The prison sentence for the teenager who abducted, raped and murdered Alesha MacPhail has been reduced by three years. Aaron Campbell (pictured) took the six-year-old from her bed at her
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A gang of nine men and one woman cynically groomed vulnerable girls in the Huddersfield area and treated them as “objects to be used and abused at will”, a court
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The Prime Minister should explain to the victims of historical institutional abuse why new laws granting them compensation will not be debated during this parliamentary session, an MP has said.
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A former youth football coach and scout whose car crashed into a tree on the day he was due to go on trial on historical sex abuse charges took his
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Women who believe they have experienced sexism are three times more likely to report depression, new research suggests. A fifth of women (19.5%) reported having been sexually discriminated against in
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Northern Ireland’s top judge has branded as shocking the ongoing failure to compensate victims of historic abuse in the region. Sir Declan Morgan said the delay exemplifies how the Stormont
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Black cab rapist John Worboys has forced one of his victims to give evidence in court in a bid to avoid a life sentence. Worboys, 62, was jailed indefinitely for
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A care worker who used his Manchester United connections to groom children has been jailed for 15 years. Bruce McLean, 62, was sentenced at Chester Crown Court on Monday for
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Authorities were “totally ineffectual” or “wholly indifferent” to the plight of sexually exploited teenage girls in Rotherham, a judge said as he jailed five men for between four and 24
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Victims of institutional abuse in Northern Ireland have not given up hope of progress, one campaigner has said. Jon McCourt said draft legislation ensuring compensation for those harmed over many
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