6 h. ago Met terror cop who won bravest officer award for stopping Samurai sword attack is charged with sexually assaulting a woman

Sergeant Stephen Brown, 47, is claimed to have sexually touched the woman without her consent at Biggleswade Railway Station on November 29 2019.

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12 h. ago The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunismIn early June, the violence began. Rumours of a foreigner assaulting a local woman resulted in groups roaming through a small British town, breaking windows of homes belonging to “outsiders”. A few days later, the police attempted to stop mobs from reaching another nearby multiracial area. Eventually they broke through, ransacking shops and burning down a house, while local media reported that the violence had developed into “something like a fever”.Sound familiar? This isn’t Ballymena, the County Antrim town in Northern Ireland that has seen several nights of unrest in which immigrant homes were attacked after reports of an alleged sexual assault on a local girl by two teenagers, who had a Romanian interpreter read them the charges. These incidents actually took place more than a century ago, during the summer of 1919, as racial violence spread thro...

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13 h. ago CCTV image of man police want to speak to released after woman sexually assaulted on Metrolink tram

Police believe the man pictured could be a key witness

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61 h. ago CCTV footage released by Scotland Yard after 'attempted rape at north London cinema'

A woman in her 30s accused a man of sexually assaulting her at the movie theatre in South Hampstead last week

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5 d. ago Police hunt man in his 50s after woman reports attempted rape at cinema

A woman in her 30s said the alleged assault happened in a cinema in South Hampstead at around 3.45pm on Wednesday, June 11.

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5 d. ago My sick father started raping me when I was nine and told me he was 'preparing me for marriage'. When I confessed to my little sister at 14, I learnt of horrors I could never have imagined

Mark Jones, 65, was in April jailed for 24 years, after repeatedly sexually assaulting Taylor-Rae Eason, 22 and her younger sister, Chloe, 20 - and giving them cash in exchange for their silence.

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5 d. ago Police release image of man following attempted rape at north London cinema

A woman suffered a serious sexual assault at a cinema in South Hampstead on Wednesday

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5 d. ago Yung Filly update as YouTube star faces two new sexual assault charges

Yung Filly - whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos - was charged with rape and other offenses over an alleged sexual assault on a woman in Australia last year

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8 d. ago Moment man 'posing as an Uber driver to sexually assault vulnerable woman' is stopped by police who found 'rape kit' in his car

Graham Head, 66, of Pevensey, East Sussex, was pulled over and had his vehicle searched after the 25-year-old woman gave police part of a car numberplate.

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1 week ago Woman to get £2,000 compensation from attacker after train station assault

The terrifying incident at Shotts station happened seconds before an announcement that a train was approaching.

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1 week ago Woman hit in the face by man who sexually assaulted her on Elizabeth line train

Members of the public intervened by pushing suspect away, police said

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2 w. ago Moment 'evil' rapist soldier is caught hiding in toilet after assaulting woman twice in brutal street attack

Private John Harvey, 25, targeted a woman, who was not known to him, before dragging her away from a street in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and rapping her twice on July 6, 2024.

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2 w. ago Married Irish woman 'sexually assaults man at Magaluf spa hotel' where she was staying with her husband

The 37-year-old was hauled to court after being accused of touching her alleged victim's genitals without his consent.

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2 w. ago Shocking moment families brawl at Disneyland after 'row over queue cutting'

The scuffle between a couple and a family of three even saw a young child be assaulted as a woman in a rabbit hat repeatedly flailed out her arms while two men grappled.

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2 w. ago Woman, 23, sexually assaulted at central London Tube station

Detectives issue CCTV images after young victim attacked as she got on an escalator

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2 w. ago Woman allegedly 'sexually assaulted' in central London station

Woman allegedly 'sexually assaulted' in central London station  This Is Local London

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3 w. ago Police issue update after woman assaulted as FOUR people arrested

A cordon was in place on the street

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3 w. ago Four people arrested after woman assaulted on Greater Manchester street

A cordon was in place at the scene

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3 w. ago 'Evil' teen bullies get taste of vigilante 'justice' after they were filmed beating disabled woman

A group of teen bullies got a taste of vigilante justice after she was filmed beating up a young disabled woman in Hawaii .

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3 w. ago Woman and police 'assaulted' in Glasgow park as man appears in court

A 36-year-old woman was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital for treatment.

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