A Conservative MP found to have been raped by her politician ex-husband says she will campaign for victims of domestic violence. Kate Griffiths, MP for Burton in Staffordshire, waived her
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A serial abuser of women who fatally stabbed his girlfriend in the neck has been jailed for at least 23 years. “Self-obsessed” Taye Francis had convictions for rape and violence
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A police force in Wales has confirmed it is reinvestigating allegations of historic child abuse on Caldey Island after a man reported being gang raped by monks. Kevin O’Connell said
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A healthcare professional has been charged with sexually assaulting seven women at a hospital. Lancashire Police said Hernando Puno, 51, was charged with nine counts of sexual assault relating to
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A former pupil who was physically restrained and abused by a teacher has told an inquiry the trauma he suffered left him fearing for his life and that it will
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The “inertia” of Southampton’s board allowed Bob Higgins free to continue to abuse boys at the club, causing them “incalculable” damage, an independent review has concluded. Children’s charity Barnardo’s said
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MSP Michelle Thomson says “too little has changed” since she spoke publicly about being raped at the age of 14. In 2016, while an MP, Ms Thomson gave a speech
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One of the UK’s biggest police forces has been told to improve the way it manages sex offenders to control the risk to the public. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary
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Female detainees were forced to mix with men with a history of sexual violence against women in an immigration centre due to Covid restrictions, a report has found. Concerns have
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Children at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland were sexually abused and subjected to sadistic treatment that “destroyed childhoods”, an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child
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