Category Archive for : ‘ENGLAND’

November 5, 2020
Kirstin Ridley
Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets watchdog on Thursday banned three former financial advisers from the industry after their convictions for sex crimes, the first time the regulator has used its powers to crack down on such misconduct.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said Russell Jameson, Frank Cochran and Mark Horsey had failed to meet “fit and proper” standards because they had committed serious offences while working in the financial services industry.
Jameson was convicted in 2018 of making and stockpiling thousands of violent and indecent images of children and

October 19, 2020
Megan Specia
Ny Times

LONDON — The Hay Festival, an annual staple of Britain’s literary calendar, announced on Monday that an offshoot event to promote freedom of speech and women’s empowerment would no longer be held in Abu Dhabi after one of its employees accused the United Arab Emirates’ minister of tolerance of sexual assault.
In an article published by The Sunday Times of London over the weekend, the employee, Caitlin McNamara, 32, said that the minister, Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-Nahyan, who is also a member of Abu Dhabi’s ruling

August 19, 2020
BBC

The alleged offences include rape, indecent assault and gross indecency and took place in Leeds and Barrow-in-Furness between 1996 and 2010, West Yorkshire Police said.
The men, from Yorkshire, were arrested after a joint investigation between the Cumbria and West Yorkshire forces.
They will appear at Preston Magistrates’ Court on 11 September.
Shaha Amran Miah, 44, of no fixed abode, Leeds, is charged with six counts of indecent assault and six counts of gross indecency with a child in the Leeds area and rape, sexual assault, kidnap and two counts of

July 27, 2020
Will Taylor
Yahoo

An X Factor reject described as “pure evil” has been jailed for life after admitting a series of rapes and other sex offences that took place over 22 years.

Phillip Blackwell, 56, had admitted committing offences against five women in Birmingham and Nuneaton between 1997 and 1998.

He later admitted a further 20 sexual offences against three women between 2005 and 2019 as well as one count of taking indecent photographs of a child and a count of voyeurism.

In all, Blackwell committed 31 sexual offences against nine victims over

July 18, 2020
Susan Edelman
NY POST

A former BBC reporter in Wales confessed to numerous sexual offenses against children and adults spanning 30 years while working as a church pastor.

Benjamin David Thomas, 44, pleaded guilty on Friday to 10 counts of sexual activity with a child, eight sexual assaults and four attempts to commit sexual assault.

Thomas, who was charged last month, also admitted to seven counts of voyeurism and two counts of making indecent videos of children from 1990 to last year.

“It is an awful breach of the trust placed in him

June 15, 2020
Lee Brown
NY POST

The imprisoned rapist who is the prime suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann is refusing to cooperate with investigators, his attorney says.

Christian Brückner — who is behind bars in Germany for raping an American tourist — is being eyed over the missing youngster, who is feared dead after being abducted from a Portuguese resort in 2007.

The 43-year-old inmate is also being eyed over a series of other attacks around Praia da Luz, according to the Times of London.

German prosecutors and London’s Scotland Yard are following up hundreds of “pieces