4 h. ago He sexually assaulted a teenager on a bus – her ordeal at his hands had only just begun

Micahel Davies went to prison for the assault but following his release began a horrifying six-year stalking campaign against his victim

Economics

6 h. ago Met Police officer sexually assaulted boy, 17, in hotel while watching Love Island

Former Police Constable Grant Fulker, 32, was convicted by a jury at Southwark Crown Court on Friday, January 9, of sexual assault and attempted sexual assault

Events

14 h. ago Teenage girl dies after taking paracetamol for 'typical hangover'

A family's world came crashing down after 19-year-old Áine Rose Hurst died from a fatal headache, which she thought was just the side effect of a hangover

Events

36 h. ago First picture of teacher who allegedly sexually assaulted girl

Johnathan Morgan, 35, denies sexually assaulting the teenage girl while he was employed as a primary school teacher, a court has heard

Events

36 h. ago Former Met Police officer found guilty of sexual assaulting teenage boy in Heathrow hotel room

Former PC Grant Fulker was convicted of the offences at Southwark Crown Court

Events

38 h. ago Man who sexually assaulted woman onboard easyJet flight to Edinburgh unmasked

Nicola Cristiano moved seats to be next to the woman, who was travelling alone, to carry out the "despicable" attack on the flight last May.

Events

38 h. ago Katie Price 'splits from MAFS boyfriend JJ Slater' after problems became 'too obvious to ignore'

It comes after Price’s former husband Kieran Hayler was charged with rape and sexual assault

Politics

44 h. ago Mother and brother of teenage girl killed in house fire are charged with manslaughter

Leah Casson, 18, died after a fire engulfed her home on Vicarage Street, in North Shields in the early hours of January 16, 2023.

Events

47 h. ago Mother and brother of 'bubbly' teenage girl who was killed in house fire are charged with manslaughter

Leah Casson, 18, died after a fire engulfed her home on Vicarage Street, in North Shields in the early hours of January 16, 2023.

Events

64 h. ago Woman sexually assaulted inside shopping centre toy store as cops release CCTV in hunt for man

A WOMAN was sexually assaulted by a man while she was shopping at a children's toy shop. The woman was at the Toytown store in the Cleveland Centre, Middlesbrough, when a man approximately 18-years-old sexually assaulted her on his way out of the store. Police have released CCTV image of a man who may have...

Economics

65 h. ago Primary school teacher denies sexually assaulting teen but admits messages were 'wrong'

Johnathan Morgan, 35, who denies five charges, has told a jury that messaging a girl he thought had a 'genuine connection' with was 'wrong'

Events

66 h. ago Fungi: Anarchist Designers review – a perverse plunge into mushroom mayhem, from stinkhorns to zombie

Nieuwe Instituut, RotterdamThey have poisoned emperors, taken over insect brains and survived atomic bombs. This Dantean journey through fungal hell is riveting – though frogs may disagreeSylvia Plath’s poem Mushrooms is a sinister paean to the natural world. Her observations on fungi are freighted with foreboding, noting how “very / Whitely, discreetly, / Very quietly” they “Take hold on the loam, / Acquire the air”. The poem ends: “We shall by morning, / Inherit the earth. / Our foot’s in the door.”Plath’s ominous ode from 1959 forms the opening salvo in an exhibition dedicated to fungi’s creepy omniscience. Far from merely getting a foot in the door, the door has been blasted off its hinges by fungi’s preternatural capacity to reproduce, spread, evolve – and annihilate. How they thrive with a perverse intensity on discarded, dead and dying things, impelling the cycle of decay and regrowth. As coprophiliacs, necrophiliacs and silent assassins, they are legion, and have been around...

Politics

69 h. ago Hunt for man who sexually assaulted and spat at woman on London Tube platform

British Transport Police say victim approached by stranger who attacked her at Finsbury Park station

Events

3 d. ago Girl Taken review – Alfie Allen is incredible in this twisty tale of teen abduction

This tale of a family dealing with a kidnapped daughter is a deeply engaging, psychologically complex thriller that is a cut above the restA summary of Girl Taken is disheartening; a teenage girl is abducted by a man she trusted and kept for his own grim purposes in a remote secret location, and must use her wits to survive the depravities and maybe one day escape. But in full, Girl Taken, like the 2016 book Baby Doll by Hollie Overton on which it is based, is something much better. It takes the neglected parts of such stories – the sadder, quieter, far less titillating and voyeuristic aspects of what it means to take a person out of her home, her world and her life, and away from those of the people who love her – and fleshes all that out instead. It makes for a slower burn, but a much more deeply engaging and psychologically complex thriller than we customarily expect from such a setup, and – in asking what it really means to survive an act of profound violence – harrowing in a mo...

Politics

3 d. ago Predator firefighter, 34, who sexually assaulted, stalked and tried to rape different women is jailed

Former firefighter Jamie Scott, 34, has been jailed for five-and-a-half years at Perth Sheriff Court after he was found guilty of a string of stalking and sex attack offences against three women.

Events

3 d. ago Dad gave girl drugs before sexually assaulting her in his car

The girl said the father-of-three had given her cocaine to take advantage of her and "he knows what he did that night"

Events

3 d. ago The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house

Anthropomorphising tech helps Silicon Valley shares to soar, but our empathy should be directed to worthier causesMost readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun will have been moved by the portrait of its eponymous AI narrator. As a solar-powered “artificial friend”, bought as a companion and potential substitute for a sick teenage girl, Klara fulfils her duties with a loving loyalty that makes it impossible to think of her as a mere piece of tech.Brilliant, thought-provoking fiction. But back in the real world, anthropomorphising AI may not be such a clever idea. During the summer, Anthropic, a leading tech company, announced that in the interests of chatbot welfare, it was allowing its Claude Opus 4 model to avoid supposedly “distressing” conversations with users. More broadly, amid explosive growth in AI capacities, there is emerging speculation over whether future Klaras may even deserve to be accorded legal rights like human beings. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Inquest opens into the death of autistic teenage girl who was killed on M5 after jumping out of moving police car

Tamzin Ellen Hall, from Wellington, Somerset, suffered fatal injuries when she was struck by a vehicle on the motorway between junction 25 at Taunton and 24 at Bridgwater.

Events

3 d. ago Teen girl who fell out of ambulance on M6 was patient being rushed to hospital

A teenage girl reportedly fell from the back of an ambulance on the M6 Southbound, causing the motorway to close for nearly two hours on Tuesday evening

Science

3 d. ago Teenage girl 'fell out back of ambulance' onto motorway as she was being rushed to hospital

A slip road onto the M6 in Lancashire was closed on Tuesday evening after a teenage girl 'fell out of the back of an ambulance'.

Politics