19 h. ago Pensioner who died after 'violent sexual assault' in Lancashire hospital was 'unlawfully killed'

"For someone to assault a vulnerable, relatively elderly woman in a hospital setting is really quite difficult to believe"

Events

19 h. ago Hospital sexual assault victim was unlawfully killed, says coroner

Grandmother Valerie Kneale was assaulted after she was admitted to Blackpool Victoria Hospital following a stroke in 2018. She died four days later.

Events

25 h. ago Australia’s top court denies war hero’s final appeal against finding he likely killed unarmed Afghans

A federal judge found in 2023 that Roberts-Smith, Australia’s most decorated living war veteran, likely killed non-combatants unlawfully in 2009 and 2012

Events

26 h. ago Valerie Kneale: Stroke 'played no part' as patient died of 'sexual assault'

Valerie Kneale, 75, was subjected to a fatal and "forcible sexual assault" after being admitted to Blackpool Victoria Hospital on November 12 2018 after suffering a stroke at her home in Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire

Events

50 h. ago Senior nurse was in 'utter disbelief' after female patient, 75, bled to death following sexual assault in hospital bed, inquest told

Retired clerical assistant Valerie Kneale, 75, died at Blackpool Victoria Hospital on November 16 2018, four days after she was admitted following a stroke at her home in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire.

Events

51 h. ago Valerie Kneale's nurse found stroke victim 'covered in blood' after fatal sexual assault

Matthew Pover was speaking at the inquest of Valerie Kneale, 75, who died on 16 November 2018 at Blackpool Victoria Hospital - from injuries sustained during a sexual assault, two post-mortems found

Events

2 d. ago Doctor's chilling codename for sexual fantasies with teen patient he 'fell in love' with

Dr Cian Hughes first met the girl when she was just 13 and having an operation at a children's hospital in 2011. The pair started a sexual relationship in 2015, when the girl was 17

Science

3 d. ago NADINE DORRIES: I've met Camilla. The way she's got even with her train groper is proof she leads by example

Yesterday, we learned that as a schoolgirl of 16 or 17, our future Queen was the victim of sexual assault while travelling alone on a train.

Politics

4 d. ago Queen Camilla fought off sexual assault as teenager, book claims

Valentine Low’s Power and the Palace relays story in which young Camilla ‘whacked attacker in the nuts’ on train to PaddingtonQueen Camilla was a victim of an attempted sexual assault as a teenager and used the heel of her shoe to fight off her attacker, a new book about the monarchy has claimed.According to Power and the Palace, serialised in the Sunday Times, the queen told Boris Johnson about the attack while he was mayor of London, a position he held from 2008 to 2016. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago ‘There needs to be justice,’ UN tells Israel after Gaza hospital bombing

Human rights office demands that Israeli investigation into ‘double tap’ attack that killed 20 people yields resultsMiddle East crisis – live updatesThe UN has demanded that Israel’s investigations into unlawful killings in Gaza, including its “double tap” bombing of Nasser hospital which killed 20 people, among them five journalists, yield results and ensure accountability.“There needs to be justice,” Thameen Al-Kheetan, the spokesperson for the UN’s human rights office, told reporters on Tuesday in Geneva. He added that the number of journalists killed in Gaza raised many questions about the targeting of media workers. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago UN warns Israel that its probe into IDF attack on Gaza hospital must yield actual results – Middle East crisis live

UN official says investigations have been announced before but ‘we haven’t seen results or accountability measures yet’The UN says that Israel must not only investigate alleged unlawful killings in Gaza like the hospital strike that killed 20 people, including journalists, the previous day, but also ensure those probes yield results.“There needs to be justice,” United Nations rights office spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan told AFP in Geneva, adding that the large number of media workers killed in the Gaza war “raises many, many questions about the targeting of journalists”.The Israeli authorities have, in the past, announced investigations in such killings.It’s of course the responsibility of Israel, as the occupying power, to investigate - but these investigations need to yield results. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago The Walking Dead star's son makes disturbing threat after being charged with assault

Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen's son Mingus Reedus has been ordered to avoid his alleged assault victim.

Events

1 week ago Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen's son Mingus makes disturbing threat after assault arrest

Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen's son Mingus Reedus has been ordered to avoid his alleged assault victim.

Events

1 week ago Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen's son Mingus ordered to avoid alleged assault victim

Norman Reedus and Helena Christensen's son Mingus Reedus has been ordered to avoid his alleged assault victim.

Events

1 week ago Black cab rapist John Worboys 'faces new rape claim investigation dating back to the 1990s'

The alleged victim said the assault took place over 25 years ago, when Worboys was working as a stripper.

Events

1 week ago Brutal machete trio who attacked victim in 'wrong place at wrong time' jailed

The victim was seriously injured in the assault and the judge said a victim impact statement made it clear that he also suffered "profound and long lasting psychological effects".

Events

2 w. ago ‘I’d rather die than go back there’: How a vulnerable teenager was failed by a scandal

When Ruth Szymankiewicz’s family placed her in the care of Huntercombe Hospital they thought she would be safe. Months later, she was dead, as health correspondent Rebecca Thomas reports

Events

3 w. ago Woman charged with assault after migrant ‘walked into her flat’

The alleged victim of the assault is a security guard at the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf.

Events

3 w. ago ‘Systemic failures’ led to unlawful death of girl at mental health unit – family

A jury inquest ruled the death of Ruth Szymankiewicz, who was left unsupervised at a children’s mental health ward, as unlawful killing.

Society

3 w. ago Girl, 14, who died on children's mental health ward when Ghanaian agency worker with a fake ID left her unsupervised was unlawfully killed, inquest rules

Ruth Szymankiewicz, who was being treated for an eating disorder at Huntercombe Hospital in Berkshire, was under strict one-to-one observation when the staff member for her walked away.

Events