An elderly care home resident who repeatedly stabbed a member of staff has been jailed for 13 years and three months. Pensioner Fred Butcher was armed with a knife and
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A court case brought against four staff accused of threatening and assaulting children at a scandal-hit G4S-run youth jail has collapsed. Team leaders Anthony Dance, 28, Gareth Evans, 27, Matthew
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A youth jail manager has criticised the BBC, claiming he is “on the verge of bankruptcy” after being sacked when allegations of abuse at a scandal-hit G4S-run youth jail surfaced
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An older woman was left in temporary accommodation that was ‘at best shabby, dirty and in disrepair,’ miles away from her GP and social networks because Rother District Council had
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The adoptive mother of a baby who fought for justice after he was so violently assaulted he lost both his legs has told how “horrified” she was to learn his
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A troubled boy has been placed in secure accommodation hundreds of miles from home because of a shortage of specialist units for children, a family court judge has said. Judge
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A Detective Constable has been sacked for looking up information on a domestic abuse victim for her partner’s friend who turned out to be a suspect in the case. Jessica
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Two young men who bludgeoned a homeless Romanian to death with a meat cleaver have been sentenced to life in prison. Razvan Sirbu, 21, was left with a broken skull,
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Violence and self-harm have increased at a youth jail, a watchdog report has warned. It found one in four boys felt unsafe at Cookham Wood young offender institution (YOI) near
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A three-year-old girl was hidden in the boot of a car with two adults as a gang tried to smuggle Albanian nationals into the UK. Six people have been jailed
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