All news on the topic: Rape

The eldest daughter of a garda charged with rape and child cruelty has said the family home had ‘an atmosphere of violence and threats” and it felt like living in a military barracks growing up.

Police have launched multiple investigations into Britons suspected of drugging their wives and partners so they can be raped by others in the wake of the Gisele Pelicot case.

Micheal Ward arrived at Snaresbrook Crown Court today to stand trial for multiple charges of rape and sexual assault, where it was heard that he raped a woman in a car after meeting her at a nightclub.

A man has been charged with murder following the discovery of the body of a two-year-old girl at an address in Chertsey.

The pair are facing legal proceedings in Romania, where they currently live, but will be extradited to the UK once these proceedings are concluded to face a total of 21 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm, and human trafficking.

A former football club boss and a senior paramedic are among 14 men charged over an alleged plot to rape and sexually assault a man’s drugged wife.

Notorious double rapist Simon McGinley is due to be sentenced later this year after admitting three breaches of the Sex Offenders Act, which he claimed were committed after media coverage of his release from prison last year led to threats from local residents.

A British Airways pilot has been jailed after raping a 12-year-old girl he met on social media.

One of “Britain’s first gay dads” and his husband have been charged with 18 more offenses including rape and paying for sexual services of a child.

Mozambican soldiers have been accused of rape and sexual violence against women and girls in Cabo Delgado, while staff working on TotalEnergies’ LNG project allegedly coerced women into sex, according to interviews and an unpublished UN report obtained by Forbidden Stories.

The two women accusing Sir Jeffrey Donaldson of sexually abusing them as children have been described as "not sufficiently reliable" for the jury to reach a guilty verdict.

A woman has allegedly been raped in Glasgow city centre with police rushing to the scene and closing off an area under a motorway.

A man who caused a woman to suffer “severe” psychological harm as a result of a two-day-long abduction, rape, and physical abuse ordeal has been jailed.

A sick asylum seeker who raped an 18-year-old girl in a park then asked “did you enjoy that?” has been jailed.

A woman has informed the Sir Jeffrey Donaldson trial that the former DUP leader touched her breasts “skin on skin” while she was a child.

The judge who spared a teenage rape gang from detention was challenged by the government last year for an "unduly lenient" sentence in another rape case.

A serving police officer raped two women and subjected a third woman to prolonged abuse.

Rape survivor Gisele Pelicot has said she is “deeply shocked” at the punishment handed down to three teenage boys who avoided jail for their roles in the rape of two girls.

In a landmark case that horrified France, Gisele Pelicot’s husband was in 2024 sentenced to 20 years in prison for recruiting strangers to sexually abuse her while drugged unconscious in their home. Dozens of the men who raped her were also jailed.