Former Liberal leader Lord Steel has denied “hiding his head in the sand” over child abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith. Lord Steel said he asked the
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Boris Johnson has been urged to apologise to victims of child abuse after claiming millions of pounds of police funding is being “spaffed up the wall” investigating historic allegations. The
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Five officers have been convicted of physical abuse on young prisoners at a detention centre following one of the UK’s biggest police investigations of its kind, it can now be
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No sufficient evidence of police misconduct has been found in almost all of the operations into alleged child sex abuse linked to Westminster, an inquiry has heard. The police watchdog
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An inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse linked to Westminster is looking at “extremely serious issues” and aims to address “outstanding questions of public concern”, its opening day has
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The Westminster strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is due to open on Monday. Public hearings into allegations of child sex abuse and exploitation involving public figures
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Sex crimes have risen while violent crimes have fallen, Police Scotland’s latest figures indicate. The “cruel and unnatural” treatment of children highlighted by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was said
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Tributes have been paid to the “candour and courage” of witnesses who have given evidence of abuse they suffered while in residential childcare. The comments came from lawyers for Quarriers,
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Children lived in fear due to the “widespread abuse” of potentially thousands of boys and girls in care homes, an inquiry into child abuse has been told. Decades of abuse
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A former youth football manager described by a sheriff as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” has been jailed for four years for abusing boys. Frank Cairney, 83, was found guilty
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