7 h. ago I was kidnapped, raped and tortured by ruthless human traffickers

At just 17 years old, Lurata Lyon was snatched off the streets in a war-torn Serbia by a brutal human trafficking gang.

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3 d. ago Landmark ruling finds Russia shot down MH17 with 38 Australians on board

Europe’s top human rights court finds Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by Russia in July 2014Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEurope’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands, finding Moscow shot down flight MH17, killing all passengers, including 38 Australians.Judges at the European court of human rights ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law, from shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 d. ago How girl, 14, miraculously survived kidnapping, rape, and shooting at hands of criminal who dumped her in freezing woods

A teenage girl escaped horrific abuse after her attacker foolishly forgot to check if she was dead as he attempted to discard her body in the Alaskan woods.

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7 d. ago The crucial mistake that caused downfall of ruthless gang who tortured drug dealer to death in quiet cul

Planned with military precision, the plot to attack and torture Manchester gangster Thomas Campbell could have easily remained unsolved today.

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9 d. ago Football agent Jonathan Barnett accused of trafficking, torture and rape

Allegations in US lawsuit allege woman kept as ‘sex slave’Barnett and former employer CAA deny all allegations The leading football agent Jonathan Barnett is being sued in an American court over allegations of human trafficking, torture and rape.In a civil complaint filed in a California district court it is alleged that Barnett “trafficked” the woman from Australia to the UK in 2017, “tortured” her for six years by keeping her as a “sex slave” and sexually assaulted her, including by rape, more than 39 times, as well as making “repeated threats to her life and the lives of her minor children”. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Woman kidnapped and raped by man who made her life a living hell

"Curtis Evans is a particularly nasty and dangerous character"

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2 w. ago Police officer told a woman he met on Tinder he would kidnap, rape and murder her in chilling echo to the Sarah Everard case, a court heard

Andrew Holmes was a serving officer with Hampshire Police when he made the 'menacing and disgusting' comment to a woman he had started speaking to on the dating app.

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting says chants about IDF at Glastonbury festival ‘appalling’

Health secretary also says Israel needs to ‘get its own house in order’ while condemning chants led by Bobby VylanChants of death to the Israeli military at Glastonbury were “appalling” and the BBC and the festival have questions to answer, Wes Streeting has said, while adding that Israel needs to “get its own house in order”.The health secretary said the chanting should not have been broadcast to those watching at home, highlighting that Israelis at a similar music festival were kidnapped, murdered and raped. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Killer police officer Wayne Couzens is 'allowed to jump waiting list' for £17,000 back operation on the NHS

Couzens, 52, who was found guilty of the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, was escorted from HMP Frankland in Durham to a nearby hospital for a lumbar procedure.

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2 w. ago Slovakian paedophile who kidnapped and gang raped schoolgirl, 12, starred in rap video funded by British taxpayers

Ernest Gunar Jr, 27, lured his victim into a car with the promise of a cigarette at a car park in Dover last August, alongside fellow Slovakians Kevin Horvath, 26, and Ivan Turtak, 38.

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2 w. ago Disgraced MLB star Wander Franco learns fate amid sexual abuse trial

The former Tampa Bay Rays shortstop is on trial in his native Dominican Republic, facing charges of sexual abuse, sexual exploitation against a minor and human trafficking.

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3 w. ago Duffy 'secretly working on new music' after terrifying kidnap and rape plot

Noughties star, Duffy, is preparing to step back into the spotlight after she quit fame when she was tragically raped and kidnapped in a harrowing ordeal, which she first revealed in 2020

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3 w. ago ‘Unofficial Uber’ driver guilty of kidnapping, attempted rape and sexual assault

Graham Head, 68, drove around of posing as an ‘unofficial Uber’ to pick up ‘vulnerable and intoxicated’ women he could abuse.

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