Thousands of men are participating in chat groups in which they share suggestions on how to rape and sexually assault women, a German investigation has revealed. The groups, on the instant messaging service Telegram, have as many as 70,000 members who mostly communicate with one another in English and appear to come from a variety … Read more
The daughter of convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot has screamed that her father will “die alone like a dog” after he insisted he had never abused her. Pelicot has admitted to drugging his wife of 50 years, Gisèle, and inviting dozens of strangers he met online to rape her. He has been found guilty of aggravated … Read more
The UK’s youngest murderers since James Bulger’s killing have been handed longer sentences after judges agreed that their original terms were too lenient. The two boys, now 13, were given life sentences with minimum terms of eight and a half years for the murder of 19-year-old Shawn Seesahai in Wolverhampton on Nov 13 last year. … Read more
Dominique Pelicot has been found guilty by a French court of repeatedly drugging and raping his wife for almost a decade, and inviting dozens of strangers to rape her unconscious body in a case that has horrified the world. All of Pelicot’s 50 co-defendants were also found guilty of rape, attempted rape or sexual assault, … Read more
Gisele Pelicot, the 72-year-old victim of mass rape whose ordeal has shocked the world, has thanked supporters after 51 men were sentenced for the rapes and sexual assaults. Her ex-husband Dominique Pelicot was found guilty on Thursday of drugging her and recruiting dozens of men to rape her over the course of a decade and … Read more
The family of slain teen Shawn Seesahai says “justice has been served” after a court increased the sentences of his two murderers, the UK’s youngest knife killers. Three Court of Appeal judges ruled on Thursday that the eight-and-a-half year minimum terms of the life sentences given to two boys, who are both now 13, were … Read more
Gisèle Pelicot said she respects the verdict handed out by an Avignon court after her ex-husband and 50 co-defendants were collectively sentenced to more than 400 years in prison. Ms Pelicot’s children had said they were “disappointed” by the “low sentences” handed out to Dominique Pelicot’s co-defendants who took part in the mass rape and … Read more
The 50 men on trial for raping unconscious grandmother Gisèle Pelicot in a ten-year campaign of sordid secret attacks orchestrated by her husband have been dubbed “Monsieur Tout-le-monde” — Mr Everyman. They are men of all walks of life, ranging in age from 27 to 74, who answered Dominique Pelicot’s invitation to abuse his drugged wife … Read more
The sister of a murdered 15-year-old boy brandished her brother’s ashes at his killers during their sentencing hearing, demanding they do not forget him. Mason Rist and his best friend, Max Dixon, 16, were attacked by four armed teenagers in case of mistaken identity in the Knowle West area of Bristol earlier this year. The … Read more
A drug addict who traumatised a nine-year-old boy by abandoning him in a dark wood has been spared jail. Ashley McGovern, 31, drove the child, who had a fear of the dark, into the countryside near her then home in East Lothian before leaving him on his own. McGovern went on to claim that the … Read more