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Ex-world snooker champion Graeme Dott jailed for child sex abuse

September 29, 2026 World Justice News 0

Former world snooker champion Graeme Dott has been jailed for seven years for historical child sex abuse. Warning: This article contains details of child sexual abuse. The shamed sportsman denied any wrongdoing but was last […]

Scottish child sex abuse gang given life sentences

January 28, 2025 World Justice News 0

The seven members of one of Scotland’s biggest child sex abuse rings have been given life-long sentences and warned that they may never be released. Three victims under the age of 13 were subjected to […]

Catfish killer Alexander McCartney jailed for minimum of 20 years

October 26, 2024 World Justice News 0

It was a phone call from a 13-year-old girl in Scotland in 2019 that eventually led to the capture of a social media predator described as one of the world’s most prolific child sex abusers. […]

Criminal used AI to make sex abuse images of child Disney star

August 5, 2024 World Justice News 0

A Disney Channel child star has told Sky News that she “broke down in tears” after learning a criminal had used artificial intelligence (AI) to create sexual abuse images using her face. Kaylin Hayman, who […]

R Kelly loses appeal to overturn 20-year sentence for child sex abuse

April 27, 2024 World Justice News 0

R Kelly’s challenge against a 20-year sentence for child sex convictions has been quashed by an appeals court. The singer was correctly sentenced to 20 years in prison, a Chicago court ruled on Friday. He […]

Mechanic from Cheshire jailed for 16 years for role in child sex abuse website

February 15, 2024 World Justice News 0

A mechanic who helped run one of the dark web’s biggest child sex abuse websites has been jailed for 16 years after he was convicted under organised crime laws in the first case of its […]

Michael Jackson lawsuits alleging sexual abuse against boys revived by appeals court

August 20, 2023 World Justice News 0

Two men who allege Michael Jackson sexually abused them when they were boys should not have had their cases dismissed, judges at a US court have said. Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim Jackson […]

R. Kelly: Disgraced R&B star guilty of child abuse

September 15, 2022 World Justice News 0

Disgraced 55-year-old R&B star R. Kelly has been found guilty of child sexual abuse in his second federal trial. The jury convicted the 55-year-old on six out of 13 counts after a four-week case in […]

Actress Zara Phythian and husband jailed for child sex offences

May 16, 2022 World Justice News 0

A film actress and her martial arts instructor husband have been jailed for child sex offences. Zara Phythian – who appeared in Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch – sexually abused a 13-year-old girl together with […]

Radlett anaesthetist jailed for arranging child sex abuse

April 2, 2022 World Justice News 0

An NHS consultant anaesthetist who was caught by police while arranging to sexually abuse a seven-year-old girl has been jailed for 28 months. Mark Carrington, 49, of Radlett, Hertfordshire, admitted arranging the commission of a […]

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Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]

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Christa Pike set to be first woman executed in Tennessee in 200 years still alive after two lethal injections

October 1, 2026 0

A Tennessee death row inmate set to be the first woman to be executed by the state in more than 200 years is still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyers have said. […]

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Killer Christa Pike is to be executed within days – but her defence say she’s a victim too

September 27, 2026 0

Ashlee Sellars last heard from her friend Christa Pike earlier this week, when Pike texted her from her cell on death row as she prepares to be killed by lethal injection by the US state […]