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A POLICE officer was jailed for three years yesterday for having oral sex with vulnerable women while on duty.
Adam Rushton, who was branded “a disgrace to the police service” on his conviction last month, was sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday for five counts of misconduct.
The most serious incident involved a very vulnerable victim whom he visited in uniform at her home.
Sexual harassment on Britain’s railways is rising sharply, according to the British Transport Police, yet too many women still feel reporting is futile. LYNNE WALSH asks why the burden of safety all too often remains on women themselves
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
Police guidelines suggesting home searches and digital checks for women who experience pregnancy loss under suspicion of having broken the outdated 1967 Abortion Act have sparked uproar, writes PEOPLES’ HEALTH DISPATCH