The public should be excluded from serious sex trials as part of a radical overhaul in Northern Ireland, a retired senior judge proposed. Sir John Gillen is leading an independent
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A paedophile who was suspected of child grooming offences joined the police force to target vulnerable victims and went on to rape a 13-year-old girl. “Selfish and cruel” police constable
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A private care home has been convicted and heavily fined for failing to protect two vulnerable young adults from a sexually “predatory” resident. Hillgreen Care were required to provide round-the-clock
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Thirty people will go trial charged with offences relating to the alleged sexual exploitation of children in Huddersfield, a judge has ruled. Twenty five of the defendants appeared at Leeds
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A gang of six men have been given jail sentences of up to 23 years after sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in Rotherham. A judge told the defendants they “perpetrated,
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A woman and her ex-partner have been jailed for 10 years each for allowing the death of a toddler who was tied face-down to a “cage bed”. Lauren Coyle and
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Thongs and placards were held aloft in Belfast on Thursday in solidarity with protests in the Irish Republic earlier this week over how rape trials are conducted. A recent case
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A pharmacist accused of murdering his wife hoped to cash in a £2 million life insurance policy and set up a new life in Australia with the man he really
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An internet troll who tormented the families of dead young people by posting sickening messages on Facebook tribute pages has been jailed for 14 months. Paul Hind, 38, called Olivia
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A woman whose husband took their daughter and left her at his family home in Libya is preparing for the latest round of a six-year court fight to get the
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