Crime

Campaigners fear that the sexual abuse of underage girls by teenage boys is becoming a ’socially accepted norm’ after more examples emerged of youth offenders being spared jail.

The mother and brother of Archie Battersbee have been jailed for a revenge attack in which they chased a motorist off the road and into a tree.

Victims of sexual offenses committed by children are being asked to "suck it up" for the sake of their attackers’ rehabilitation, the former safeguarding minister has said following the Fordingbridge rapes.

A woman has informed the Sir Jeffrey Donaldson trial that the former DUP leader touched her breasts “skin on skin” while she was a child.

A controlling abuser who stalked his former girlfriend using a tracker hidden in their young daughter’s scooter and stabbed her to death has been jailed for at least 30 years.

A Royal Navy officer who served on board a nuclear submarine wept in the dock as he was cleared of raping a colleague at the Faslane Naval Base on the Clyde.

Adult content creator Bonnie Blue has told LBC she believes the Fordingbridge rapists should be jailed as they have faced "no consequence" - but vehemently denies her videos contribute to misogynistic culture.

Two brothers accused of assaulting a police officer at Manchester Airport will not face a third trial after a jury failed to reach a verdict.

A Canadian man accused of selling lethal substances linked to the deaths of over 100 British people will not face justice in the UK, according to an announcement by the Crown Prosecution Service.

As Henry Nowak lay bleeding to death in the middle of a residential street in Southampton, his wrists were chained together by handcuffs.

A drug dealer-turned-award-winning probation officer has been convicted of killing her five-year-old stepdaughter by scalding her in a hot bath.

This is the moment when a young driver caused a multi-car pile-up after crashing into a vehicle while speeding on a dual carriageway.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a doctor was attacked while at work at Hillingdon Hospital yesterday.

A woman who was fatally shot outside a bar in Sheffield on Monday has been named as young mother-of-one Shanice Brookes.

LBC has learned that a woman who claims she was drugged and thrown into the River Thames by the Black Cab Rapist John Worboys was told by police they would not pursue her case because they "already had enough victims".

Two Algerian migrants who cruised wealthy tourist areas of London before trying to rob a wealthy Kuwaiti of his £15,000 Hublot watch outside a luxury hotel have been jailed.

The judge who spared a teenage rape gang from detention was challenged by the government last year for an "unduly lenient" sentence in another rape case.

A drugged up dad has lost custody of his six-year-old son after leaving him home alone while he was high on ketamine.

A serving police officer raped two women and subjected a third woman to prolonged abuse.

Rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has said she is “deeply shocked” at the punishment handed down to three teenage boys who avoided jail for their roles in the rape of two girls.

Linton Weirich, who was at HMP Wandsworth, spoke out to expose corruption, saying: “Officers don’t run jails any more — prisoners do.”

A leading surgeon has been suspended for having sex with a patient and prescribing her addictive painkillers.

An eight-year-old is among three people in hospital after a car was seen hitting pedestrians and crashing into a motorway service station.