1 hour ago Care home boss who abused young females then fled to India blames his victims

Naijil Paul fled to India before he was due to stand trial in 2019 accused of sex offence charges. Now he has been jailed for nearly eight years after being extradited back to the UK

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44 h. ago Senior DWP civil servant blames victims for carer’s allowance scandal

Neil Couling said failings by individual claimants ‘at the heart’ of crisis, despite a report finding DWP shortcomings ‘unacceptable’ One of the most senior civil servants in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has placed the blame for the carer’s allowance benefits crisis on victims, many of who have been left with life-changing debts.In an internal blogpost written for Whitehall colleagues, Neil Couling, the director general of DWP services, said individual failings by carers were “at the heart” of the issue that has been likened to the Post Office Horizon scandal. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Care home boss stole £6k from pensioner and blew it on bingo

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, was found guilty of fraud and theft

Economics

50 h. ago Scheming care home boss jailed for forging pensioner's will to steal £178k

The document was riddled with different handwriting and coloured pens

Economics

68 h. ago Care home boss 'groomed and isolated' patient to steal £178,000 from her will

Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, was jailed for more than five years after she forged the will of 85-year-old Rita Barnsley to steal her lifesavings in one of the UK's biggest elder fraud cases

Economics

68 h. ago Care home boss who earned £19k by running 'one man band operation' finding jobs for illegal immigrants is jailed for two years

From 2017 till 2018, Benoy Thomas (pictured), 50, took 'advantage of his contacts in southern India ' and knowingly employed 13 Indian nationals who were in the UK illegally.

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3 d. ago How three Uyghur brothers fled China – to spend 12 years in an Indian prison

Arrested in 2013 on India’s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing’s ‘genocide’ against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been imprisoned indefinitely ever since thenOn the evening of 12 June 2013, according to court documents, three “Chinese intruders” were arrested by the Indian army in Sultan Chusku, a remote and uninhabited desert area in the mountainous northern region of Ladakh.The three Thursun brothers – Adil, 23, Abdul Khaliq, 22 and Salamu, 20 – had found themselves in an area of unmarked and disputed borders after a 13-day journey by bus and foot over the rugged Himalayan terrain through China’s Xinjiang province, which borders Ladakh. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago 'Dinosaur' soldiers who tell filthy jokes to female colleagues face court martial

EXCLUSIVE: While soldiers fight to keep Britain safe, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal that many female soldiers are being subjected to horrific abuse disguised as "jokes"

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1 week ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney pummels a boxing pioneer’s story into lifeless cliche

Underpowered David Michôd film fails to land the story of the groundbreaking 90s female boxing champion and the horrendous abuse she faced at home An uninspired and undirected performance from Sydney Sweeney means there’s a fatal lack of power in this movie from director and co-writer David Michôd. It manages to be unsubtle without being powerful. His subject is Christy Salters Martin, who under the grinning tutelage of Don King became the world’s most successful female boxing champion in the 90s and 00s but faced a misogynist nightmare outside the ring.The film fails to deliver the power of the traditional boxing movie, or the real importance of a story about domestic abuse and coercive control, or the sensory detail of true crime. It relies on the simple fact of a woman pioneeringly taking on what had once been solely a man’s sport and relapses into cliche. Christy, with her frizzy hair and brown contact lenses, doesn’t seem to plausibly develop as a character throughout the film,...

Politics

1 week ago Rachel Reeves ‘right’ about misogyny in politics, says James Cleverly

Rachel Reeves is “right” about misogyny in politics, James Cleverly said while discussing the “abuse” he has seen his female colleagues endure.

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2 w. ago Group of Epstein abuse survivors say they have received death threats

In a signed statement, 28 victims say they are bracing for blame for their abuse and threats of harmA group of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse have warned they have received death threats and are worried about an escalation as they wait for the release of the files related to the late paedophile financier.In a statement titled “What we’re bracing for”, the women said they had received threats of harm and asked police to investigate and protect them. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Attacked no matter what they do’: why female politicians face relentless cycle of abuse

Assault on Mexican president highlights abuse faced by women in politics and ‘reinforces patriarchal boundaries’The brief and deeply unsettling encounter lasted just a few seconds, sparking outrage across Mexico and beyond.But for those who have spent years tracking women in politics, the incident in which a drunken man attempted to kiss Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, on the neck and grope her was shocking but not entirely surprising. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Conwoman care home boss facing jail over fake will 'drugged colleague by lacing her tea with diazepam and ran £500 dog rescue scam'

Fraudster Jamiel Slaney-Summers, 65, tried to snatch 85-year-old Rita Barnsley's £175,000 lifesavings by drawing up the 'dodgy' document on the day she died in 2021.

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4 w. ago After British ICC chief issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu, mysterious claims emerged that he sexually abused a female colleague... Is he a vile sexual predator? Or target of a Mossad dark

Until last year, Karim Khan (pictured) was little known outside a charmed circle of international lawyers and globe-trotting diplomats.

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4 w. ago After Karim Khan issued an arrest warrant against Netanyahu, mysterious claims emerged that he sexually abused a female colleague... Is he a vile sexual predator? Or target of a Mossad dark

Until last year, Karim Khan (pictured) was little known outside a charmed circle of international lawyers and globe-trotting diplomats.

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