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Rapist Northumbria Police officer’s prison release sparks outcry

August 6, 2018 World Justice News 0

A Northumbria Police officer handed two life sentences in prison in 2011 for rape has been released, it has emerged. Stephen Mitchell was found guilty of carrying out sex attacks on vulnerable women he met […]

India WhatsApp ‘child kidnap’ rumours claim two more victims

June 11, 2018 World Justice News 0

Indian police have arrested 16 people after two men became the latest victims of hysteria over WhatsApp rumours of child kidnappers. The men had stopped to ask directions in north-eastern Assam state when they were […]

Boy, 11, arrested over rape of seven-year-old

May 26, 2018 World Justice News 0

An 11-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of raping a seven-year-old boy in a village. Dorset Police said the victim was being supported by specialist officers following an attack at an “outside location” in […]

Harvey Weinstein released on $1m bail over rape and abuse charges

May 26, 2018 World Justice News 0

Former Hollywood film mogul Harvey Weinstein has been released on $1m (£751,000) bail after being charged in New York with rape and sexual abuse. Mr Weinstein, 66, also agreed to wear a GPS tracker and […]

US tax agent ‘raped intern at gunpoint’

April 5, 2018 World Justice News 0

A Boston tax agent accused of handcuffing a young intern in his car, putting a gun in her mouth and raping her last summer has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors claim James Clarke invited a 21-year-old […]

M25 rapist Antoni Imiela dies in prison aged 63

March 9, 2018 World Justice News 0

A serial sex attacker dubbed the M25 rapist has died in prison. Antoni Imiela, 63, who preyed upon women and girls across south-east England, was given seven life terms in 2004. In January, it emerged […]

Celine Dookhran trial: Accused denies sex fantasy claim

February 1, 2018 World Justice News 0

A builder accused of rape and murder has denied acting out sex fantasies upon two women. Mujahid Arshid, 33, was allegedly caught by an undercover officer offering up a teenage “girlfriend” for sex on the […]

Oklahoma blind man who brutally raped girl, 13, is spared jail

January 31, 2018 World Justice News 0

Rape prevention groups are in uproar after a legally blind man in the US state of Oklahoma was spared prison time after he raped a 13-year-old girl. Benjamin Lawrence Petty, 36, admitted tying rope round […]

Oxford student Oliver Mears rape case dropped after two years

January 19, 2018 World Justice News 0

The case against an Oxford University student who had a rape charge “hanging over his head” for two years has been dropped on the eve of his trial. Oliver Mears had been on bail since […]

Man appears in court accused of 1972 sex attack

September 19, 2017 World Justice News 0

A man accused of raping and kidnapping an 18-year-old woman more than 40 years ago has appeared in court. Peter Pickering, 79, is charged with the rape and false imprisonment of the woman in Deepcar, […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]