All news on the topic: Domestic abuse

A husband ’broke down in tears’ as he pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his wife without her knowledge over a period of more than two decades.

A husband has pleaded guilty to drugging and raping his wife for more than two decades without her knowledge.

Jack Shepherd, known as the speedboat killer, has been jailed for violently assaulting his girlfriend.

Victims of domestic violence and charities are urging the government to stop abusive perpetrators being eligible for early release from prison.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has admitted attacking a new partner following his release from prison.

Divorce is a difficult process, and dividing up finances is one of the trickiest and more fraught aspects. Judges tasked with deciding how to split a couple’s money and assets look at a number of things, including their earnings and how long they’ve been together.

Speedboat killer Jack Shepherd has been charged by police with attacking a new girlfriend, new parole board documents reveal.

Senior MI5 officers could be prosecuted for lying during a court case about a neo-Nazi agent on their payroll.

A man aged in his 40s has admitted 32 sexual offences against his girlfriend who was allegedly drugged or asleep - the offences happened from January 2014 to September last year

A man who raped and murdered his estranged wife and staged a scene to make her death look like a suicide has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 33 years in his absence after he refused to enter the courtroom.

The last British woman to be hanged, executed in 1955 for murdering her partner, on Wednesday had her sentence symbolically commuted to ‌life imprisonment by King Charles, on advice from the government that she had suffered an "historical injustice".

The eldest daughter of a garda charged with rape and child cruelty has said the family home had ‘an atmosphere of violence and threats” and it felt like living in a military barracks growing up.

In the family courts of England and Wales, justice is rarely seen. While real progress has been made towards making the courts more transparent, only a tiny fraction of cases are actually reported on.

Football agent Bradley Hudson-Odoi has avoided jail after terrorising two women with vile threats.

A jealous stalker set up a fake Tinder profile claiming she had ‘a rape fantasy’ to lure men to her home.

Sarah Pochin, the Reform MP for Runcorn and Helsby, made the claim in a video posted on social media after England beat Croatia.

Family courts are home to an “alarming prevalence” of victim blaming and bias – predominantly impacting mothers – according to researchers we spoke to following the publication of a new report.

A truck driver accused of murdering his teen girlfriend by crushing her against a lamppost has told a jury that he lied about a hit-and-run because he "panicked".

A violent rapist who carried out a catalogue of abuse and brutality towards women has been jailed for nine years after putting victims through “a horrific ordeal”.

A man has been sentenced to life behind bars for the murder of his partner and causing a gas explosion at the couple’s north London home.

An electrician who stabbed a judge’s daughter to death in a frenzied rage before blowing up their home in a gas explosion has been found guilty of murder.

A new law being introduced to parliament today aims to close a loophole that has forced domestic abuse victims living in social housing to either stay in harm’s way or risk homelessness.

More than a fifth of those arrested in the 2024 summer riots were subsequently accused of domestic abuse, new figures show.

As officers arrive outside a Victorian terraced home in east London, they take note of the number plate of the car parked on the driveway.