A toddler who was sharing an overcrowded home with two dogs must go into council care, a family court judge has decided. The house where the little boy, who is
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A 94-year-old man enlisted the help of his family to take his own life, an inquest heard. Ralph Snell died “peacefully” at his home in Lymington, Hampshire, in January this
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A care worker jailed for life for the “brutal and ferocious” murder of 13-year-old Lucy McHugh had previously been detained for holding a group of youngsters and staff hostage at
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A probe is under way into how claims of abuse against 13-year-old Lucy McHugh were handled by social services in the months before she was murdered. The trial of Stephen
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Care worker Stephen Nicholson has been found guilty of the “execution-style” murder of schoolgirl Lucy McHugh who he killed to prevent her revealing his year-long abuse of her. The 25-year-old
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A petition has been launched to change the law which prevents alleged sexual abusers being prosecuted for the same crime after they have been acquitted. A lawyer acting for six
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The assistant head teacher at a school attended by Lucy McHugh has told a court that social services decided to take no further action after she raised concerns about the
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A lawyer representing alleged victims of predatory paedophile Bob Higgins is calling for the law to be changed to allow the ex-football coach to be tried for further offences. The
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“Pure evil” paedophile ex-coach Bob Higgins has been jailed for 24 years and three months for sexually abusing schoolboy football players during a 25-year period. The 66-year-old, who ran the
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Victims have lined up to describe a “conveyor belt of abuse” suffered at the hands of “pure evil” coach Bob Higgins who sexually abused schoolboy football players over a 25-year
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