Category Archive for : ‘ENGLAND’

BY GINA TRON

Actor Kevin Spacey has been granted bail after appearing in a British court to contest sexual offense charges involving three men. Spacey, 62, appeared in a London courtroom on Thursday where his lawyer Patrick Gibbs QC stated, “Mr. Spacey strenuously denies any and all criminality in this case,” the BBC reports.  The former “House of Cards” star was formally charged with four counts of sexual assault against three men on Monday, the Metropolitan Police Department announced, in addition to a fifth sexual offense charge. He was granted unconditional

Prince Andrew’s lawyers argued to block a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre who says the royal sexually assaulted her when she was 17

By Stephanie Petit

January 04, 2022 12:11 PM

Prince Andrew; Virginia Roberts Giuffre | CREDIT: ALEXANDER KOERNER/GETTY; EMILY MICHOT/MIAMI HERALD/TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE VIA GETTY

Prince Andrew’s attorneys argued on Tuesday to dismiss Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s civil sexual assault lawsuit after it was revealed Monday that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reached a $500,000 settlement with Giuffre, in which she agreed not to sue any other “potential defendant.”

In the 2009 document, which does

FORMER MET SEX CRIME PC SENTENCED FOR CHILD ABUSE IMAGES
May 25, 2021
BBC

Det Con Paul Allgood, 60, was convicted of having images of children, 32 described as the worst kind, after they were discovered on his laptop.

He had also pleaded guilty to filming a schoolgirl, aged 13 or 14, in an upskirting incident.

Allgood was given a 22-month prison term, suspended for two years.

The former detective had specialised in investigating sex offences before working in economic crime.

During sentencing at Wood Green Crown Court, Judge Kaly Kaul QC said Allgood had not used

May 11, 2021
ABC News

LONDON — A former English National Ballet principal dancer was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting young female dance students.
Yat-Sen Chang, 49, was found guilty of 12 counts of sexual assault and one count of “assault by penetration.” The offenses took place at the English National Ballet and Young Dancers Academy in London from 2009 to 2016, and relate to four teens who were between 16 and 18 years old at the time.
The victims accused Chang of touching them inappropriately during massages at the schools. During the trial,

December 11, 2020
BBC

Joseph Telford, from Darlington, abused three children during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Teesside Crown Court heard.

Durham Police said his “harrowing” actions included one victim being abused at least 60 times during a four-year period and another for six years starting from the age of eight.

Telford was found guilty of 12 counts of indecent assault and six rapes.

His crimes came to light in 2017 when one of his victims reported what had happened to police, a force spokeswoman said.

‘Haunting and devastating’

In a victim impact statement read out in

November 27, 2020
BBC

Jonathan Thomson-Glover, who admitted abusing boys at Clifton College in Bristol, was jailed in August 2015.

A senior inspector said the school’s “culture of minimisation” had made it more difficult to uncover wrongdoing.

The college formally apologised for “letting down children and their parents” last week.
Richard Johnson told an Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse hearing it became clear that there had been an “artificially high threshold” for pupils to make complaints when an inspection took place in 2013.

Mr Johnson, a deputy chief inspector of the Independent Schools Inspectorate, blamed