Extent of protection against child abuse across the UK has hit an abysmal low, almost to the tipping point where even girls aged 11 or below reportedly face sexual abuse in every ‘town, village and hamlet’ of the country, a government expert yesterday warned the MPs. Deputy Children’s Commissioner, Sue Berelowitz, told the Commons home affairs committee on Tuesday that child abuse was taking place in “leafy rural areas” as well as inner cities. She told the committee…

Joseph Moran, 19, has been found guilty, by a jury at Nottingham Crown court, of raping a woman on December 9 last year. The woman went out with some of her friends for an early Christmas celebration. As she boarded a bus she had 20 pence short of the £5 fare to Mansfield. The driver neither waived the fare nor let her go to an ATM opposite the bus stop….

In a bizarre confession to the police, a 20-year-old woman said she got up naked and “confused” in the bed at an inn in Denbighshire, suspecting that she was raped by two footballers. The case which was being heard at Caernarfon Crown Court learned that in May 2011, the woman had four double vodkas with lemonade, along with a Sambucca shot at a local pub in Rhyl. After drinking she…