A serving Met Police officer has been charged with rape. PC Ireland Murdock allegedly attacked his victim in Lambeth while he was off duty on 25 September last year. He was arrested on 11 January […]
A woman who said “dismissive” police told her “nothing would come” out of reporting being raped after her drink was spiked has received £8,000 damages. She said her treatment by Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was […]
Guatemala’s highest court has sentenced five former paramilitaries to 30 years in prison for raping dozens of indigenous Mayan women during the country’s civil war in the 1980s. The men were members of so-called Civil […]
Sex crimes are notoriously difficult to prosecute – but one woman in Kansas is using a rarely used 19th Century law to ask her fellow citizens to help bring charges against the man she says […]
A footballer has been jailed for 24 years for “gruesome” sex attacks on six victims as young as seven. Jonathan Diba-Musangu, 23, who used to be on Rochdale AFC’s books, raped the seven-year-old girl in […]
US adult film star Ron Jeremy has been indicted on 34 counts of sexual crimes involving 21 women, spanning more than 20 years, Los Angeles prosecutors say. Prosecutors allege that Mr Jeremy assaulted the women, […]
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to rape and sexual assault charges in a Los Angeles court. He appeared in court in a wheelchair after being extradited from New York, where he […]
A Met Police officer has admitted kidnapping and raping Sarah Everard. The 33-year-old vanished as she walked home in Clapham, south London, on 3 March. Her body was found a week later in woodland near […]
Lawyers for disgraced US film producer Harvey Weinstein have launched an appeal against his conviction for rape and sexual assault. Weinstein, 69, was convicted in New York City in February 2020 and later sentenced to […]
The Court of Appeal has dismissed a legal challenge against the Crown Prosecution Service over its policy on prosecuting serious sexual offences. End Violence Against Women had said the CPS’ move away from a “merits-based […]
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