14 h. ago Scots Tinder rapist who 'staged his own death' convicted of attacking two women

James Clachan went missing in May 2022, and fled to Spain, where he was arrested two years later.

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5 d. ago ‘I felt like the walls were closing in. All I could see was Fred West’s face’: how one woman escaped Britain’s worst serial killers

When Kathleen Richards rented a room at 25 Cromwell Street, she quickly realised the couple who owned it had a dark side. But even after their arrest, there was something about her 15 months at the house that she could never tell anyone – until nowKathleen Richards knows how lucky she is to be alive. In 1979, she woke up in bed to find the serial killer Fred West on top of her. It was by no means the first time West had assaulted the 17-year-old, but it was the last. This time, she managed to escape from the room she was renting at 25 Cromwell Street, perhaps Britain’s most notorious address, where Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and murdered so many girls and young women. Fred West took his own life in January 1995 while on remand, charged with 12 murders. Rose West was convicted of 10 murders later that year and is serving a whole-life sentence.In her own way, Richards has also been serving a life sentence. Today, she is a youthful, likable and traumatised 65-year-old. How...

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7 d. ago New partnership in West Lothian delivering results for women seeking employment

In a remarkable turnaround, a volunteer at West Lothian Foodbank who had been unemployed for over six years has successfully secured a job after receiving tailored support from Smart Works.

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9 d. ago Black cab rapist John Worboys ‘investigated over alleged 1990s sex attack’

The 68-year-old was locked up in 2009 for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women in London.

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1 week ago Black cab rapist John Worboys faces new probe over alleged Blackpool sex attack

Detectives are investigating a rape allegation dating back to the 1990s when Worboys was working as a male stripper

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1 week ago Black cab rapist John Worboys at centre of fresh probe over '1990s sex attack'

Cops in Lancashire confirmed they are investigating a rape allegation in Blackpool dating back to the 1990s when John Worboys was working as a male stripper

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1 week ago Airline reveals what horrified cabin crew did with rapist businessman after girl, 15, reported sex attack during flight from Mumbai to Switzerland

The teenager told crew she was raped by an Indian businessman sitting next to her after she fell asleep on the nine-hour journey.

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2 w. ago Rapist who attacked three women in West Lothian and Falkirk caged

Kevin Malloy, 39, has been caged for nine years.

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