Jurors at the rape trial of two Irish rugby internationals could be sent out to deliberate on their verdict on Tuesday, a court has heard. Judge Patricia Smyth told the
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Detectives have released a CCTV still of a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. The schoolgirl was waiting for a bus at around 4.20pm on January 11 on
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Victims of sexual harassment at work need better protection because their voices have been silenced by “corrosive” cultures, a report has said. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) called
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A man who runs a Facebook page with tens of thousands of followers has been jailed for 21 months for a seven-month stalking campaign of “psychological warfare” against a woman
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Two social workers who say an inquiry report into allegations of child abuse on the British overseas territory of St Helena destroyed their professional reputations have taken legal action. Claire
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Emotion and prejudice have no part to play in deciding whether two Irish rugby internationals are guilty of rape, jurors at their trial have been told. The panel of eight
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The internet was used to commit at least a fifth of all sexual crimes recorded in Scotland last year, a new report on cyber crime has estimated. The study, published
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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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Hundreds of Britons were arrested for child sex offences overseas in the last five years, new figures have shown, amid concerns the numbers are just the “tip of the iceberg”.
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Nearly 40 women who were sexually exploited and forced to live in unsafe cave-like houses have been freed from a gang of human traffickers. It follows an international operation involving
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