9 h. ago Woman raped in homeless hotel by man who pretended to be worker

“There was literally no security keeping men away from women."

Society

17 h. ago Trial begins for Salvadoran fugitive accused in deadly attack of Maryland hiker

A fugitive from El Salvador is on trial in the rape and murder of a Maryland woman who was attacked on a hiking trail in 2023

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19 h. ago Top football agent arrested at Heathrow on suspicion of rape

Senior figure in football was arrested by officers following allegation of rape and grievous bodily harm against a woman at an address in London in 2017

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51 h. ago Man arrested after German woman alleges rape by driver in India

Suspect offered to give tourist and local friend ride to nearby market but took her to a secluded spot instead, police say

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52 h. ago Vulnerable woman driven to remote location and raped by twisted taxi driver

"The public place their trust in taxi drivers... For your own sexual needs, you shattered those boundaries and caused significant harm to your victim."

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66 h. ago Woman whose rape lies got innocent man jailed receives disgustingly light sentence

A woman who admitted to lying about a man attempting to rape and kidnapping received an incredibly light sentence after an innocent man spent a month in jail.

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67 h. ago Gang of four boys aged 15 to 17 who 'raped woman in alleyway' are accompanied to court by their mothers

A gang of teenage boys charged with raping a woman in a town centre alleyway appeared before a district judge today, after being accompanied into court by their mothers.

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3 d. ago Christian pastor in India gets life in jail for 2018 rape of woman

Bajinder Singh’s private church counts Bollywood celebrities among patrons and claims to have branches in UK, US and Canada

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3 d. ago Russian woman who told soldier husband to rape Ukrainian women sentenced as she remains on 'most wanted list'

Olga Bykovskaya was recorded telling her soldier husband that it was okay for him to rape Ukrainian women as he invaded the country as long as he "uses protection"

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4 d. ago Cyprus court drops all rape charges against 5 Israelis after doubting British woman's credibility

A Cyprus court has dropped all charges against five Israelis accused of gang-raping a British woman in a hotel room after ruling her testimony as not credible and replete with “fundamental contradictions.”

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4 d. ago Gary Glitter declared bankrupt after refusing to pay more than £500,000 to woman he raped when she was 12

Glitter, real name Paul Francis Gadd, was ordered last year to pay £508,800 damages to a woman he abused when she was aged 12.

Economics

4 d. ago Gary Glitter left bankrupt after refusing to pay damages to woman he raped when she was 12

Disgraced rocker Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt.

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4 d. ago Gary Glitter bankrupt after refusing to pay damages to woman he raped when she was 12

Disgraced rocker Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt after refusing to pay £508,000 in damages, allowing lawyers for his victims to access his assets - including a £2million London penthouse

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4 d. ago ‘Depraved’ sexual predator who raped woman and secretly filmed others is jailed

Police said Craig France targeted young women at nightclubs and took them to his home where he had set up hidden cameras.

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5 d. ago Teenager arrested after woman is raped in park after night out

The man, aged 19, is alleged to have taken the woman to the park before carrying out the sexual assault.

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5 d. ago Man, 19, is arrested after teenage girl was raped in park after a night out

A woman in her late teens was raped after she met a man while on a night out in Banbury, the man took her to a park in the town where he raped her in the early hours of this morning.

Events

5 d. ago Teenage woman raped in UK family park in middle of the night

Police say the woman is now being supported by specially trained officers

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7 d. ago Former Brazil footballer Dani Alves has rape conviction quashed after appeal

Ex-player was initially sentenced in February 2024Court rules unanimously that conviction was unsafeThe former Brazil international Dani Alves has had his conviction for rape overturned on appeal.In February 2024, a court sentenced Alves to a minimum sentence of four years and six months for the rape of a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. As he had already spent more than a year on remand, Alves was released under legal supervision shortly afterwards. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Gang of four boys aged 15 to 17 who 'raped woman in churchyard alleyway' are to appear in court

The boys, two aged 15 and two aged 17, are accused of carrying out the sex attack in an alleyway off St Mary's Memorial Gardens in Newark on December 28, 2023.

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1 week ago Trump’s show of support for Conor McGregor is making fertile ground for Ireland’s far right | Justine McCarthy

The fighter won’t be Irish president any time soon, but the Trumpocracy seems to think it can shift the country’s politics by endorsing himMiddle Ireland feels grievously insulted by the US president. On St Patrick’s Day, when the globe traditionally turns green, Donald Trump’s official guest at the White House was not the taoiseach bearing a bowl of shamrock, but an unelected stooge recently found by a civil court jury liable for the rape of a woman in a Dublin hotel. Fear and loathing of the mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor, who is facing civil trial in the US for alleged sexual assault of another woman in Florida, is one of middle Ireland’s most unifying forces.“We couldn’t think of a better guest to have with us on St Patrick’s Day,” gushed Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt on 17 March, rubbing salt in the wound. McGregor was given access to the Pentagon, met the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, the health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, and the national security...

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