39 h. ago 'Smirking pimp' ringleader of Romanian grooming gang was allowed to apply for £1500 Home Office deportation scheme while in prison awaiting trial for 10 rapes

Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, led a group that groomed, drugged and raped vulnerable women in Dundee.

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42 h. ago Former Met officer David Carrick sentenced for rape and molesting child

Convicted serial offender given further life sentence for crimes against 12-year-old girl in 1980s and former partnerFormer police officer and convicted sex offender David Carrick has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum of 30 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner. Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s, his trial heard. More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.Mrs Justice McGowan sentenced Carrick for the fresh convictions on Thursday after he was found guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019, and five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s. Carrick’s offences came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offe...

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43 h. ago 'Smirking pimp' ringleader of Romanian grooming gang 'was offered £1500 by the Home Office to be deported while in prison awaiting trial for 10 rapes'

Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, led a group that groomed, drugged and raped vulnerable women in Dundee.

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44 h. ago Romanian grooming gang boss offered £1,500 to leave UK while in prison awaiting trial for 10 rapes

A ROMANIAN grooming gang boss was offered £1,500 to leave the UK while in prison waiting to go on trial for raping and drugging women. Mircea Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, was locked up in HMP Perth awaiting trial when officials offered him a 'voluntary return' form in 2024. He led an Eastern European group that exploited vulnerable women...

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4 d. ago Danny Masterson blames rape trial convictions on lawyer’s ‘failure of due diligence’

‘That ’70s Show’ star is currently serving 30 years to life after being convicted of two counts of rape in 2023

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8 d. ago BREAKING: Three charged with Brighton beach rape to face trial

Three men accused of raping a woman on Brighton beach last month are due to stand trial in March

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1 week ago 'Ringleader' of Rotherham sex abuse ring has three years added to prison sentence after being found guilty of raping girl, 13, in alleyway

Sageer Hussain, 40, was found guilty of rape at Sheffield Crown Court following a trial which heard how he targeted his victim when she was about 13 years old.

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1 week ago Rapist captured on CCTV moments before Glasgow attack jailed after string of sex offences

Mihai-Nicolae Patran was found guilty of rape, sexual assault and sexual exposure following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

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2 w. ago 'Predator' Met Police officer 'confessed in letter to sexually abusing 12

David Carrick is accused of writing a letter ‘confessing’ to sexually abusing a girl

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3 w. ago Future King of Norway's stepson Marius Borg Høiby starts rehab for substance abuse issues as he awaits trial for rape, sexual assault, and battery charges

Now, ahead of his January trial, Høiby is receiving treatment for substance abuse issues, his defence lawyers, Ellen Holager Andenæs and Petar Sekulic, confirmed to TV 2 Norway.

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3 w. ago Moment Romanian grooming gang ringleader sings to 50 Cent's 'P.I.M.P.' while driving

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims, aged between 16 and 30, at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

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3 w. ago Romanian grooming gang led by 'smirking pimp' are jailed for grooming vulnerable women and forcing them to take part in 'sex games'

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

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3 w. ago Ringleader of Romanian grooming gang filmed smirking and winking to 50 Cent song 'PIMP'

Mircea Marian Cumpanasoiu, 37, Christian Urlateanu, 41, Alexandra Bugonea, 35, Remus Stan, 35, and Cataline Dobre, 45, gave victims drugs and alcohol at brothels in Dundee.

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3 w. ago Romanian grooming gang led by 'smirking pimp' are jailed for grooming vulnerable Scottish women and forcing them to take part in 'sex games'

Ringleader Marian Cumpanasoiu, 38, and four associates drugged their victims - aged between 16 and 30 - at flats across Dundee between 2021 and 2022.

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