At the Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday 9th October 2012, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling MP outlined his “Two strikes and you’re out” policy. Criminals committing two violent or sexual offences, or two high level crimes warranting 10 year sentences, would automatically receive a life sentence. Reading between the lines of this policy, no new money…
Note: Factual Events are contained in the link below which serve as a spoiler to this book’s story. Ronnie Thompson has written two other books about prison life from both the guards’ and prisoners’ points of view. Knifer, his third book is the first to be amalgamated from several true stories with his own professional…
French police have found the teenager Megan Stammers and her teacher Jeremy Forrest in the Bordeaux region of France, with the teacher arrested on suspicion of child abduction. The BBC has the story here. -CBG
It’s almost a week since teenager Megan Stammers, 15 and her 30 year old teacher Jeremy Forrest failed to use return tickets on a French ferry and the alarm was raised. Since then it has emerged that there have been three other major abuse incidents at the same school, at least one of which also involved a…
A couple of years ago I shared some information about online courses to help raise awareness of child abuse. The same folks who designed those have released an iPhone app called Reduce the Risk: The free app Reduce the Risk shows how to recognise the signs of abuse either in your own relationship or in…
The X Factor’s only into its second American season but will be a decade old in the UK next year. One of the recent Judges, Tulisa Constavlos, discussed her experience of being drug-raped at 16. Since The Sun has the serialisation rights and there are only edited sections at their site before the rest goes behind a paywall, the Daily…
