Category: Violence against women and girls

Cooper says five grooming gang inquiries to go ahead after Tories claim they’ve been dropped in ‘cover up’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereDuring her BBC Breakfast interview Kemi Badenoch claimed that the government has dropped the plans for five local inquiries into grooming gang, or child rape scandals,...

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Cooper says five grooming gang inquiries to go ahead after Tories claim they’ve been dropped in ‘cover up’ – UK politics live

Home secretary rejects claims that plans for local inquiries are being watered down as Kemi Badenoch suggests some sort of cover up taking placeDuring her BBC Breakfast interview Kemi Badenoch claimed that the government has...

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Twenty-three more women contact Met police over serial rapist Zhenhao Zou

London PhD student convicted of 10 rapes may have 60 more victims, force fears More than 20 women have contacted police to say they fear they may have been attacked by the serial rapist Zhenhao Zou, with detectives fearing there...

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Online gangs of teenage boys sharing extreme material are ‘emerging threat’ in UK

National Crime Agency says such groups are fuelling crimes including fraud, violence and child sexual abuseBlackmailing girls and encouraging suicide: the young British men in online gangsTeenage boys are joining online gangs...

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John Hunt pays tribute to daughter’s bravery as killer jailed for life for triple murders

Kyle Clifford given whole life order for murders of Louise Hunt, her sister Hannah and their mother Carol in misogynistic attackA BBC presenter whose wife and two of their daughters were murdered by a misogynist with a crossbow...

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Ban pornography depicting strangulation, review urges UK ministers

Independent review also calls for ban on other ‘legal, but harmful’ material that is degrading, violent or misogynisticUK politics live – latest updatesPornography depicting strangulation should be made illegal...

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‘Revenge porn’ abusers allowed to keep devices with illicit images

Prosecutors in England and Wales are failing to obtain orders requiring the deletion of intimate content shared without consent, analysis revealsPerpetrators of “revenge porn” offences are being allowed to keep...

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Pilot of domestic abuse experts helping in 999 call rooms begins in England

Jess Phillips says ‘Raneem’s law’ scheme will support ‘force-wide cultural change’ as initial phase is rolled outDomestic abuse specialists embedded in control rooms receiving 999 emergency calls...

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Coercive control to be put on par with other types of domestic abuse in England and Wales

Police and probation services will be legally required to share with one another information that suggests offenders are risk to othersCoercive control is to be put on a par with other forms of domestic abuse in England and...

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