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Bereaved families of Grenfell Tower disaster victims may have to wait years for prosecutions as Met Police believe it could take 18 months to assess findings in tomorrow’s landmark report
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Bereaved families of Grenfell Tower disaster victims may have to wait years for prosecutions as Met Police believe it could take 18 months to assess findings in tomorrow’s landmark report

Families of the Grenfell Tower disaster victims may have to wait years for prosecutions, regardless of the strength of failings identified in today’s landmark report into what went wrong. The Metropolitan Police are still investigating a range of possible offences including corporate manslaughter and gross negligence manslaughter, as well health and safety issues. But they

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Leon Brittan’s widow blasts police watchdog over how it has yet again ‘failed’ victims of Scotland Yard’s disastrous VIP abuse inquiry
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Leon Brittan’s widow blasts police watchdog over how it has yet again ‘failed’ victims of Scotland Yard’s disastrous VIP abuse inquiry

By Stephen Wright Associate Editor Published: 17:30 EDT, 2 September 2024 | Updated: 23:41 EDT, 2 September 2024 Leon Brittan’s widow has launched a stinging attack on the police watchdog over how it has yet again ‘failed’ victims of Scotland Yard’s disastrous VIP abuse inquiry. Lady Brittan made her comments as the tenth anniversary of

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Victims of the 1992 Ajmer rape and blackmail case get justice after 32 years
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Victims of the 1992 Ajmer rape and blackmail case get justice after 32 years

Santosh Gupta Some of the men accused of raping and blackmailing women in Rajasthan in 1992 “My heart is filled with so much pain. Even today, I cry when I think about how that one encounter destroyed my life.” The year was 1992. Sushma* said she was 18 when a man she knew took her

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Families of school shooting victims slam Harris’ ‘sickening’ unearthed comments
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Families of school shooting victims slam Harris’ ‘sickening’ unearthed comments

Loved ones of students killed in school shootings slammed Vice President Kamala Harris after unearthed comments from 2019 surfaced this week, detailing that Harris supports removing police officers from schools.  “My brother was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting because of liberal policies like the one Kamala is pushing here… I wish there

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Fraudsters used names and addresses of unsuspecting victims to get their hands on £8,000 of mobile phones
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Fraudsters used names and addresses of unsuspecting victims to get their hands on £8,000 of mobile phones

Fraudsters have used the names and addresses of victims to get their hands on almost £8,000 worth of mobiles A court heard that the stolen identities were used to apply for phone contracts.   One of the identity fraudsters attended seven stores across Kent, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, West Sussex, London and Berkshire. Prosecutors told how an innocent

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Deadpool Killer Wade Wilson learns his fate for grisly murder of two women as victims’ families speak out
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Deadpool Killer Wade Wilson learns his fate for grisly murder of two women as victims’ families speak out

The so-called ‘Deadpool killer’ who brutally murdered two women in 2019 appeared stoic in court as he learned his fate on Tuesday. Wade Wilson, 30, who shares a name with the Marvel mercenary, showed no emotion as Florida County Circuit Judge Nicholas R Thompson ruled that he would face two death sentences – one for

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Teen infected with ultra-deadly ‘eye-bleeding’ virus that kills a third of its victims
Health

Teen infected with ultra-deadly ‘eye-bleeding’ virus that kills a third of its victims

 A 14 year-old boy has contracted a lethal infection that kills 30 per cent of patients and causes horrific symptoms such as bleeding from the eyes. The teenager infected with the virus, called Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF), is currently being isolated in hospital.  The disease, which causes multiple organ failure, is spread via bites from infected

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Domestic violence victims criticise film promotion
Entertainment

Domestic violence victims criticise film promotion

Reuters Blake Lively (left) has drawn criticism for how she’s been promoting her new film about domestic violence “This message is for Blake Lively. Hi Blake. I’m a domestic violence survivor and my heart honestly just broke for the domestic violence community because in this movie, you represented us.” In a TikTok video that’s been

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Revealed: The tragic final moments of the victims of the superyacht disaster – as divers reveal the heartbreaking scenes they found when trying to retrieve the bodies
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Revealed: The tragic final moments of the victims of the superyacht disaster – as divers reveal the heartbreaking scenes they found when trying to retrieve the bodies

Passengers on the doomed Bayesian superyacht scrambled desperately for the last remaining air pockets as the vessel sank to the seabed, investigators believe. But while five of the victims’ bodies were recovered from one cabin, the youngest, 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, was found alone in a bedroom two doors away, it emerged yesterday. The horrific last

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Hannah Lynch’s body was found on her own in yacht cabin after five others including her tech tycoon father Mike were discovered in separate compartment, dive chief reveals after Bayesian sinking victims made last desperate attempt to escape stricken vessel
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Hannah Lynch’s body was found on her own in yacht cabin after five others including her tech tycoon father Mike were discovered in separate compartment, dive chief reveals after Bayesian sinking victims made last desperate attempt to escape stricken vessel

Hannah Lynch, the 18-year-old daughter of tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, was found alone  in her own cabin 50 metres below the surface of the Mediterranean after the yacht she was on sank, rescue workers have said. Five others, including her father, were found in a separate compartment on the Bayesian superyacht, fire service commander Girolamo

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