Rape complainants are planning a legal challenge after police forces introduced new consent forms asking them to hand over their mobile phones. The Centre for Women’s Justice (CWJ) said a
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Rape victims are being told they must hand over their mobile phones to police or risk prosecutions against their attackers not going ahead. Consent forms, which ask permission to access
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A father’s body has been exhumed in a bid by his family to clear his son of historical rapes. Eric McKenna, 60, was jailed for 23 years in March 2018
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Nine men have denied charges connected to the alleged child sexual exploitation of a teenage girl. The men appeared at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday charged with 15 historical offences.
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A group set up to support survivors of sexual abuse has launched a campaign to reform the need for corroboration in Scots law. It has claimed the requirement to have
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A judge in a specialist court might have to decide whether a man can keep making love to his wife of more than 20 years. The woman has learning difficulties,
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A “serial liar” who invented a string of false rape and sexual assault allegations has failed in a bid to clear her name. Jemma Beale, 27, claimed she had been
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Rape and sexual abuse support services across England and Wales have been given increased funding amid “unprecedented demand” from women for help. The Government funding package – totalling £24 million
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Campaigners have accused police of “a systemic failure” to protect victims of domestic and sexual violence in only the second super-complaint made to a national watchdog. The Centre for Women’s
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Police have released images of the knife used by a man who raped a woman at knifepoint on wasteland in Fife. The 20-year-old victim was walking along Herriot Crescent and
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