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A major shift in mindset is needed to help encourage more victims of sexual assault to report incidents, the leader of a charity said yesterday. Laurie Shiell-Smith, the executive director of the Centre Against Abuse, explained survivors were often a...

A senior denied allegations that he sexually touched a young boy more than 40 years ago. The 84-year-old defendant, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was accused of indecently assaulting a child, unlawfully causing the child to commit an in...

A 28-year-old man has denied groping a woman and exposing himself to her. But he admitted to the thefts of three bottles of wine on a later date. The man, from Devonshire, pleaded not guilty yesterday to two charges of sex assault when he appeared in...

A wanted sex offender from Bermuda, who was tracked down by police to a hostel in Liverpool, is the subject of a television show in Britain. Malik Zuill, 22, from Warwick, was working as a cleaner when British police caught him and extradited him to ...

A teenager described to the Supreme Court yesterday how she told her mother she had been raped and molested by a man who was trusted by the family. The young woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she kept the secret for years becaus...

A teenager tearfully told the Supreme Court yesterday how an adult man sexually violated her in his office while she was still in middle school. The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told the defendant from the stand: “I don’t unders...

The trial of a 58-year-old man accused of a string of sexual offences against an underage girl began in the Supreme Court yesterday. The Devonshire man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has denied sexually touching the preteen while in a p...

A convicted sex offender was ordered yesterday to wear an electronic monitoring device after he failed to provide any evidence to support his claim that it would cause him pain. Junius Caines, 50, was imprisoned last year after he was convicted of a ...

The safety of children is paramount to the Ministry of Education and Department of Education”. This is a statement I have said many times and in different ways over the past year. It is a statement I stand by and is not to be limited to physical heal...

A 40-year-old man has denied intruding on a woman’s privacy in her own home. The Devonshire man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, formally pleaded not guilty in Supreme Court on Tuesday. The incident is alleged to have happened in St George’s o...

Allegations on social media about “inappropriate sexual behaviour” have come to the attention of police, a spokesman said yesterday. But the service said that formal complaints were needed for officers to launch inquiries. The spokesman said: “The Be...