The Metropolitan Police is investigating multiple sex offence allegations following news reports about Russell Brand. On Monday, the force said it had received a “number of allegations of sexual offences
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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was initially hampered by an unwillingness to acknowledge structural abuse, it has been told. Professor Kenneth Norrie (pictured), an expert in law from Strathclyde University,
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A former “house mother” who abused children in her care in the 1960s and 1970s has been sentenced to 300 hours of community service. Retired social worker Euphemia Ramsay, 76,
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Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has told an inquiry of sexual abuse he endured at Edinburgh Academy as he compared a teacher to Jimmy Savile. Mr Campbell, 62, attended Edinburgh Academy, a
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An accused former teacher was supported in a bid to adopt a child by a psychiatrist who believed he could “cure him” – and intervened to stop him being sacked
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A former Durham coach has admitted sexually assaulting a teenage player after being convicted of similar offences against young cricketers on four previous occasions. Michael Strange (pictured), 63, appeared via
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The Church of England has drafted in the former head of the child sex abuse inquiry to get its safeguarding “back on track” after a row which saw a panel
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A Scout leader who was accused by two women of sexually assaulting them when they were teenagers took his own life, an inquest has confirmed. Phillip Perks’ (pictured) body was
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A national compensation scheme for victims of child sexual abuse will be introduced in England, the Home Secretary has said. But opposition MPs urged the Home Secretary not to delay
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The former Archbishop of York has been told to step down from active ministry after a review found he failed to act on a victim’s disclosure of historic child sex
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