20 h. ago ScotRail incident: Teenage girl, 18, sexually assaulted by man on train from Glasgow to Ayr

The incident took place on a train travelling from Glasgow Central to Ayr.

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22 h. ago Teenager sexually assaulted by man sitting next to her on train to Ayrshire

The British Transport Police are appealing for witnesses after an 18-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on a train between Glasgow and Ayr.

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45 h. ago Man who raped and sexually assaulted victims for eight years as a teenager is jailed

The attacks by Riley Kirk took place over three years, beginning when he was just 14 years old.

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8 d. ago Woman surrounded by teenage boys then sexually assaulted on Metrolink tram

The suspect is believed to be aged between 13 and 15, police said.

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9 d. ago Teenage girl sexually assaulted in shower at public swimming pool

A teenage girl was sexually assaulted by a man who watched her shower in the changing rooms of a public swimming pool - Tomasz Figura, 46, was sentenced to 11 years behind bars

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1 week ago The racial violence in Ballymena repeats a pattern that’s blighted Britain for years. We must wake up to that | Lanre Bakare

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunismIn early June, the violence began. Rumours of a foreigner assaulting a local woman resulted in groups roaming through a small British town, breaking windows of homes belonging to “outsiders”. A few days later, the police attempted to stop mobs from reaching another nearby multiracial area. Eventually they broke through, ransacking shops and burning down a house, while local media reported that the violence had developed into “something like a fever”.Sound familiar? This isn’t Ballymena, the County Antrim town in Northern Ireland that has seen several nights of unrest in which immigrant homes were attacked after reports of an alleged sexual assault on a local girl by two teenagers, who had a Romanian interpreter read them the charges. These incidents actually took place more than a century ago, during the summer of 1919, as racial violence spread thro...

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2 w. ago Edinburgh crime: Man who dragged schoolgirl, 13, into woods and raped her is jailed for eight years

A man has been jailed for the serious sexual assault of a teenage girl in Edinburgh.

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2 w. ago Horror as teenage girl is 'sexually assaulted' while waiting at a village bus stop as man, 30, is arrested

The girl was allegedly approached by a man while she was waiting for a bus in the village of Longdowns near Penryn, Cornwall.

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on riots in Northern Ireland: racist violence does not express ‘legitimate grievance’ | Editorial

Politicians must analyse the forces behind mob unrest, but not in terms that make excuses for itA reputation for political violence is one reason Northern Ireland has historically attracted fewer immigrants than the rest of the UK. In that context, increasing diversity could be read as a measure of progress; a peace dividend after the Troubles. That isn’t how it has felt to families cowering in fear of racist mobs this week. The riots started in Ballymena, ostensibly triggered by the arrest of two boys, reported to be of Romanian origin, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. A community vigil mutated into a racist rampage. Masked thugs targeted the local migrant population. When police came to quell the pogrom, officers were attacked with bricks, fireworks, petrol bombs. There was contagion. Windows were smashed and a fire started at a leisure centre in nearby Larne that had been used as a temporary refuge for those fleeing the Ballymena violence. There were outbreaks of di...

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3 w. ago Riot police sent into Belfast: Petrol bombs thrown after sex crime vigil turned violent

Chaos unfolded in Ballymena, Co Antrim, in Northern Ireland, as 2,500 people gathered to show support for a female who was sexually assaulted. Two teenage boys, both 14, have been arrested and charged with attempted rape

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