A “wicked” stepmother and a “pitiless” father have been convicted of cruelly abusing and killing his six-year-old son. Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at Coventry
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A stepmother accused of murdering a six-year-old boy has pleaded guilty part-way through her trial to cruelly beating the child in the days before he suffered a fatal head injury.
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A one-minute silence will be held at the Scottish Parliament for all women killed by men this year. The event has been organised on the 30th anniversary of the UN’s
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A police force has apologised to two women whose reports of domestic abuse at the hands of an officer were ignored. Gwent Police issued a statement on Wednesday saying it
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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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