Browsing: Rape

Appeal judges would be unlikely to criticise the attorney general, Richard Hermer, if he asked them to review “unusual” non-custodial sentences handed to three teenage boys…

The government is urgently reviewing the “unduly lenient” sentences given to three teenage boys who avoided custody for the rape of two girls.The MP Jess Phillips,…

Activists released from Israeli custody after being detained on a flotilla trying to take aid to Gaza were subjected to abuse, organisers have alleged, with several…

Violence against women is “at breaking point” and the justice system needs to change, according to the writer of new ITV drama Believe Me about the…

The European parliament has called on the EU to draw up a standardised consent-based definition of rape, in what legislators described as a crucial step towards…

One of Britain’s most shocking miscarriages of justice began before dawn on a summer day in Salford more than 20 years ago.A young woman had walked…

A man who evaded justice for more than two decades has been found guilty of the “horrific” 2003 rape for which Andrew Malkinson was wrongfully jailed…

A woman who was sexually assaulted by a man who was handed a key card to her room at a Travelodge has said she was shocked…

Sitting in the House of Commons, waiting for the speaker to call her name last week, the MP Charlotte Nichols was doing breathing exercises to try…

An MP has told the House of Commons that she was raped after an event that she attended as a member of parliament, revealing that she…