Tag Archives: Victim

The world’s leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. A resolution passed by the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) states that Israel’s conduct meets the legal definition as laid out in the UN convention on genocide. Across a three-page resolution, the IAGS …

Brian FarmerBBC News, Hertfordshire, St Albans Crown Court PA Media Actor John Alford told police that two girls who accused him of sex offences were lying Former London’s Burning actor John Alford who has been accused of sexual offences by two teenagers fought back tears as he told a trial …

Police Scotland Richard Wilson, 28, carried out the attack in March last year A man has been jailed for 13 years for the attempted murder of an 84-year-old shopkeeper. Richard Wilson, 28, punched the man 18 times, stamped on his head and kneed him in the face. The victim suffered …

Becky MortonPolitical reporter Getty Images Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has backed his deputy Angela Rayner, as she continues to face Tory criticism over the purchase of a flat in Hove. The Daily Telegraph reported she saved £40,000 in stamp duty when buying the £800,000 flat in East Sussex, after …

A man has been jailed for four years and eight months after deliberately driving into two pedestrians, leaving one with life-changing injuries. Braden Lynam, of Woodborough Close in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, was sentenced on 29 August after previously pleading guilty at Winchester Crown Court in April. On March 27, Lynam, 22, …

A murder investigation has been launched at the Burning Man festival in the US state of Nevada after a man was found “lying in a pool of blood” on Saturday night, police say. A festival-goer stopped a police officer at around 21:14 (04:14 GMT) to alert him about the incident …

A new music award for young pipers and drummers has been set up in memory of a Scottish schoolgirl who died in the Manchester Arena bombing. The Eilidh MacLeod Access Fund will be run by the National Piping Centre and offer £2,000 a year to young musicians. Bagpiper Eilidh, from …

A British woman has been stabbed to death in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, police have said. Local media have named the victim as 34-year-old Jessica Cariad Hopkins. Deputy commissioner general and commissioner of Phnom Penh Police Chuon Narin said the victim was found dead with stab wounds near a …

Queen Camilla was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager, according to a new book about the Royal Family. The Queen is said to have fought off her attacker using the heel of her shoe. The attempted assault is recounted in Power and the Palace by the …

Revelations in a new book saying Queen Camilla was the victim of an attempted indecent assault as a teenager dominate Monday’s papers. The Daily Mail leads with the detail that the future Queen fought off her attacker on a train by “hitting him with her shoe”. Also splashed on the …

A 34-year-old British woman has been stabbed to death in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, local police say. The victim was reportedly found with stab wounds in a garden in the Chamkar Mon district south of the city centre on Friday. A woman, also a foreign national, has been arrested …

Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalised following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said. Mr Giuliani suffered “a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg” when his vehicle was struck from …

Two men have been stabbed at a central London Tube station within 24 hours in attacks that police believe are connected. British Transport Police were called to Oxford Circus station at 03:40 BST on Saturday and just after 01:30 BST on Sunday to reports of serious assaults. A 23-year-old man …

Police have launched a manhunt after a woman died following a fall from a block of flats. The woman died on Friday after she was injured falling from the building in Cuckmere Lane, Southampton, just before 14:45 BST on Thursday. Detectives are looking for a man who they believed was …

A man who is in hospital with life-threatening injuries is under arrest on suspicion of murder after the death of a 29-year-old woman in south-east London. The Metropolitan Police said officers responded to reports of a stabbing at a residential address in Trafalgar Road in Greenwich at around 22:20 BST …

A celebrity peer has been charged with rape and sexual assault. Lord Charles Brockett, was arrested on Friday and subsequently charged with two counts of rape in London on 10 August, said the Metropolitan Police. The 73-year-old, from Fulham, west London, was also charged with one count of sexual assault …

Three people have been killed and 103 others injured due to a train derailing while en route to the Egyptian capital Cairo, the country’s health ministry has said. The train had been travelling from the northern coastal city of Marsa Matruh when seven of its carriages came off the tracks …

[ Legionella pneumophila. Credit: public domain A New York City hospital and another city-run building were sources for a deadly outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in Harlem that killed seven people and sickened dozens of others, health officials announced Friday. The New York City Health Department said bacteria from cooling towers …

Mary McCoolBBC Scotland News BBC Ellie Wilson is a campaigner for survivors of male sexual violence A doctor has been arrested over claims he posted abusive tweets about his son’s rape victim, the BBC has learned. Dr Andrew McFarlane, a GP in the Highlands, was taken into custody on Wednesday …

Greg McKenzieBBC News, Woolwich Crown Court Metropolitan Police Chao Xu is believed to have sexually assaulted more women and police are urging them to come forward “A prolific, calculated sex offender” has admitted drugging and raping a woman four times, as well as sexual offences against five other women. Chao …