Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy allegedly raped a woman while on bail accused of four other sex offences, a court has heard. Mendy, 27, was remanded in custody after appearing
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The women who set up the first women’s refuges in the UK in the 1970s changed the world. They saved the lives of many women. And the projects and political
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The number of grooming crimes in Scotland has risen by 80% in the last five years to the highest on record, according to newly obtained figures. Police Scotland data released
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The number of online grooming crimes recorded by police has risen sharply in the last three years, the NSPCC warned as it urged the Government to strengthen its plans for
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The head of a new fund aimed at compensating the survivors of abuse in care has been announced by the Scottish Government. Joanna McCreadie (pictured) will be chief executive of
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The lawyer representing the Duke of York’s accuser has warned against anyone ignoring the US courts as he claimed the royal’s legal team have “stonewalled” appeals for information. Virginia Giuffre
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“Sadistic” monks repeatedly abused children at two schools linked to a religious order, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has ruled. Inquiry chair Lady Smith has published her fifth case study
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Jeffrey Epstein-accuser Virginia Giuffre has started legal action against the Duke of York and said it was “past the time for him to be held to account” for allegedly sexually
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A “wicked” rapist whose 13-year-old victim became pregnant in the 1970s has been jailed decades after the crime, following a successful prosecution pursued by his victim’s daughter. Carvel Bennett (pictured),
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A survivor of child sexual exploitation (CSE) has told an independent review how social workers condoned her Islamic marriage to one of her abusers at the age of 15 and
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