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Neil Turner, former Shoreham College teacher jailed for sex abuse
News, School and Teacher Abuse
Neil Turner, 67, of Pevensey Garden, Worthing, was sentenced to 28 months in prison at Hove Crown Court yesterday (August 5) after admitting to assaults on six young boys and on an adult with learning disabilities. His latest victims, who were abused from the...
Neil Harris an abusive dance and gymnastics teacher remained unchecked for years
Media Updates, News, Sports Clubs
For many decades, Neil Harris abused his position as a dance and gymnastics teacher to sexually assault and abuse his vulnerable victims. In June 2020 he was jailed for a second time. Some of Harris's victims have told of the impact the childhood attacks have had on...
Abuse in Gymnastics – Independent Inquiry Announced
Media Updates, News, Sports Clubs
British Gymnastics has announced an independent inquiry into “shocking and upsetting” allegations of serious physical and emotional abuse made by multiple elite athletes, including fresh claims of fat-shaming by one London 2012 Olympian.Francesca Fox, who competed as...
Remedy Law representing a core participant in the IICSA Lambeth Tranche
IICSA, Lambeth Redress Scheme, News
Remedy Law have been recently instructed to represent a core participant in the Independent Inquiry in to Child Sexual Abuse which begins its first day of hearings today on the 29 June 2020. In this investigation, the Inquiry will consider the experience of victims...
Truth Project Thematic Report: Child sexual abuse in sports released by the Independent Inquiry In To Child Sexual Abuse
Media Updates, News, Sports Clubs
The Inquiry has published new research into child sexual abuse in sports, which finds that coaches and instructors exploited children’s vulnerabilities in order to groom and abuse them. Based on the accounts of victims and survivors who came forward to the Truth...
Jonathan Smith – World renowned music director – Jailed for child sex offences
News, School and Teacher Abuse
A world renowned music director who used "psychological manipulation" and blackmail to abuse and rape a young girl has been jailed. Jonathan Smith, 57, carried out a "campaign of sexual violence" against the girl in Lewes, East Sussex, in the 1980s and early 1990s, he...
Portsmouth ex-choirmaster Mark Burgess charged with 73 child sex offences
Mark Burgess a Portsmouth Ex-Choirmaster was initially charged with 58 counts in February of this year which included indecent assault, gross indecency with a child, inciting sexual activity with a child, and sexual touching. Burgess has now been charged with 15 more...
Meirion Grifiths Former Priest – Jailed for sexual abuse
Former Priest, Meirion Griffiths was convicted of ‘devastating’ historic sexual offences was sentenced on the 21 February 2020 to eight years in prison. Meirion Griffiths, 81, was unanimously found guilty of three charges of indecent assault by a jury in January of...
Hampshire Constabulary urge parents to be watchful for signs of online child abuse
The head of Hampshire Constabulary’s Internet Child Abuse Team has urged parents to be watchful and aware of online child abuse. He has warned those considering exploiting children online they will 'face the consequences’ Detective Superintendent Justin Torgout has...
Vicarious Liability Update – Haringey London Borough Council v FZO [2020]
The Facts:The Court of Appeal on 18 February 2020 in Haringey London Borough Council v FZO [2020] EWCA Civ 180 upheld a High Court decision that a school WAS vicariously liable for the sexual abuse perpetrated by a teacher against a student for acts perpetrated both...
Online child abuse increases due to Coronavirus lockdown
Thames Valley Police have confirmed it has received 64 reports of online child abuse due to the targeting of minors in the Coronavirus lockdown. The reports received in March 2020 are over a 200% increase compared to 26 for the same month in 2019. Det Ch Insp Matt...
NSPCC releases vital information to spot signs of abuse – Covid-19
The NSPCC have released some very useful information in respect of ensuring that signs of abuse and neglect are spotted in times whereby contact with adults and those who can spot the signs is reduced. Due to coronavirus (COVID-19) we are all self-isolating, social...
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