Reforms aiming to protect mental health patients from unsafe restraint have come into force following the death of a 23-year-old man. New guidance has been introduced under “Seni’s law”, in
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Two police officers who took pictures of murdered sisters for a “cheap thrill” have been jailed for two years and nine months. Pc Deniz Jaffer and Pc Jamie Lewis (pictured)
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The Government has announced it will invest £780 million in drug treatment in an effort to break the “cycle of crime” fuelled by addiction. The money will go towards the
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Boris Johnson is pledging to break up 2,000 “county lines” drugs gangs in a £300 million drive to rid the country’s streets of illegal narcotics. The Government is to set
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A serial abuser of women who fatally stabbed his girlfriend in the neck has been jailed for at least 23 years. “Self-obsessed” Taye Francis had convictions for rape and violence
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The Government has announced a major review into the circumstances which led to the murder of six-year-old Arthur Labinjo-Hughes. It aims to determine what improvements are needed by the agencies
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A “wicked” stepmother has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 29 years for cruelly abusing, poisoning and murdering her partner’s six-year-old son. Arthur Labinjo-Hughes was left with
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The Government will not hesitate to take action off the back of a review into failings around the death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Number 10 has said. The six-year-old was murdered
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A six-year-old boy murdered by his stepmother “was failed by the very authorities” tasked with keeping him safe, his grandmother has told a court ahead of the killers’ sentencing. Arthur
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The wife of a former soldier who was beaten by her husband and whose life was in “chaos” has been jailed for life to serve a minimum of nine years
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