2 h. ago He said he'd 'turned his life around' before sexually attacking girl

Edward Rose, 32, had become a community hero as a volunteer litter picker

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69 h. ago Taylor Swift fans blush over sexual lyrics about Travis Kelce in ‘Wood’

Ninth track on her new album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl,’ is full of sexual innuendos

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3 d. ago Taylor Swift’s 'dark and sexual' The Life of a Showgirl: The Easter eggs, hidden meanings track by track

Orange doors, Shakespearean heroines, Travis Kelce innuendos... Swift’s twelfth album is full of secrets. Here’s the definitive breakdown

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7 d. ago A rapist consultant and a young man found dead in a toilet after a 22

Two nurses are now behind bars for drugging stroke victims for an 'easy life' and a pensioner was sexually assaulted on the same ward. Police still haven't concluded their inquiries, either.

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1 week ago Man who spent 38 years in prison awarded massive payout after wrongful conviction

Maurice Hastings, 72, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in connection to a 1983 sexual assault and murder of Roberta Wydermyer

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1 week ago Mum's fury as soldier takes own life after sexual assault by boss

Heartbroken parent says the army 'cost her' the life of daughter Jaysley Beck, 19, as the predator who attacked her was promoted instead of punished.

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1 week ago 'My Army daughter took her own life after being sexually assaulted by a superior'

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck was found dead in her barracks at Larkhill Camp in Wiltshire after a Christmas party, a death since ruled by a coroner to have been a suicide

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1 week ago Rochdale grooming gang victim who suffered 'significant sexual abuse' took her own life after being removed from hospital, coroner rules

Charlotte Tetley (pictured), 33, saw her mental health spiral after she was taken off an inpatient bed list on June 25 last year, assistant coroner for Cheshire, Sarah Murphy, said.

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2 w. ago Wynne Evans says he will 'regret' sexual comment he made on Strictly Come Dancing 'for the rest of my life' after being axed from the BBC

At the start of the year the 53-year-old was caught on camera by the Daily Mail seemingly suggesting a three-way sex session with Janette Manrara.

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2 w. ago Deputy headteacher banned for life over 'sexual fantasy' texts with vulnerable child

English teacher and safeguarding lead Laura Hamblin, 40, was arrested by police in March 2024 on suspicion of sexual communication with a child, and was later banned from teaching

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3 w. ago Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that cultureI was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”, in counterculture and mainstream culture, how normalized rape, exploitation, grooming, objectification, commodification was.The last Woody Allen movie I ever saw was Manhattan, in which he cast himself as more or less himself, a dweeb in his mid-40s, dating a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. She was my age, 17, and I was only too familiar with creeps, and the movie creeped me out, even though it was only long afterward that I read that she said he was at the time pressuring her to get sexually involved with him in real life.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunat...

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4 w. ago Former Army Sergeant Major admits sexually assaulting a teenage female soldier who took her own life after bosses 'covered up' the attack

Royal Artillery Gunner Jaysley Beck, 19, was found hanging in her room at Larkhill Camp, near Salisbury in Wiltshire, on December 15 2021.

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