A male survivor of domestic abuse has spoken of how he was “days away from death” after being abused physically and psychologically by his partner. Alex Skeel, 22, has urged
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Northern Ireland’s Justice Department is expected to launch a review of how serious sexual offences are addressed. Ireland and Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding were cleared of
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The Duchess of Cornwall has issued a rallying call in the fight against domestic abuse. At the closing session of the Commonwealth Women’s Forum, Camilla addressed the “corrosive silence” surrounding
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GPS tracking technology which warns police and victims when a domestic abuser enters an exclusion zone would provide “vital security for victims”, MPs have heard. Liz Saville Roberts, Plaid Cymru’s
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A police force has been fined £130,000 for losing disks containing a video interview with an alleged rape victim. Humberside Police was handed the six-figure penalty by the Information Commissioner’s
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A fraudster who posed as Grenfell Tower survivor has been called “the worst of the human race” by real victims of the tragedy as she was jailed for four-and-a-half years.
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A legal challenge to overturn reporting restrictions on the rape trial of two Ireland rugby internationals will go before a judge next week. Northern Ireland’s Lord Chief Justice, Sir Declan
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Stuart Olding has apologised for the hurt caused to the woman who had accused him of rape. In a statement, read by his solicitor outside Belfast Crown Court after his
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The outgoing chairman of the Parole Board said there are “very troubling questions” about the body’s independence after he was forced to quit over the John Worboys case. Professor Nick
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High Court judges who overturned a decision to release black cab rapist John Worboys from prison said a number of “striking features” of his case “give rise to concern”. They
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