A woman who made a string of false rape claims and sexual assault allegations cost the police more than £250,000 and around 6,400 hours of work. Jemma Beale (pictured) was
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Paedophile rock star Ian Watkins could have been caught and brought to justice nearly four years earlier if police had properly investigated reports from a series of informants, the Independent
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Almost 100 suspected trafficking victims have been intercepted by a specialist border force at Glasgow Airport, it has been revealed. The Home Office Border Force team – trained to spot
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The police force investigating allegations former prime minister Sir Edward Heath was a paedophile will pass its findings to the national child sex abuse inquiry. The Wiltshire Police probe, called
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A mother will face trial accused of sexually abusing her daughter after the girl’s father pleaded guilty to raping the youngster on a number of occasions. The woman, who cannot
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Sarah Champion has resigned as shadow women and equalities secretary and apologised for her “extremely poor choice of words” in a newspaper article about child abuse. The Labour MP warned
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Two women have promised to champion the cause of Welsh victims after being appointed to advise the public inquiry into child sexual abuse. May Baxter-Thornton (left) from Newport and Emma
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Britain’s largest police force has failed to achieve any significant improvement in the quality of child protection investigations several months after a watchdog first raised the alarm, a report warns.
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People are not raising potential cases of child abuse as they fear being labelled racist, according to a Labour frontbencher. Shadow women and equalities secretary Sarah Champion said there is
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Paying £10,000 to a convicted child rapist to infiltrate a paedophile gang “crossed a line”, it has been claimed. Jim Gamble, who set up the Government’s taskforce to fight child
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