6 h. ago Tackling violence against women and girls will be treated like terror and organised crime crackdown, Labour vows

Jess Phillips promises ‘change is coming’ as long-awaited violence against women and girls strategy published

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52 h. ago Girl, 11, 'thought she would die' in Leicester Square knife attack, court hears as knifeman is locked up

Ioan Pintaru stabbed the girl ‘furiously’ with a knife in Leicester Square

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52 h. ago Teenage boy arrested on suspicion of murder after girl, 9, found dead

A teenage boy remains in custody, arrested on suspicion of murder

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54 h. ago Girl, 11, 'thought she would die' in Leicester Square knife attack, court hears as knifeman is sentenced

Ioan Pintaru stabbed the girl ‘furiously’ with a knife in Leicester Square

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2 d. ago Children's mentor convicted of sexual assault of five teenage girls at London school

Emem Udaw, 50, convicted over offences over 20 years ago as brave victims come forward years after abuse

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4 d. ago Every police force to get rape probe teams as part of Shabana Mahmood's blitz on sex crimes in 'largest crackdown on violence against women and girls in British history'

Specialist rape and sex offences investigation teams will be set up in every police force in what the Government calls 'the largest crackdown on violence against women and girls in British history'.

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5 d. ago Who killed the girl with the dragon tattoo? Murder of Amsterdam sex worker Betty, 19, has gone unsolved for 16 years

Dressed in faded denim hot pants and a leopard-print bra, with a tattoo snaking up her stomach, the figure periodically rose from her stool to breathe on the glass, writing 'Help' in the condensation.

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8 d. ago Online predators who convinced vulnerable teenage girls to self

Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves

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8 d. ago Two online predators face jail for urging vulnerable teenage girls to self

Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves

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1 week ago Wealthy US student at Goldsmiths guilty of murdering girlfriend

Joshua Michals claimed self defence but was convicted of murder

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1 week ago Paedophile cousins who abused young girls in sickening crimes are jailed for decades

Manzorr Hussain and his cousin Imtiaz Ali were convicted for the crimes committed in Bury in the late 1990s

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2 w. ago Rightwingers are trying to destroy women’s right to vote | Moira Donegan

Calls for disenfranchisement rest on a single assumption: that women’s citizenship is partial and conditionalSexism can be very modern and tech savvy. Misogyny is an ever-evolving idiom, and men and women alike have found particularly of-the-moment ways to operate within the genre. Think of the apps that take images of women and remove their clothes, or the AI bots that men and boys can use to generate pornography or depictions of graphic violence against women and girls for the crime of going to the same school as they do or running for office. Think of the influencers of the so-called “womanosphere” who tell their female audiences that women who seek out friendship or equality with men are morons or cows, all through the gleam of a TikTok filter. Sexism may be the world’s oldest prejudice and its first unjust hierarchy, but it is continually innovating, adapting to new technologies and the most recent rhetorical needs of male supremacy.But some of the forms of misogyny that have b...

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2 w. ago Cannibal killer drank girlfriend's blood after killing her then roasted her brain

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Dmitry Luchin, 23, murdered his 45-year-old partner Olga Budunova roasting pieces of her brain

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2 w. ago Miami man who told his friends his girlfriend had been seized by ICE has now been charged with her murder

Saul Garcia-Gonzalez reported his girlfriend Nerida Martel missing just days before her body was found

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3 w. ago Disgraced husband of Omaze winner jailed for sex attacks against young girls

Anthony Doyle has been jailed for more than six years after admitting sex attacks on young girls

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3 w. ago Husband of £3m Omaze winner jailed after string of sex attacks against young girls

Anthony Doyle had abused young girls for 13 years and police found hundreds of indecent pictures and videos when he was arrested before he was sentenced to over six years in jail

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3 w. ago Husband of £3million Omaze winner is jailed for sex crimes against girls as young as seven

But relatives of the victims were furious that Anthony Doyle was given just six years and three months for 10 offences, spanning 13 years.

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3 w. ago First picture of ‘incredible and kind’ mental health worker found dead as girl, 13, bailed

Sarah Forrester, in her early 50s, was found unresponsive on in Baydon Close, Swindon

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4 w. ago Suspect called his girlfriend 18 times in two minutes before shooting her dead at a party, cops say

‘It must have been her crazy boyfriend,’ one witness said

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4 w. ago Former Met officer David Carrick sentenced for rape and molesting child

Convicted serial offender given further life sentence for crimes against 12-year-old girl in 1980s and former partnerFormer police officer and convicted sex offender David Carrick has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum of 30 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner. Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s, his trial heard. More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.Mrs Justice McGowan sentenced Carrick for the fresh convictions on Thursday after he was found guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019, and five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s. Carrick’s offences came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offe...

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