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Rape and sexual assault

October 2024

  • Children of the Cult.

    Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors

    Courageously covering what Netflix’s Wild Wild Country didn’t, this film confronts those who ran the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh meditation centres with the shocking testimonies of its child victims

28 September 2024

  • Mohamed al Fayed with Michael Cole leaving the High Court, London, following a preliminary hearing for the inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed

    Weekend
    Marina Hyde on Al Fayed and Diddy’s enablers, the hidden life of Elizabeth Taylor, and Philippa Perry on embracing anger – podcast

    Marina Hyde on the motley crew of enforcers, concealers and NDA experts behind every Al Fayed or Diddy; Liz Taylor’s son, Chris Wilding, discusses his mother’s legend and legacy; and Philippa Perry helps one reader struggling to reconcile the emotions that come with a devastating illness

27 September 2024

  • A woman holds a photo of her sister

    British army to investigate conduct of troops in Kenya amid rape and murder claims

    Defence secretary to meet family of woman allegedly killed by soldier, as ITV airs documentary alleging fresh abuses

26 September 2024

  • Mohammed Al Fayed close-up

    Harrods chief steps back from Royal Ballet role over Fayed abuse allegations

    Michael Ward says Harrods failed its staff as Fayed ‘presided over a toxic culture’, describing it as ‘shameful period’

25 September 2024

  • Gisèle Pelicot leaves a courthouse with her lawyer, Stephane Babonneau, followed by a videographer

    Today in Focus
    The bravery of Gisèle Pelicot in the rape trial horrifying France – podcast

  • portrait of a man wearing glasses and a gray robe

    ‘This is why victims don’t come forward’: trial delayed for New Orleans priest charged with child rape

24 September 2024

  • Diddy performs onstage at the 2023 MTV Video Music awards in Newark, New Jersey.

    Woman accuses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of assault and recording it 20 years ago

  • Prime minister Keir Starmer greeted by his wife Victoria after the conclusion of his main speech to party members

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Keir Starmer says Labour can deliver change and national renewal in conference speech – as it happened

  • a black and white photo of a man looking at the camera wearing a suit

    New Orleans trial delayed indefinitely as priest accused of child rape hospitalized

  • Marina Hyde

    Behind every Al Fayed or Diddy, there is a small army of enablers: this column is dedicated to them

    Marina Hyde

23 September 2024

  • a corner of a white building and the sky

    Hundreds sue over alleged sexual abuse in Illinois youth detention centers

    More than 200 people in three lawsuits detail abuse for decades by officers, nurses, kitchen staff and chaplains
  • Woman with auburn hair wearing white scarf and sunglasses walks by camera

    I too may have been assaulted, says ex-partner of Dominique Pelicot co-defendant

    Witness says former companion accused of attempted rape of Gisèle Pelicot was repeatedly unfaithful
  • Mohamed Al Fayed

    Harrods investigating if any current staff were involved in Fayed’s alleged abuse

    Exclusive: Store issues new statement as lawyers describe redress scheme it has set up as attempted ‘whitewash’

21 September 2024

  • The exterior of Harrods

    Former Harrods worker says manager ‘brushed off’ Fayed complaints

    Woman says store’s former owner told her he was her ‘boyfriend’ and kissed her on the forehead
  • Statue holding a raised sword in one hand and scales in the other.

    An empty apology from the CPS? That’s no justice for rape victims

    Vera Baird
    By asking for a not guilty verdict instead of a trial, the Crown Prosecution Service allows guilty defendants to walk free, says former solicitor general Vera Baird

    • Crime victims in UK fight ‘devastating’ practice that stops appeal after a case is dropped

    • ‘Not all men, but a lot of them’: will Gisèle Pelicot rape trial finally change France’s attitude to sexual abuse?

    • The staggering fall of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs – from music mogul to criminal charges

20 September 2024

  • A courtroom sketch of Dominique Pelicot, who allegedly drugged and raped his wife Gisèle Pelicot

    ‘Everyone here is disgusted’: the village at the heart of the rape trial that shook France

  • Sandy Brindley

    Rape Crisis Scotland boss apologises for Edinburgh centre failings

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