A former soldier’s head and hands were held down on a hot cooker and he was lied to about his real family, an inquiry has heard. Stewart Wilson was one
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Victims of grooming gangs in Oldham have received official apologies after a major report said police and the local council failed to protect some youngsters from sexual exploitation but concluded
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A woman who was repeatedly sexually abused has told an inquiry she was beaten with a broom handle after telling the very people who were meant to protect her. Shirley
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Former Tory MP Imran Ahmad Khan has been jailed for 18 months as a judge said he faced “a day of reckoning” for groping a 15-year-old boy in 2008. The
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Jimmy Savile was one of the UK’s most serious serial sexual predators. Over several decades the television personality groomed and abused up to 1,000 boys and girls in TV studios
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The true scale of alleged child abuse in local authority foster care may never be revealed due to historic issues with record keeping, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard. Opening
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British child migrants who were physically and sexually abused as children at a notorious orphanage farm in rural Australia have had their long fight for justice immortalised in a new
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Three victims of grooming gangs in Rochdale have received “substantial” damages and a personal apology from the chief constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP). The women met Stephen Watson, the
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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry will begin hearing evidence into the abuse of children in foster care in May. During the first phase of the foster care case study, which
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Victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland have been told they were failed by the state during a long-awaited public apology at Stormont. Survivors watched on in the Assembly
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