All news on the topic: Justice

Almost 90,000 Britons will become victims of crime thanks to Labour’s prison release plan, new analysis suggests.

Ex-pop star Gary Glitter has appeared in court charged with sexual offences dating back to the 1970s against a girl aged between eight and 11.

Rapists could be banned from getting an early release from prison under plans being considered by the Prime Minister, it has been reported.

There’s a Turkish saying, “Silivri soğuktur”: Silivri is cold. You’ll hear it from journalists, politicians and activists after they say something critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government.

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".

Ghislaine Maxwell argued in a new court filing that Jeffrey Epstein documents released this year contained evidence her rights were violated before she was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping the late financier sexually abuse teenage girls.

The 79-year-old man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, went on trial charged with 74 counts of sexually abusing four girls.

As businessman Aliaksei Aleksin’s influence grew in Belarus, leaked documents reveal how cash flowed between his energy firms, two Cypriot companies, and his personal bank account in a series of complex transactions involving loans with no clear commercial rationale and a series of canceled oil contracts.

A British couple arrested yesterday for abandoning their children at their Costa del Sol hotel ‘to go out partying’ have been sentenced.

A man and a teenager have been charged after a 12-year-old boy was hit by a vehicle and died.

An event in London alleged to be offering opportunities to buy settlement land in Occupied Palestinian Territories faces growing calls to be shut down.

Sex abuse survivors will meet with the Prime Minister on Wednesday as part of a push for greater accountability for what they described as “decades of institutional rape and sexual abuse” associated with Harrods.

The men of my tribe [extended family] threw my relative Kawthar Bashar al-Husayjawi, 15, into a pit and covered her body with a bit of dirt.

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

Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office reports that unknown individuals copied 600,000 records from the Register Centre’s database.

A teacher labeled as Scotland’s Jimmy Savile racially abused a student while carrying out brutal attacks. Iain Wares faces dozens of charges, including rape, against 68 boys aged between eight and 13 from 1968-79 when he taught at Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College.

A Paris appeals court has blocked the extradition of the late dictator’s 33-year-old daughter, who was arrested last fall on charges of laundering her father’s illicit wealth.

Nahom Medhanie was shot dead in a car outside Euston Station in London - Metropolitan Police officers were called to reports of gunshots at 11pm on Saturday.

The infamous Hennessy mob laughed and joked their way through court proceedings - the Dublin gangsters have finally been brought to justice.

Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have called on the government to stop companies implicated in the disaster from receiving public contracts, after it was revealed several were still in receipt of multimillion-pound deals.

A group of MPs and peers have urged the incoming Archbishop of Canterbury to prevent the Church of England from spending £100 million on slavery reparations.