Grooming gang offenders should receive full-life prison sentences, Robert Jenrick has said as he requested a review into “disgracefully short” punishments handed to three men. The shadow justice secretary told
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Seven people convicted of being part of a child abuse ring which plunged to “the depths of human depravity” were sentenced to lifelong restriction orders and warned they may never
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Two teenage girls became the “sex slaves” of a group of Asian men in Rochdale who preyed upon their vulnerabilities, a court has heard. The complainants from the age of
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Three men have appeared in court charged with rape and other offences following an investigation into the abuse of two teenage girls in Rotherham. Basharat Dad, 40, Nasser Dad, 44,
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Two people, including a man in his 90s, have been charged with multiple child sexual offences following an investigation into allegations of abuse at a children’s home more than 30
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Two girls who were passed between men in a grooming gang for sex were treated as “authoresses of their own misfortune” by police and social services, a judge said, as
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A man who murdered a convicted sex offender has been jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years in prison. Anthony Gardiner (pictured), 66, of Stroud,
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A series of local reviews into grooming gangs has been announced by the Government a day after the Home Secretary was threatened with legal action over the issue. Yvette Cooper
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Survivors of sexual abuse in the UK are, sadly, all too familiar with the feeling of being exploited for the gain of others. They have often been made false promises
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A 12-year-old girl who overdosed on tablets after making an allegation of sexual assault “felt like she wasn’t believed”, her mother has told an inquest. Semina Halliwell (pictured) died on
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