Victims of revenge pornography withdrawing from legal action is “starting to become a problem”, Labour has said. Shadow solicitor general Nick Thomas-Symonds (pictured) also called for better data collection on
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Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale has revealed she received three death threats in six years as she backed a campaign urging Twitter to do more to stop online abuse.
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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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A sexual offences liaison officer who found a rape victim in his care “attractive” has been jailed after he hacked into her Facebook account and downloaded pictures of her as
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Rihanna has accused Snapchat of “intentionally” shaming victims of domestic violence and making fun of them. The singer was responding to an advert on the social media platform that asked
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Nicola Sturgeon has said she is “concerned” by the police detection rate for so-called revenge porn cases in Scotland. She said there is “still work to be done” in tackling
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Crimes will be treated as more serious if they are committed in a domestic setting under new sentencing guidelines. People who subject spouses, partners or family members to abuse will
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Shortcomings are still rife in child protection investigations mounted by Britain’s largest police force, a watchdog report reveals. An audit of cases found “significant weaknesses” remained apparent in Metropolitan Police
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The number of alleged child sexual crimes reported to police has reached a record high, a leading charity has warned. Forces in the UK recorded 64,667 sexual offences allegedly perpetrated
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A charity has urged Twitter to do more to help disabled users report hate speech against them on the site, claiming it remained too difficult to report disability-related abuse. Muscular
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