29 h. 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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30 h. 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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30 h. ago Gang which ‘ruthlessly’ exploited vulnerable women in brothels jailed

Ring-leader described as ‘smirking, winking pimp’ given extended sentence comprising 20 years in custody and four years of supervision

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30 h. 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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31 h. 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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53 h. ago Epping sex offender migrant will be forced on a plane this week for deportation after being recaptured, as Lammy shamelessly tries to blame Tories from 16 months ago

Hadush Kebatu was arrested by four officers inside Finsbury Park, north London, at around 8.30am on Sunday.

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60 h. ago Wes Streeting forced into humiliating plea for public to help find fugitive migrant sex offender as manhunt continues in east London  

Kebatu was set free from HMP Chelmsford in error on Friday four weeks after being sentenced for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl and a woman in Epping,

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63 h. ago Multiple women to sue Scottish council over country school abuse

More than 200 survivors of abuse at Fornethy House in Angus have legal representation.

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3 d. ago Cruel daughter left disabled mum to die in own filth with sores 'size of a fist'

Colleen Sayegh, 38, has been jailed after she left her vulnerable, disabled mother to die in her own filth.

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3 d. ago 'A desperately sad story': SAM GREENHILL reveals the uncomfortable truth about Virginia Giuffre's bombshell memoir 

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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3 d. ago 'A desperately sad story': SAM GREENHILL reveals the uncomfortable truth about Virginia Guiffre's bombshell memoir 

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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3 d. ago 'A desperately sad story' SAM GREENHILL explores Virginia Guiffre's bombshell memoir amid Prince Andrew scandal

Virginia Roberts was the 'sex slave' of Jeffrey Epstein who claims she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew. Now she has told her own story - in an autobiography published posthumously.

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4 d. ago Showjumper, 37, and female jockey, 26, sentenced after forcing underage girl into sex

A showjumper and a horse rider have been sentenced after forcing an underage girl into having sex with them before brazenly plotting a cover up to conceal their crimes

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5 d. ago Watchdog slams force for letting sex offender flee from 'murder scene'

Scatchard was a pervert who drugged his victims

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6 d. ago Police force apologises to family of woman who was murdered in sex offender's home after he was allowed to go on the run for six months

Kelly Faiers, 61, died at the address of Richard Scatchard, 70, in Minehead, Somerset, on October 15 2023.

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7 d. ago Police force apologises family of woman who was murdered in sex offender's home after he was allowed to go on the run for six months

Kelly Faiers, 61, died at the address of Richard Scatchard, 70, in Minehead, Somerset, on October 15 2023.

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7 d. ago Women's rights campaigners slam domestic abuse charity’s failure to accept court's biological sex ruling

Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) insists it needs to wait for updated guidance from the equality watchdog before implementing the ruling.

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7 d. ago Jail with highest number of suspected suicides ‘putting vulnerable inmates at risk’ due to overcrowding

‘Inadequate’ support is leaving prisoners at risk after 16 self-inflicted deaths in three years at HMP Leeds, inspector warns

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8 d. ago The Guardian view on the price of a prince: what Virginia Giuffre’s story says about palace accountability | Editorial

The Jeffrey Epstein scandal has exposed a constitutional blind spot: royal privilege remains beyond democratic scrutiny. MPs must be able to question powerThe tragic story of Virginia Giuffre raises the question of who governs when royal privilege and public outrage collide. As a vulnerable teenager she was drawn into a world of sexual exploitation by the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Ms Giuffre alleged that Epstein trafficked her and that she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew on three occasions, including when she was 17. He has denied all the claims. Despite previously insisting he had no memory of meeting her, the prince reportedly paid £12m to settle her civil case in 2022. The money was said to have come from his mother, the late queen – who, just six weeks later, was photographed walking beside him at her husband’s memorial service.With a posthumous memoir, Ms Giuffre has brought the issue back into the spotlight. In his calamitous 2019 Newsnight interview,...

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8 d. ago Nobody’s Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre review – a devastating exposé of power, corruption and abuse

Giuffre’s posthumously published memoir lays bare the life-wrecking impact of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes – but it is also the story of how a young woman becomes a heroThere is a strand running through Nobody’s Girl – a memoir by Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who died by suicide in April this year – in which the activist and survivor of Jeffrey Epstein grapples with something more insidious than abuse. “I know it is a lot to take in,” she writes after a gruelling early passage detailing how she was sexually abused as a child. “But please don’t stop reading.” After recounting the first time Epstein allegedly forced her to have sex with one of his billionaire friends, she writes, “I need a breather. I bet you do too.”Throughout the book, Giuffre beguiles, apologises and cheerfully breaks the fourth wall in an effort to soften the distaste she assumes her story will trigger. Make no mistake: this is a book about power, corruption, industrial-scale sex abuse and the way in which institutions s...

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