Jake Richards (politician)

Parents could also risk losing their benefits or paying hefty fines as part of new reforms to the justice system

The Prime Minister approved changes to the early release scheme this week after calling for rapists and the most serious child sex offenders to be excluded from the policy

PC Harper, who served with Thames Valley, was killed in 2019 when he was dragged by a car down a country road as three teenagers fled the scene of a quad bike theft in Berkshire

Rochdale grooming: 'I was raped more than 100 times from age 12'

BBC presenter Alex Forsyth grilled a Labour politician about their historical anti-Burnham tweets in a brutal TV takedown

Capt Jacob Wulfson, who was based at the Suffolk airfield, was convicted by the US Air Force (USAF) of strangulation

Reforms aim to deter young people from a life of crime by placing more accountability on carers

And he vowed to work with Tony’s mum, Paula, on strengthening the Child Cruelty Register amid fears that loopholes could allow some thugs to avoid greater scrutiny

Thomas Skinner found himself in a fiery exchange as he made an appearance on the BBC's topical debate show Question Time this week

Badenoch accuses PM of 'stuffing government with paedophile apologists' amid Lord Doyle row

Keir Starmer faces calls to appoint de facto deputy in row over former aides with links to paedophiles

Roksana Lecka, a Polish national, was convicted last June of 21 counts of child cruelty, after a jury at Kingston upon Thames crown court in London found she had smacked, punched, pinched and kicked children aged between 18 months and two years while working at two London nurseries in 2023 and 2024

Reform has now welcomed four sitting Conservative MPs into its ranks amid a flood of defectors into Nigel Farage's insurgent party

A teenager has been sentenced after pleading guilty to raping a 12-year-old girl in a secluded tunnel

The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday to encouraging or assisting self-harm and causing a child over 13 to engage in sexual activity without consent

Joshua Johnson confirmed as having died three weeks after Rotherham crash in an ‘appalling’ mix-up by officers

The parents of a teenager who died in a car crash spent three weeks at the wrong boy’s hospital bedside in an “unimaginable ordeal” after a police mix-up