4 hours ago Harrods vs Al Fayed: Can London's most famous shop survive its Jimmy Savile moment?

Everyone knew Mohamed Al Fayed was ‘a randy old sod’ — but shocking allegations of rape and sexual assault from more than 400 victims have left the nation speechless. Joe Bromley investigates whether one of London’s most believed brands can weather the storm

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6 hours ago Let’s be honest with ourselves: Cormac McCarthy groomed a teenage girl | Moira Donegan

The legendary American writer initiated a relationship with a homeless teenager. Don’t put a romantic spin on itAugusta Britt, now 64, says that she met the novelist Cormac McCarthy in 1976 beside a motel pool in Arizona. McCarthy, who died last year, was 42 at the time. Britt was 16. Britt says that she was quasi-homeless in those years, bouncing between an abusive family home and a series of abusive foster homes, and used to go to the motel so that she could shower in the pool’s changing rooms without fear of men following her into the foster home bathrooms to sexually assault her.Britt says that when McCarthy saw her at the poolside he asked about a gun in a holster at her hip, and that she described some of her history of abuse to him and said that she’d stolen the gun from a foster...

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6 hours ago 90 victims identified in new sexual assault claims against late billionaire Mohamed Al

90 victims identified in new sexual assault claims against late billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, say London  The Times of India

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8 hours ago 'Conor McGregor is idolised and trolls say I deserved sex assault – women are scared to speak'

EXCLUSIVE: A sexual assault survivor has slammed social media users who are backing Conor McGregor despite the disgraced fighter being found responsible for assaulting a woman in a civil court rape case

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15 hours ago I had two harrowing experiences in toilets that made me certain pushing gender

The sexual assault - sudden and menacing - had happened abroad in a unisex toilet at a restaurant more than three decades earlier.

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19 hours ago TV botox doctor who starred on Channel Five reality show '10 Years Younger in 10 days' appears in court accused of sexually assaulting woman in his apartment

Dr Tapan Patel, 52, appeared before Westminster magistrates' court charged with assaulting a female by penetration with a part of a body or thing.

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23 hours ago Detective denies forcing woman into doorway and sexually assaulting her

Samuel Garside claimed the act was consensual

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24 hours ago Conor McGregor's fiance lashes out at his accuser after he was found liable for sexual assault

A jury found that the mixed martial arts fighter sexually assaulted Nikita Hand in a Dublin hotel in December 2018

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25 hours ago Dad forced daughter into sex acts for 7 years but convinced her it was a stranger

Warning: sensitive content. Charlene Masterson discovered her abuser was actually her own father after seven years of sexual assault and blackmail in their family home

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