Log In

More work has to be done to prevent the “grooming” of children by sex offenders, a charity has warned. Debi Ray-Rivers, the founder of child protection agency Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, said more people needed to be aware of the danger s...

A 34-year-old Warwick man denied a sex offence yesterday in Magistrates’ Court. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, entered a not guilty plea to a charge that, on a date unknown between September 3, 2016, and September 2, 2018, being in a...

Two men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with a serious sex assault on a schoolgirl 25 years ago. A 67-year-old man from St George’s and a 56-year-old man from Smith’s were accused of assault on a girl aged under 14. The incident is a...

If you knew nothing of the man who showed up to a New York courthouse on Monday — if you didn’t realise that dozens of women had accused him of assault, if you hadn’t read their nauseating accounts — then you might have assumed he was there to disput...

A 36-year-old man denied a sex assault from 18 years ago. The Warwick man, pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a woman on an unknown date in April 2002 in Warwick. The man and the alleged victim cannot be identified for legal reasons. Magistrat...

A sex offender released just months ago was back behind bars yesterday after it was alleged he breached a supervision order. Junius Caines appeared in the Supreme Court, where it was claimed he had broken his curfew, failed a urine test for drugs and...

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was observed on November 25, and its intent and messaging is being amplified with a worldwide campaign against gender-based violence culminating today — on Human Rights Day. The Uni...

Compulsory police background checks should be carried out on anyone who wants to work with children, the head of a child protection charity said yesterday. Debi Ray-Rivers, the director of Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, said that police vetti...

A man imprisoned this year for the rape of a 15-year-old girl more than 30 years ago has lost an appeal against his conviction. Morris O’Brien argued that his lawyer, Kamal Worrell, had failed to follow his instructions about the cross-examination of...

A coalition of social services agencies has called for restorative justice in cases where young people are convicted of sexual offences. The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families said people convicted of sexual offences, particularly those...

A young woman has told of the lasting impact on her after she was the victim at age 14 in a case of unlawful carnal knowledge. She said she continues to suffer years after her virginity was taken in 2014 by Malik Zuill, now 22, who was sentenced to 1...

On January 28, 2014, Malik Zuill changed my life for ever by forcefully taking my innocence. I was 14 years old and in my first year at the Berkeley Institute. I would admit he and I had communicated via Facebook and WhatsApp for a couple of months ...