“A teenager who sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl while on bail awaiting trial for the rape of a 10-year-old girl, can now be named.”
BBC News, 26th January 2010
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“The government is invoking an obscure legal principle to dismiss claims of torture and rape by the British colonial administration in Kenya, campaigners claimed.”
The Guardian, 25th January 2010
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“One of the three people jailed over the death of Baby Peter has lost an appeal against his conviction for the rape of a two-year-old.”
BBC News, 21st January 2010
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“A rape case against five men collapsed after a court heard that the female victim had spoken online about taking part in group sex.”
Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2010
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A 39-year-old man who raped a 17-year-old girl in Milton Keynes has been jailed for at least seven years.”
BBC News, 20th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A convicted murderer has been jailed for life for raping a woman seven months after he was released from prison on parole.”
BBC News, 16th December 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) solicitors considered the cases of 6,597 people, the vast majority of whom were men, arrested for rape in 2008-9.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th December 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Drunken men who demand sex from their wives or girlfriends should be treated as rapists and no longer allowed to claim their judgment was blurred by alcohol, according to the head of the government’s review of the rape laws.”
The Guardian, 14th December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A 21-year-old man who raped an elderly woman in a cemetery has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 11th December 2009
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“A bogus forensic scientist who conned his way into hundreds of trials has been jailed indefinitely after being unmasked as a child sex predator.”
The Independent, 11th December 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“A rapist who photographed himself abusing a girl has failed in an attempt to reduce his jail term.”
BBC News, 4th December 2009
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“The country’s first dedicated rape intelligence unit has been set up within the Metropolitan police promising to identify and track down serial attackers, in response to a series of high-profile failures that left prolific sex offenders free to prey on hundreds of women.”
The Guardian, 2nd December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Offender’s sentence is increased from 10 years to a sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection.”
Attorney General’s Office, 26th November 2009
Source: www.attorneygeneral.gov.uk
“A police force has admitted failing a woman whose allegation of rape was not investigated because her case notes were left under piles of paperwork on a detective’s desk, the Guardian has learned. In the first known case of its kind in the UK, the woman launched legal proceedings against Cambridgeshire police, claiming its lack of action had breached her human rights, after she discovered the rape had not been recorded as a crime.”
The Guardian, 1st December 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man who raped a drunk teenager as she walked home from a party in Manchester has been jailed indefinitely.”
BBC News, 30th November 2009
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“A former soldier from North Yorkshire who raped a woman outside a nightclub in Preston nearly 11 years ago has been jailed for seven years.”
BBC news, 27th November 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Police officers are still refusing to take complaints of rape seriously if the victims come from ‘the wrong part of town’, if they have been drinking or if they have made previous allegations, according to a report by Sara Payne, the national victims’ champion.”
The Guardian, 25th November 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A review of rape victims’ experiences of the criminal justice system, published today, has been welcomed by the Home Secretary Alan Johnson.”
Home Office, 25th November 2009
Source: www.homeoffice.gov.uk
“One of the trio jailed over the death of Baby Peter is challenging his conviction for the rape of a two-year-old girl at the Court of Appeal today.”
The Independent, 24th November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Rapists will continue to walk free from British courts in the future, the peer leading a government review of sex crime admitted this weekend.”
The Independent, 22nd November 2009
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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