A hospital electrician has admitted murdering then sexually assaulting two women decades before carrying out dozens of sex attacks on corpses in mortuaries. David Fuller, 67, pleaded guilty to murdering
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A victim of a monk who was jailed for seven years after being found guilty of sexually abusing boys over two decades has said the sentence “couldn’t ever be long
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Police Scotland has been told that “urgent work” is needed to tackle “widely held problematic attitudes around sexual violence” amongst officers. Rape Crisis Scotland made the plea as it published
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The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has announced it will begin hearing evidence into the abuse of children in foster care next spring. It will hold public hearings which will include
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The redress scheme for victims of abuse while in care will be backed by a “substantial financial contribution” from the Scottish Government, John Swinney has said. The Deputy First Minister
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Women serving in the UK military face a considerable risk of emotional bullying, sexual harassment and physical assault, a study has found. Those who are younger, have held the rank
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Scotland’s largest council has been ordered to pay more than £1.3 million to a man who was abused for years as a child by his foster carer. The Court of
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Police have been asked to urgently assess the scale of drink spiking at nightclubs and parties amid a rise in reports and claims some people have been drugged by injection.
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For three weeks last autumn, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard disturbing evidence from Lord Janner’s alleged victims about their ordeals. The alleged abuse was largely meted out
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Children who reported being sexually abused by the late Labour grandee Lord Janner were “let down by institutional failings”, a damning inquiry into police, prosecution and social services responses to
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