53 h. ago Serial killer imprisoned women as sex slaves and forced them to eat victims' bodies

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Gary Michael Heidnik, who was known as the 'Butcher of Philadelphia', was a serial rapist and murderer who kept multiple women as sex slaves in his basement torture chamber

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53 h. ago Serial killer kept sex slaves in torture dungeon and forced them to eat victims

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Gary Michael Heidnik raped and tortured six women in a hidden torture chamber in his basement, killing two and forcing the survivors to eat the remains

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3 d. ago Coronation Street director reveals major changes to ITV soap for special episode

As Coronation Street confirms a special episode that focuses on Todd Grimshaw and Theo Silverton's domestic abuse plot, director Matt Hilton shared all on the filming challenges the crew faced

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3 d. ago Coronation Street spoilers reveal dark Todd and Theo scenes with soap

Coronation Street is lining up a soap first of sorts with a shake-up to the usual episode format, as Todd Grimshaw and Theo Silverton's domestic abuse storyline escalates

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4 d. ago Police wait for evidence to emerge after alleged thief ‘ate Fabergé pendant’

An officer has been assigned to ‘constantly monitor the man’ and retrieve the locket

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5 d. ago Why David Lammy's plan to scrap jury trials should TERRIFY you

While welcoming efforts to lower the case backlog, Mary Prior KC said she has no idea 'where on Earth' Lammy had been given the advice to scrap juries.

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5 d. ago Urgent law change demand as vile abusers exploit bonds with pets to trap victims

Pets should be recognised by law in domestic abuse orders, MPs say, as the Government prepares to publish its violence against women and girls strategy

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6 d. ago Judges would be at risk of intimidation by criminal gangs if majority of jury trials are axed, top barrister warns

Justice Secretary David Lammy is expected to unveil plans to limit jury trials to serious offences such as murder, manslaughter, rape or terrorism.

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7 d. ago Lessons not learned after Georgia Barter driven to suicide by abuse, says her mother

Family ‘saddened’ by minister’s response to London coroner’s concerns over police database accessGeorgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partnerThe family of a woman judged to have been unlawfully killed by her partner after she took her own life following years of domestic abuse has said “lessons have still not been learnt” after the government indicated it would not make changes to how officers use the police national database.An inquest earlier this year found that Georgia Barter, 32, experienced years of abuse at the hands of Thomas Bignell.• In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123, or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, you can call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Man got girl, 14, pregnant after raping victims as she was forced to abort baby

Plymouth man Jack Westlake, 21, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting four girls under 16, with one victim becoming pregnant and requiring a termination

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9 d. ago Pair jailed for nearly 50 years after sickening axe attack on busy A2

Esmatullah Paktiawa and Dawood Khan forced their victims' car to stop before carrying out the sickening assault

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1 week ago White House shooting suspect identified as Afghan national after 'targeted' attack

Two National Guard members were shot near the White House in a targeted attack, with an Afghan national named as the alleged shooter who was reportedly lying in wait, according to US media reports

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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,...

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1 week ago Woman who suffered 'decade of hell' at hands of violent ex hits out as thug avoids jail

David Gillan, of Kilwinning, was found guilty over a campaign of domestic abuse against Shannon Muir.

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1 week ago A third of all rape charges linked to domestic abuse, new data shows

Shock data unveils grim link between various offences against women and girls

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1 week ago Four police officers face misconduct probe over handling of abuse allegation in case of woman who was found dead in a car boot

Harshita Brella, 24, reported to Northamptonshire Police on 29 August last year that she had suffered domestic abuse by her then husband Pankaj Lamba.

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1 week ago Inside Coronation Street star Gareth Pierce's life from real accent to wife and daughter

Coronation Street's Todd Grimshaw is currently at the centre of a harrowing domestic abuse storyline, but what do we know about the actor who plays him, Gareth Pierce?

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1 week ago Jilted woman rolls eyes in court as it hears how she trashed ex

Joanne Butler's victim was forced to install cameras at his home during the campaign of harrasment

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2 w. ago Respected doctor with a 'perfect' family reveals how she was drugged, put on a psychiatric ward and given electroconvulsive therapy...all because she reported her husband's years of domestic abuse

A once high-functioning paediatrician has revealed how a harrowing descent into mental illness, triggered by years of domestic abuse, led her to undergo electric shock therapy.

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2 w. ago Swastika graffiti daubed on walls outside church 'deplorable' says council leader

'I hope the police can bring the perpetrators to justice and they get taken through the courts system and the full weight of the law brought against them'

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