20 h. ago Gloria Estefan: ‘My abuser told me he’d kill my mother if I told anyone’

The Cuban-American superstar talks to Fiona Sturges about her childhood abuser and her father’s disappearance, the ‘inhumanity’ of Trump’s America, and why her new album is her masterpiece... plus why she’s catching up on ‘Stranger Things’

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4 d. ago Struggling mother who took drugs to help her sleep fought street battle with police she believed were kidnappers come to kill and bury her with a shovel

Ashleigh Marsh, 26, had the episode when she saw a shovel in the boot of the police vehicle and kicked one female constable in the chest before kicking out at other officers.

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6 d. ago Holloway review – brave women go back to prison to unlock their stories

In this powerful documentary, six former inmates revisit their old cells to reflect on the childhood trauma and domestic abuse that led them to prisonYou can be told the statistics: 30% of women in prison spent time in care as children, and 70% have been the victim of domestic abuse. But what this powerful documentary from Sophie Compton and Daisy-May Hudson (the latter of whom is the director of just-released film Lollipop) does is to demonstrate the cruelty and injustice of a system that incarcerates the vulnerable.Shot in 2021, it follows six women returning to HMP Holloway in London before demolition began a year later. In the first scenes, they walk back into the prison, some into their old cells. The building is abandoned, ivy creeps up through the floorboards, but it’s still Holloway: “Fuck, I remember this smell,” says one. During a week-long workshop the women – brave and unfailingly articulate – share their stories. All of them experienced trauma in childhood, most masked ...

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7 d. ago Andy Burnham's child sex abuse inquiry team 'resigned' after authorities 'lawyered up', MPs told

Baroness Louise Casey said that authorities in Greater Manchester were 'lawyering up' to fight over what data would be shared

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1 week ago Brian Wilson: the Beach Boys visionary who changed music forever

The troubled musician was a genius whose work was the envy of generations of fellow artists. Fiona Sturges pays tribute, and recalls her encounter with Wilson where he told her about his fear of failure, his abusive father, and the voices in his head

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2 w. ago Tot's final weeks full of 'misery' before 'murder' as grandparents blame his mum

A jury has been told how little Ethan Ives-Griffiths was the object of “abuse and neglect” and treated with “casual brutality” by those who were meant to care for him

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3 w. ago Baby’s cause of death revealed as family say the puppy originally blamed for her killing has not been put down

‘I did not kill my child’, the baby’s mother Lillian Burton protested days after her daughter’s death

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3 w. ago Stylist testifies that ‘frightened’ Cassie Ventura wanted to jump off hotel balcony to escape Diddy

Deonte Nash told jurors about how the music mogul threatened, abused and controlled Ventura’s life and career

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4 w. ago 'I wanted to end my life at 27': Selling Sunset's Amanza Smith, 48, opens up about childhood abuse and addiction battle that led to suicidal thoughts

The TV personality told Mail columnist Bryony Gordon about the 'mental, physical and sexual abuse' she suffered as a child, which drove her to substance abuse in adulthood.

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