Care worker who helped boss with child abuse jailed for 25 years

Malcolm Phillips, 93, is given an absolute discharge, while Linda Brunning is jailed for 25 years.

France's justice minister rules out resigning over lapses in girl killing case

Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin said he had ordered the country's prosecutors to re-examine ongoing legal complaints, after the suspected killer of Lyhanna was found to have been the subject of several previous complaints.

A Murder Between Friends review – Joan Collins’s detective diva sparkles in trashy whodunnit

Hot tubs and high camp as a TV star dripping in rhinestones tries to solve a real-life crime in this fabulously flawed murder mystery. Who cares who did it Here is a camply craptastic murder mystery that aims to offer queer-minded fans of trashy detection stories a treat for Pride month with a manifestly cheap and cheerful, amusingly badly performed, diva-centric exercise. Let us be clear: this is not well-made in the slightest, with a script as shonky as a flatpack gateleg table, with simila...

By Leslie Felperin

French justice system on trial as nation rages at failure to prevent schoolgirl’s murder

French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has ordered public prosecutors to review 70,000 allegations of violence against minors, by July 14, amid fury at the death of an 11-year-old schoolgirl that has exposed cracks in the country’s judicial system.

By Benjamin DODMAN

French prosecutors ordered to review all child abuse complaints after girl's murder

French Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin has ordered a review of all complaints involving child victims of sexual violence in France after the death of an 11-year-old girl allegedly killed by a man who had previously been accused of rape and sexual assault of other children but had never been convicted.

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Prosecutors seek 27-year sentence for suspect in murder of Hokkaido girl

Public prosecutors have alleged that Riko Uchida and others "applied some physical force" to the high school girl, who was embroiled in a dispute over social media photos.

Image-Based Abuse on the Rise in Greece, But so Often Unpunished

Cases of non-consensual intimate image sharing in Greece are on the rise, but the perpetrators too often escape punishment amid widespread victim-blaming and social stigma.

By Eleni Stamatoukou

Authorities should not need parents' consent for child abuse investigation: Ruling party

The interest and safety of a child must be the priorities when there are suspicions of child abuse, according to D66.

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