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Nottinghamshire scout leader jailed for sexually abusing children
A former Nottinghamshire scout leader has been jailed for sexually abusing two children. Nottinghamshire Police said Jonathan Withey abused a boy and a girl after meeting them at a scout camp in 1997. Withey, of Tindall Close, Chilwell, was jailed for 16 years at...
Nottinghamshire Police launch investigation into Nottingham maternity services
A criminal investigation is to be launched into maternity care across Nottingham's hospitals amid a wide-scale review into the services. Nottinghamshire Police made the announcement on Thursday, September 7 after a meeting between Chief Constable Kate Meynell and...
Remedy Law is Expanding
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Tracy Hunns-Clarke at Remedy Law as a Consultant Lawyer. Tracy has over 25 years’ experience and is an APIL accredited Senior litigator. She specialises in both medical negligence and personal injury claims, and will run...
Derek Turner – south Essex music teacher who sexually abused children is jailed
A music teacher who sexually abused children has been jailed for 12 years. Derek Turner, 66 of The Oaks, Wickford, appeared at Basildon Crown Court yesterday where he was jailed after being convicted of a series of vile sex crimes. An investigation into Turner was...
Alleged delayed diagnosis of Cancer being investigated at Queen Alexandra Hospital
Christine Candy, of Southsea, is trying to raise awareness of the warning signs of the disease after she has received the shocking diagnosis that her gynaecological cancer is terminal. She initially went to a GP in March 2020, and the doctor referred her to a...
Football coach Robert Blackmore from Hampshire jailed for sex offences
A former football coach has been convicted of further historic sexual offences against young boys. Robert Michael Blackmore, known then as Mike Blackmore, was a volunteer coach in Burgess Hill during the 1990s. He was convicted in 2004 for 11 counts of indecent...
Man jailed for 23 years for non-recent sexual abuse and rape
A man has been jailed for 23 years after being convicted of non-recent sexual abuse and rape. John William Hart, 70, of Warsash Close, Havant, committed the offences against a girl who was between the ages of 12 and 14. A court heard the incidents happened in the...
Havant man sentenced to 17 years for child sexual abuse
A man from Havant has been sentenced to 17 years in prison after abusing two women when they were under 16-years-old. The woman, now adults, have spoken out about the offences and an investigation was launched. The offender, 62-year-old Robert Campbell, was arrested...
Former verger jailed for teenager sexual assaults in Hampshire and Southwark
A former cathedral verger has been jailed for sexually assaulting two teenage boys. Clive McCleester, 77, was sentenced to 16 years on Thursday after pleading guilty to 10 counts of sexual abuse. The first victim was assaulted between 1969 and 1970, when McCleester...
Yours In Scouting – Abuse Campaign
Yours In Scouting is run by those with lived experience of child abuse in The Scout Association, supported by The Good Law Project. Yours In Scouting believe that The Scout Association is not doing as much as it could to protect children, based on evidence in The...
Former gymnastics teacher from Worthing jailed on 11 counts of sexual assault against children
Norman Hogbin, 66, of Brougham Road, Worthing, was sentenced at Chichester Crown Court on Wednesday, December 21 after being found guilty of 11 counts of sexual assault against four children by a jury following a 12-day trial at Reading Crown Court, Sussex Police have...
Piers Le Cheminant convicted of 11 counts of child abuse
School and Teacher Abuse, Scouts and Charities
A retired teacher is facing jail after being convicted of sexually abusing boys at two boarding schools. Piers Le Cheminant, 77, taught at Oakwood School in Chichester and Salisbury Cathedral School between the late 1960s and early 1980s. Complaints about his...
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