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Headteacher and Special Educational Needs Coodinator, Duggie Speight, has been charged with numerous child abuse offences. These include three charges of obtaining indecent images of…
Following his arrest in January 2021, Stephen Bear has now been formally charged with image-based sexual abuse (commonly referred to as ‘revenge porn’) offences. These…
On 30 April 2021, Mark Collins, a former Met Police Constable, was sentenced to two years and four months imprisonment for attempting to incite a…
Anyone can be a victim of domestic abuse, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, socio-economic status, sexuality or background. It affects the whole family, with children…
5.7 Sexual abuse in Girls’ Football The Review lists several cases in which the abuser had a role in football and abused girls outside of…
We are continuing to act on behalf of a number of clients in relation to alleged abuse by Peter Sherwin whilst at TS Stirling Sea…
Last week the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in our case of Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB (our…
The long awaited Independent Review into Child Sexual Abuse in Football of Clive Sheldon QC was published yesterday. I was surprised and dismayed to find…
Now that the Independent Review has concluded, it is time to take a look at what the Review said in relation to Frank Roper, a…
Following the publication of the FA report yesterday, Leicester City released a statement welcoming the recommendations in the report, expressing its deepest sympathies with survivors,…
Clive Sheldon QC’s report confirms that more “could and should have been done by Chelsea to confront Heath with respect to his abuse of the…
There is no doubt that Higgins’ most prolific abuse of children took place whilst he was at Southampton FC. Southampton’s report in to abuse, carried…
The Football Association launched an inquiry into childhood sexual abuse in December 2016 and this was as a result of Andy Woodward’s public disclosure of…
After years of campaigning, the Government has finally announced that the law surrounding positions of trust is to be changed so that sport coaches are…
Last week the Welsh government eased lockdown restrictions to allow an individual to meet one other person from another household to exercise in their local…
Joseph Palmer, a Sergeant in the Air Cadets (Thames Valley Wing) was sentenced to 28 months imprisonment in December 2020 for inciting children to send…
Sondhi targeted as many as 574 victims, who were based all over the world, reflecting the power and devastation that offenders can wield in an…
On 21st December 2020, Reverend John Roberts was convicted of sexual abuse offences. He had been the reverend at St Peter’s Church, Woolton, Liverpool. St…
On Wednesday 25th November, a former Eton College teacher was found guilty of eight counts of sexual activity with a child. Matthew Mowbray, went into…
On 23rd November 2020, at Minshull Street Crown Court, Graham Avison, an ex-Scout leader was sentenced to more than five years imprisonment after pleading guilty…
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