70 m. ago First picture of 'Clapham Common Prowler' who sexually assaulted schoolgirls as they walked home alone

John Nyhan has admitted prowling around Clapham Common looking for teenage girls to sexually assault

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2 h. ago Teenage girls making TikToks: Philippa James’s best photograph

‘My daughter and her friends are part of the smartphone generation. The more time I spent with them, the more I learned about the darker side of their mobiles’This started as a project with my daughter and her friends, who are all part of the smartphone generation. They were 14 years old at the time and I wanted to learn more about the relationship they had with their mobile phones. In 2022, a study by Ofcom showed that nine out of 10 children owned one by the time they reached the age of 11, and that 91% of them used video platforms, messaging apps and social media by the age of 12. I spoke to my daughter and her friends about how they use their phones and the negative reputation that surrounds teenagers and their screens. They told me the positives as well as the negatives, such as how social media can raise confidence as well as knock it down.I asked if I could photograph them. There was very little direction from me and – rather than photographing them in a controlled portraitur...

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17 h. ago Boy, 15, is charged with rape after 'teenager attacked near tennis courts'

The teenage boy has been charged after a 17-year-old girl was reportedly attacked at Cripplegate Park in Worcester.

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52 h. ago Police issue urgent appeal for teenage girl reported as missing for 24 hours

Police say Tyra has not been seen since around midday on Sunday

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52 h. ago Urgent appeal issued to find teenage girl last seen miles away from home

She went missing 24 hours ago

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3 d. ago Teenage girl mauled by 10 dogs while jogging left with terrifying injuries

17-year-old Tracy Azpeitia ended up receiving 500 stitches after she was attacked by the pack of dogs, with her mum admitting she did not even recognise her due to her wounds

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3 d. ago Prince Andrew linked to FOURTH man accused of sex with teenage girls

Jeffrey Epstein’s long-term butler has told how Prince Andrew enjoyed afternoon tea in Saint-Tropez with his boss and disgraced British photographer David Hamilton

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4 d. ago Police probe after teenage girl 'raped' on footpath near south London golf club

Police are appealing for anyone with information to come forward

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5 d. ago Teenage girl reports 'rape' on footpath near South London golf club

Teenage girl reports 'rape' on footpath near South London golf club  My London

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5 d. ago Promethea review – a stylishly creepy supernatural drama you’ll want to binge

This French thriller about a teenage girl who turns up with no memory is a nicely paced, emotionally intense mystery – that spills over into the realms of fantasy The greatest mystery in any French mystery drama is how the characters look so much better than any English person has ever looked. How did the cast of The Returned (more than 10 years ago now, though it feels like yesterday) look so gorgeous all the time, despite seemingly ordinary costumes, hair and makeup? Is Gallic bone structure really that different? Do clothes just hang better on the other side of la Manche? Is that why they call it “the sleeve”? Is it a clue?Forgive me. I am consumed by this puzzle. The success of a French drama can be measured by how successfully the official narrative mystery distracts me from the conundrum, and here the new six-part series Promethea does just fine.Promethea launches on Channel 4 on Sunday and is available from streaming now. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Disgusting’ drunk who sexually assaulted teenage girl, 17, and woman on a bus is jailed

Graeme Hicks also sentenced for cocaine dealing and possessing an air pistol

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7 d. ago Paedophile hunters confront man who thought he was meeting 14

George Gleed, 78, was caught by paedophile hunters after sending pictures of his penis to a decoy he believed to be a teenage girl.

