Lord Ahmed has appeared in court charged with historic sexual offences against two children. The Rotherham-based peer was charged earlier this month with two counts of attempted rape and one
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People are inclined to believe child sexual exploitation does not go on in their area, according to Barnardo’s Scotland. The charity carried out research into the public’s understanding of the
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Former Liberal leader Lord Steel has been suspended from the Liberal Democrats, pending an investigation into evidence he gave to an inquiry about child abuse allegations against former MP Sir
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The Honours Committee received anonymous allegations of child sexual abuse against Jimmy Savile in 1998, an inquiry has heard. The Westminster strand of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
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A Catholic priest has been jailed for nine years and 11 months after abusing six children in the 1970s, leaving one of his victims “in fractured pieces”. Francis McDermott, 75,
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Essex Police has apologised to victims after two rogue police officers were convicted of sabotaging child abuse investigations. Detective constables Sharon Patterson, 49, and Lee Pollard, 47, (pictured) forged documents,
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Former Liberal leader Lord Steel has denied “hiding his head in the sand” over child abuse allegations against former Rochdale MP Sir Cyril Smith. Lord Steel said he asked the
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Police have released images of the knife used by a man who raped a woman at knifepoint on wasteland in Fife. The 20-year-old victim was walking along Herriot Crescent and
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Boris Johnson has been urged to apologise to victims of child abuse after claiming millions of pounds of police funding is being “spaffed up the wall” investigating historic allegations. The
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A short series of animations designed to inform children as young as four about online dangers has been launched by the National Crime Agency (NCA) in response to the growing
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