89 m. ago Man, 27, found guilty of raping teenager in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens

A 27-year-old man has been found guilty of a serious sexual assault at the High Court in Edinburgh.

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7 h. ago Cops release CCTV after woman ‘sexually assaulted’ in busy town centre street

COPS have released CCTV of a man they want to speak to after a woman was attacked in a busy town centre street. The incident took place on the evening of October 18 in Northampton, police said. Officers believe that the man pictured could help police with their enquires, if anybody is able to identify...

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23 h. ago Topless feminism activists are sexually assaulted in shocking scenes during anti

Shocking footage shows two half-naked women standing outside a Madrid church where a mass was being held for the anniversary of the death of Spain's fascist dictator Francisco Franco.

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25 h. ago Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons in attempt to ensure justice for survivors

Classification will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, minister saysGermany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of a weapon in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” , Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Germany to classify date rape drugs as weapons to ensure justice for survivors

Classification plan will create basis for ‘significantly stricter’ prosecutions, says interior ministerGermany plans to treat the use of date rape drugs like the use of weapons in prosecutions as part of measures to ensure justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.“We classify date rape drugs, which are increasingly used as a widespread tool in crimes, as weapons. This creates the basis for significantly stricter prosecutions,” Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, said on Friday. “We are committed to clear consequences and consistent enforcement. Women should feel safe and be able to move freely everywhere.” Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Police manhunt after woman sexually assaulted while on morning jog

A woman aged in her 30s reported that she was pulled to the ground and sexually assaulted

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31 h. ago Bride sexually assaulted, killed and stuffed into wall days before wedding

Annie Le was a 24-year-old student at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, who was murdered by a lab technician just days before her wedding in 2009

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32 h. ago Horror as woman, in her 30s, sexually assaulted while out on a morning run as cops launch urgent probe

COPS have launched a probe after a woman was pulled to the ground and seriously sexually assaulted while on her morning jog. The victim, in her 30s, was running along a path just before 6am on Wednesday morning when an unknown man approached her and sexually assaulted her. Suffolk Police have appealed for information and...

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35 h. ago Asda security guard who 'used store CCTV' to hunt teen worker and sexually assault her dodges jail

Kieran Morgan, 34, targeted then 16-year-old Taylor Roy while they worked together at the supermarket chain in her hometown of Cumbernauld in 2021.

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44 h. ago Oscar winner Kevin Spacey claims he is now homeless after Hollywood exile

Oscar winner Kevin Spacey has claimed he is now homeless after being frozen out of Hollywood in the wake of sexual assault allegations first made against him seven years ago.

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47 h. ago Smokey Robinson faces fresh accusations of sexual assault from male and female former employees

Motown singer has denied all allegations against him

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52 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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52 h. ago Kevin Spacey says he has 'no home' seven years after sexual assault claims

‘The costs over these last seven years have been astronomical,’ Spacey said in a new interview

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53 h. ago Male and female former employees of Smokey Robinson accuse him of sexual assault

Motown star denies allegations, in addition to four existing sets of allegations against himTwo more former employees of the soul music star Smokey Robinson, both male and female, have alleged he sexually assaulted them, which he denies.Robinson is already facing similar allegations from four other former employees, who filed a joint lawsuit in May. This week, lawyers for the accusers filed a motion to have two further accusers added to the lawsuit, both anonymously. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago ‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal

At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public inquiry?When I met Kevin Young in 2012 he was in his early 50s, handsome, charismatic, smart – and utterly broken. The moment he started talking about Medomsley detention centre he was in tears.Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley, a youth detention centre in north-east England. Continue reading...

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65 h. ago Kevin Spacey reveals he is currently homeless and 'living in hotels' as he admits his financial situation is 'not great'

Kevin Spacey has revealed that he is currently homeless and 'living in hotels' as he admits his financial situation is 'not great'.

Society

66 h. ago Trainee NHS medic, 27, is warned he faces a lengthy prison sentence after he is found guilty of sexually assaulting two female patients

Trainee health worker Ieuan Crump, 27, sexually assaulted two women while carrying out bladder scans at Grange Hospital, Cwmbran.

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2 d. ago The confession letter that could have stopped David Carrick: How serial rapist Met cop penned note admitting attacking a girl

The former Met Police was today convicted at the Old Bailey of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old schoolgirl in the 1980s and raping a former partner.

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2 d. ago NHS hospital worker sexually assaults two patients during bladder scans

The patients were having scans at the time and the NHS worker 'chose not to wear gloves'

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2 d. ago Hospital worker is told what's coming to him after he sexually assaults two patients

The patients were having scans at the time and the NHS worker 'chose not to wear gloves'

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