38 h. ago Prison tutor jailed after being found 'flustered' reading lag's love letters

Melissa Murphy, 48, was found to have exchanged racy content with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford, where she worked as a teacher training inmates for employment after their release

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40 h. ago Former councillor jailed for stalking former MP Penny Mordaunt

Edward Brandt sentenced to 20 weeks in prison after behaviour left former Tory minister ‘in fear of sexual violence’A former councillor has been jailed for 20 weeks after stalking Penny Mordaunt, which the former cabinet minister said left her fearing “sexual violence”.Edward Brandt, a professional sailor, had been found guilty of the offence but was acquitted of a more serious charge of stalking involving serious alarm or distress. Continue reading...

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42 h. ago Prison tutor sent 'sexual' letters to inmate but denies physical relationship

The prison tutor locked herself in a workshop with the inmate and was found 'flustered'

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44 h. ago Prison tutor jailed after sending explicit love letters to inmate

The court heard handwritten letters from Murphy containing “explicit romantic and sexual content” were found in the prisoner’s cell

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45 h. ago Prison tutor jailed for 'sexual' letters to inmate as judge blasts 'abuse of trust'

The prison tutor locked herself in a workshop with the inmate and was found 'flustered'

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45 h. ago Prison tutor found 'flustered' alone with inmate before sexual letters is jailed

HMP Chelmsford prison tutor Melissa Murphy has been sentenced over an inappropriate relationship with an inmate after a photo and letters between the pair were found

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45 h. ago Prison tutor whose fling with lag exposed after photo found in bedroom learns fate

Melissa Murphy, 48, admitted having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford after love letters were discovered between the pair and a photo was found in her bedroom

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45 h. ago Prison tutor's romance with lag exposed after photo and love letters found in her bedroom

Melissa Murphy, 48, admitted having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate at HMP Chelmsford after love letters were discovered between the pair and a photo was found in her bedroom

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59 h. ago Judge blasts ‘authoritarian’ Trump administration’s ‘unconstitutional conspiracy’ to deny free speech

Reagan-appointed judge rips into Trump’s ‘fear’ of First Amendment protections in case involving pro-Palestine protests

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3 d. ago London's Burning actor John Alford jailed for sexual abuse of two underage girls at party

Alford, 54, was sentenced to eight and a half years after being found guilty at St Albans Crown Court

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3 d. ago London's Burning actor is jailed for sexual abuse of two underage girls at party

London's Burning actor is jailed for sexual abuse of two underage girls at party  London Evening Standard

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4 d. ago Soldier turned teacher jailed for sexual assaulting teenage pupil

Army veteran Simon Taylor was a teacher at Hethersett Academy in Norfolk.

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7 d. ago Paedo ref David Coote mocked Premier League ace as ‘f***ing hopeless’ in lewd exchange with teenager he tried to groom

SICKO ex-referee David Coote mocked Everton striker Beto, claiming he was “f***ing hopeless”. Coote, 43, ridiculed the star in a lewd exchange with a teenage official he was trying to groom for sex and drug sessions. The ex-Premier League ref dodged jail after downloading a sexual video of a 15-year-old boy in school uniform. He...

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8 d. ago Female prison tutor accused of forming 'intimate' relationship with lag

Kelly Duffey is alleged to have struck up an inappropriate relationship with the inmate before hiding the 'affair' from the public for four months as the prisoner was moved

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8 d. ago Female prison tutor, 36, appears in court accused of having 'intimate relationship' with inmate

Kelly Duffey, 36, is charged with striking up a romantic relationship with Ashley Goodridge, 37, who is currently serving a prison sentence.

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8 d. ago Sexual predator jailed for 12 years after attacking two women in Forth Valley

Akib Aslam, 32, was sentenced at the High Court in Edinburgh.

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9 d. ago Man slept with underage girl at same time wife was giving birth to their child

David Peers has been jailed after admitting sexual offences against two underage girls in his home and car

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9 d. ago Disgraced Premier League referee David Coote is spared a jail sentence despite police finding a sexual video of a 15

At Nottingham Crown Court Her Honour Judge Nirmal Shant KC delivered the sentence after deciding he was at low-risk of reoffending and had taken steps towards rehabiliation

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4 w. ago 'Abusive' Scot who inflicted woman to 'horrific' sexual abuse over 35 years jailed

The offences took place in the Sanquhar area of Dumfries and Galloway between 1986 and 2021.

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