3 h. ago Police believe woman may have witnessed alleged rape at nightclub

A teen has been charged with rape following the alleged incident at a Welsh nightclub

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20 h. ago JENNI MURRAY: I didn't tell the police about my rape in the 1960s... and I doubt I would today

For so long women's safety has been neglected and ignored, despite promises of improvements. We are never top of the political agenda. And certainly not a priority for the police.

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63 h. ago Over 37,000 rape victims wait years for justice due to shocking police delay scandal

Charities have launched a super-complaint against police on December 16 as data reveals 37,000 sexual offence victims are left languishing for over three years for an outcome

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3 d. ago Boy, 15, arrested after woman ‘sexually assaulted while knife held to her neck by gang wearing balaclavas’

COPS have made an arrest after a gang wearing balaclavas reportedly held a knife to a woman's neck before she was sexually assaulted. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempt rape and is currently in police custody. The victim was walking between Old Run View and West Grange Road in Leeds, just...

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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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4 d. ago Every police force to have specialist rape investigation unit – but not until 2029

Campaigners say it is ‘not acceptable’ that victims will be left with an inconsistent response until 2029

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4 d. ago Police forces in England and Wales to get units that tackle violence against women

Specialist teams will deal with offences such as rape and stalking as part of VAWG strategy, home secretary saysAll police forces in England and Wales will have dedicated rape and sexual offences teams by 2029, the government has said.The plans are being unveiled as the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, prepares to outline a delayed strategy on violence against women and girls (VAWG) next week. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Cops reveal no crime established after report of woman raped in Scots woods

POLICE have closed a rape inquiry after concluding that 'no crime' has been established. Cops launched a major manhunt after a woman reported a serious sexual assault in a secluded woodland in Kirkcaldy, Fife. The rape was said to have happened in the early hours of Sunday, 7 December this year between 2am and 5am,...

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7 d. ago Police sergeant charged with rape receives two years of full pay after suspension

It is common practice for suspended officers to receive full pay during investigations - Sergeant Karl Mumby of West Midlands Police was suspended from his duties in November 2023

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8 d. ago Police issue urgent Morrisons plea after Wellingborough 'rape' arrest

Police are keen to hear from a member of the public who spoke to a teenage girl at Morrisons, in Oxford Street, Wellingborough, after a man was arrested on suspicion of rape

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8 d. ago Influencer accused of luring women into home abandoned after LA fires to sexually assault them

Clinton Adams, 32, is facing multiple rape charges. Police believe there may be more victims

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8 d. ago JENNI MURRAY: My mother was paralysed with terrible pain. Then came the awful day she begged me to kill her

I had to explain I could not ask doctors to do that and I could not kill her myself. The act was illegal; I would no doubt spend a good deal of time in prison if I did succeed in ending her torment.

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2 w. ago Dundee crime: Police launch investigation after woman raped at Scottish backpackers hostel

Officers are following a positive line of enquiry.

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2 w. ago JENNI MURRAY: After one year on Mounjaro, I have lost six stone but I can barely walk. Instead I am reduced to crawling on my hands and knees. I never saw this devastating side

It was at the beginning of October that I began to complain to friends and family about a strange and rather scary feeling in my feet.

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2 w. ago The Sarah Everard report part two: a catalogue of repeated and preventable failures | Joan Smith

So many reviews, so much hand-wringing, yet misogyny in England and Wales’s police forces and impunity for offenders remains the normHow do we get sexual predators out of the country’s police forces? It was one of the most urgent questions asked in 2021 when a serving police officer, PC Wayne Couzens, was charged with the abduction, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. In the first report of Elish Angiolini’s inquiry into this dreadful sequence of events, published in February last year, she made the eminently sensible recommendation that any individual with a caution or conviction for a sexual offence should be rejected during police vetting.It seemed the very least that should happen, yet we’ve learned from Lady Angiolini’s second report this week that the recommendation has yet to be implemented. She reveals that it took 18 months after publication for police chiefs to agree a blanket ban on recruits who have convictions, and even then it wasn’t included in draft Home Office regulat...

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2 w. ago Westminster 'rape' horror as woman in her 20s attacked and police seal off park

Police have sealed off Victoria Embankment Gardens in Westminster after an alleged horror rape

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2 w. ago Sarah Everard’s mother ‘still full of rage’ over daughter’s rape and murder

Sue Everard speaks of ‘torment’ as a report finds women and girls are being failed

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2 w. ago 'Predatory' Scots man jailed for conspiracy to rape child after police sting

Paul Chalmers was also given a lifelong restriction order in court.

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3 w. ago ‘A grotesque indignity to women’: Rachel Reeves scraps dehumanising rape clause

Rachel Reeves hit out at the “grotesque” rape clause tied to the two-child cap policy during her Budget speech.

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3 w. ago Suspected killer faces second murder charge over woman's death in south London

Simon Levy has been charged with a second count of murdering a woman

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