Browsing: Rape

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…

An overhaul of the way police investigate rape is being put at risk by a lack of awareness in courtrooms in England and Wales, the government’s…

At Gisèle Pelicot’s new home on Île de Ré off France’s Atlantic coast, she likes to take bracing walks along the beach in all weathers, play…

US prosecutors reviewed allegations of rape and bodily harm against the former Barclays boss and former JP Morgan banker Jes Staley, according to newly unsealed files…