A specialist charity working to support stalking victims in Scotland will receive government funding for the first time. Action Against Stalking will use the funding to develop and deliver training
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A new safety and wellbeing service has been launched for women in Scotland selling or exchanging sex or sexual activity online. The service, called Click, aims to respond to the
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Victims of stalking, harassment, child sexual abuse and other sex crimes will be able to appeal the sentence given to their perpetrators if they think it is too lenient. More
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Officers have been told not to hand out fixed penalty notices in stalking and harassment cases after teenager Shana Grice was fined for wasting police time before she was murdered.
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Stalking victims are consistently being failed because of a “widespread failure to recognise” it, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales has said. Dame Vera Baird (pictured) said those at
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Police closed the case of a “frightened” 19-year-old woman who had repeatedly reported her stalker without properly investigating before she was murdered, a disciplinary hearing has been told. Shana Grice
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A constable accused of ignoring a 19-year-old woman who repeatedly reported her stalker to police before she was murdered is to face a public disciplinary hearing. Shana Grice (pictured) reported
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A police force failed to cross-reference almost half the incidents involving a serial stalker who drove his ex-partner to take her own life by bombarding her with abusive voicemails, texts
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Stalking and harassment offences are not being investigated by police consistently or effectively, according to a report. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) published its
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The Government will introduce “world first” internet safety laws designed to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online, new proposals claim. A white paper on
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