A “valuable opportunity” was missed to prosecute Rochdale’s former Liberal MP Cyril Smith during his lifetime in the late 1990s, a child sexual abuse inquiry found. The Independent Inquiry into
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The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse plans to talk to victims of grooming in Telford following claims that vulnerable teenagers were targeted over a number of years. The inquiry
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A senior Sinn Fein politician has revealed a notorious paedophile priest physically abused him when he was a schoolboy and tried to sexually groom him. Conor Murphy has recounted how
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An “evil and dangerous” man who raped and sexually assaulted blind children while he was a schoolboy has been given a lifelong restriction order by a judge. From the age
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has emotionally told an inquiry how “ashamed” he is of the Church in the wake of the child sex abuse inquiry. The Most Rev Justin Welby
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Research by a team of academics at the University of Huddersfield has alerted the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) to the probability that the number of offenders who
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It would be “constitutionally inappropriate” if the UK Government stepped in to approve the payment of compensation to victims of historical abuse in Northern Ireland, Karen Bradley has said. The
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Theresa May has said it is important that an inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Telford gets under way as quickly possible. The Prime Minister said “we have all been
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Child sexual exploitation in Telford has received a “relative lack” of reporting compared to “more gossipy types of scandal”, Commons Leader Andrea Leadsom has said. Concerns about the “priorities and
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The leader of Telford and Wrekin Council will call for the Home Secretary to launch an independent public inquiry into child sexual exploitation amid claims of up to 1,000 abuse
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