Calls to the national domestic abuse helpline rose by more than a fifth during the coronavirus pandemic, figures show. There were 49,756 calls to the helpline, run by Refuge, in
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One of the UK’s biggest police forces has been told to improve the way it manages sex offenders to control the risk to the public. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
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Danny Dyer is to star in a short film directed by a 17-year-old in a bid to raise money for mental health charities. Stepping Stone is written, directed and produced
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A two-year-old girl who died weeks into lockdown after suffering a serious brain injury was probably killed by her adoptive father, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Williams
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A serial abuser of women has been found guilty of fatally stabbing his girlfriend in the neck. “Self-obsessed” Taye Francis already had convictions for rape and violence when he killed
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Thousands of victims of domestic abuse are being “badly let down” by the legal aid system and forced to remain with their abusers because they cannot afford representation in court,
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A stepmother accused of cruelly abusing, poisoning and murdering a six-year-old boy has told a jury she blamed the child for problems in her increasingly troubled relationship with his father.
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Preventing violence against women and girls should be considered as much of a priority as counter-terrorism, a police watchdog has said. It came as a root-and-branch examination by Her Majesty’s
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Maternity and specialist support services must engage more with fathers to help prevent vulnerable babies being seriously injured or killed, a child safeguarding review has found. Insufficient attention to men
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Domestic abuse charges reported to prosecutors in Scotland are at their highest level in five years, with cases rising during the first coronavirus lockdown. Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
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