1 hour ago Barclays chair has shifted view on Staley’s relationship with Epstein, court hears

Nigel Higgins tells court that information which has come to light ‘paints a different picture’ of nature of ties

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2 h. ago Brit is arrested on remote Indian Ocean paradise island 'for sexually assaulting woman, 30, who had her drink spiked at scuba diving resort'

The UK national has been accused of raping the 30-year-old Indian tourist at the Govind Nagar beach on Swaraj Dweep, also known as Havelock Island, on February 26, Indian media reports.

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4 h. ago Prolific sex offender jailed for abusing boy, 15, dies in jail

Graham Joseph Stridgeon was jailed in 2019 for three cases of sexual assault

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32 h. ago Little boy, 7, in tears as he tells court mum murdered his sister

Amanda Lewis was convicted of murdering her seven-year-old daughter Adrianna Hutto.

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36 h. ago Legendary Scotland player Rose Reilly says Spanish football chief sexual assault must lead to change

Rose said Rubiales’s actions amounted to an “abuse of power” and his conviction last month must send a message that women deserve respect on and off the pitch.

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42 h. ago British law chief bringing war crimes case against Israel 'pressed alleged victim to deny sexual assault claims'

Karim Khan KC is said to have spent more than five months pressuring and asking his female colleague to retract serious allegations of sexual misconduct against him.

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50 h. ago Mormon church rocked by child sexual abuse allegations in California

Look-back window results in nearly 100 allegations against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in the US has been rocked by a slew of sexual abuse allegations launched against it in California in the latest scandal to hit the organization that is better known as the Mormon church.A three-year look-back legal window that allows adult survivors of sexual assault to file claims in California has produced almost 100 allegations of childhood sexual abuse by Mormon leaders. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago A look at where Coronation Street star Bruno Langley is now seven years after the disgraced actor was axed from the cobbles following career

He was the first openly gay character to grace the cobbles after he joined the cast of Coronation Street back in 2001. 

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57 h. ago Referrals to NHS sexual assault centres rise by almost 18% in two years

The rise follows campaigns to ensure more people are aware of the medical, practical and emotional support available,

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67 h. ago Amazon driver accused of sexually assaulting victims as he delivered orders

Detectives have asked for any other potential victims to come forward

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3 d. ago Probation for man who sexually assaulted and disfigured woman in front of her daughter

The victim has been left reeling from heinous October 28, 2023, ordeal: ‘I have cried more in the last six months than I have in my entire lifetime my daughter and my little cousin, both thirteen at the time, had to witness the whole thing’

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3 d. ago Footballer accused of raping and imprisoning woman in sex attack attends court

Darlington U23s player Harry Butters, 24, has been suspended by his club after he was charged with a number of sexual offences and appeared in court

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3 d. ago Sexual assault by former Western University department chair 'left deep scars,' victim tells court

Sexual assault by former Western University department chair 'left deep scars,' victim tells court  CBC.ca

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4 d. ago Commercial director behind £100m deal resigns in latest setback to RFU

Stuart Ramsey to leave next month for role in triathlonChair has also quit and chief executive is under pressureThe Rugby Football Union’s commercial director has resigned in another setback for the beleaguered ­governing body. ­Stuart Ramsey, who was ­instrumental in securing a £100m naming rights deal for Twickenham with Allianz last year and recently agreed a partnership for England teams with Apple, will leave the RFU next month for a new role in triathlon.Ramsey’s impending departure follows the resignation of the RFU chair, Tom Ilube, last December over an executive pay row with the news coming a few weeks before a special general meeting of the RFU, which will determine the fate of the chief executive, Bill Sweeney. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Neil Gaiman labels ex babysitter 'a fantasist' in court documents amid sexual assault claims

Neil Gaiman, the author behind the likes of Stardust, Good Omens, American Gods, and Coraline, has denied claims made against him by a former babysitter

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5 d. ago Neil Gaiman asks US court to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape and sexual assault

The author’s motion to dismiss argued that the case should be heard in New Zealand, where the alleged abuse took place, and called accuser Scarlett Pavlovich ‘a fantasist’Neil Gaiman has asked a US district court to throw out a civil lawsuit accusing him of rape and sexual assault, filed last month by a woman who previously worked for the author and his former partner, Amanda Palmer.The motion to dismiss, filed on Tuesday, argued that the case should be heard in New Zealand, where the alleged abuse took place, rather than in the US. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Supreme Court tells Trump to pay out $2 billion to USAID after rejecting his bid to pause spending

High court’s ruling clears the way for nearly $2 billion in foreign aid funding to be released

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5 d. ago Be grateful you’re still here: Germany’s rebuke of a grieving mother exposes its deepening anti

Emiş Gürbüz’s son was murdered in Hanau by a far right terrorist. Her plea for justice five years on drew an astonishing reaction from the stateThe first time I went to Hanau, I was creeped out by how ordinary it was. This mid-sized city of 100,000 people right in the geographical centre of Germany, looked and felt like many other places in western Germany I had been to: built around a bombed and reconstructed old town, expanded by a soulless mall with a multiplex cinema, surrounded by a vast industrial area and neighbourhoods separated along class lines. What the city prides itself on is that the Brothers Grimm grew up here in the late 18th century before they started publishing folk tales such as Cinderella and The Frog Prince. Since 2020, however, Hanau stands for something else: it’s the place where a far-right gunman killed nine people he assumed to be immigrants, and afterwards killed his mother and himself.The attack on 19 February of that year not only left a deep wound with...

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5 d. ago Shock sexual assault allegations against author Neil Gaiman could unravel as texts reveal 'consensual' bath time with nanny

Fantasy author Neil Gaiman's career was going up in flames with the recent sexual assault lawsuits, but his recent filing revealed steamy texts that could blow up the case against him.

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6 d. ago 1980s rock guitarist and wife arrested as teen girl steals his phone to call for help

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Marc Piovanetti, who played guitar in various successful 1980s thrash metal band, has been charged with the sexual assault of a minor

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