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9 d. ago The Kingdom review – an intensely exciting and absorbing mob drama

Corsica-set mafia tale boasts outstanding performances from first-time actors as it follows a teenage girl discovering and revelling in her status as the blueblood daughter of a crime bossThere are fierce and overwhelmingly authentic performances here from first-timers in Julien Colonna’s terrific mob drama. The setting is Corsica, around the 1990s, in the coastal region of Ajaccio, famously the home of Napoleon. Lesia (played by nonprofessional Ghjuvanna Benedetti) is a moody 15-year-old girl living with her aunt, hanging out with her friends and boisterous extended family of cousins.School is out for the summer and Lesia appears to be getting into a romance with a local boy. Maybe because of this, or due to other reasons, she is ordered to leave her aunt’s house and go to the luxurious and fortified family compound of her widowed father. This is mob boss Pierre-Paul (superbly played by Saveriu Santucci), a heavy-set, slow-moving but intimidating patriarch who is perhaps displeased...

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9 d. ago Renfrewshire paedophile branded "every parent's worst nightmare" jailed after sending sexual messages to teen girls

Twisted John McNaught sent sexual messages on social media platforms to six young teenage girls.

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1 week ago The Yogurt Shop Murders: how to turn a horrifying true story into a sensitive true crime docuseries

The devastating murder of four teen girls is turned into a thoughtful new series, looking back at the crime and examining the nature of the genreFour teenage girls were viciously murdered in 1991, their bodies left to burn in a fire – along with so much evidence – that engulfed the Austin yogurt shop where two of them worked.The memories surrounding this case can be fraught and vivid for anyone who lived in the area at the time, not just because of the devastating nature of the crime, but also the seismic way the surrounding community rallied around the victims’ families. They would march and hold up signs, put up billboards, and make buttons and coffee mugs, the paraphernalia all asking the question left unanswered to this day: “Who killed these girls?” This being Austin, local artists even came up with a song: We Will Not Forget. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Channel migrant who sexually assaulted teenage girl with special needs in broad daylight is jailed for 14 months

Aron Hadsh, 27, who was living at a taxpayer-funded Holiday Inn near Heathrow, attacked the 19-year-old in June last year after she had been sent by her mother to pick up fruit from a food bank.

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3 w. ago Goethe immortalised the shaming of German women 200 years ago – we’re still at it | Fatma Aydemir

Abortion is criminalised and stigmatised – and now the right has found a new female scapegoat in its US-style war on bodily autonomyEvery nation has literary classics that shape its cultural identity. Germans have Faust, Goethe’s play about the successful but dissatisfied scientist Dr Heinrich Faust, who makes a deal with the devil. Faust has been performed, referenced and read in schools for more than two centuries now. Interestingly, the most tragic character in this tragedy is not the protagonist, but his “love interest”, Gretchen – a teenage girl groomed by the old man, impregnated and socially ostracised. Her solution? She drowns her “illegitimate” newborn child, accepts her death penalty and rejects Faust’s offer to save her from prison. In God’s mercy, the Christian girl seeks salvation and off goes Faust with the devil to new adventures in Faust, Part Two.What would Gretchen do today, I wonder. Her fate is not only a result of sexual abuse and an inherently misogynistic mora...

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3 w. ago What did they think would happen? The Bell Hotel has stood in a leafy village for decades. Dozens of migrants moved in. Then a sex assault charge sparked angry riots

The Bell Hotel in Epping has become the focus of anger against migrants after an asylum seeker staying there was charged with sexually assaulting two teenage girls just days after arriving in Britain.

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3 w. ago Failures by senior care home staff led to murder of teenage girl, coroner says

A “catalogue of failures” allowed Jason Conroy to strangle Melissa Mathieson at a care home in Bristol

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3 w. ago The long road to tragedy at the Texas girls camp where floods claimed 27 lives

A 2018 county meeting foretold the Texas flood that overwhelmed the summer camp for girlsInvestigators of the catastrophic Hill Country flooding in Texas may never be able to pinpoint a precise moment that sealed the fate of 27 young girls, teenage counselors and staff who perished after a wall of water surged through Camp Mystic on the banks of the Guadalupe River.But perhaps no bigger clue can be found than the account of an otherwise unremarkable and sparsely attended meeting of Kerr county commissioners in March 2018. Continue reading...

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