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Paedophile Football Coach Barry Bennell Charged With Child Sex Offences

November 29, 2016 World Justice News 0

Former football coach Barry Bennell has been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy aged under 14, prosecutors have said. The Crown Prosecution Service said it had received a file of evidence […]

Paedophile football coach Barry Bennell in hospital after he was found ‘unconscious and not breathing’ at hotel

November 28, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

Convicted paedophile Barry Bennell was believed to be receiving treatment in hospital on Monday after police were called to a ‘welfare incident’ at a hotel. The 62-year-old is understood to have been found unconscious and […]

Football sex abuse scandal: Top clubs ‘made secret payments to keep victims quiet’

November 26, 2016 WJN Administrator 0

Robert Mendick, chief reporter Ben Rumsby Top football clubs made secret payments to buy the silence of young players sexually abused by coaches, The Telegraph can disclose, as the growing scandal threatened to engulf the […]

Hacker faces more prison time than rapists

November 25, 2016 zoshinuk 0

A Kentucky man who, in 2012, hacked into an online account for followers of a Ohio high school’s football team to expose a gang rape of a teenage girl has pleaded guilty to charges associated […]

Prosecutors ask judge to sequester jury in Cardell Hayes’ trial

November 14, 2016 WJN Staff 0

On Monday (Nov. 14), State Prosecutors asked a New Orleans judge to order the sequestration of jurors empaneled for next month’s trial of Cardell Hayes, the man accused of murdering former Saints defensive star Will […]

Police Open Football Corruption Criminal Investigation

November 12, 2016 World Justice News 0

Police have launched a formal investigation into the football corruption allegations made by the Daily Telegraph in September. The City of London Police said the probe had begun after reviewing information collected by the newspaper. […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

Human Rights

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 […]