All news on the topic: Victims

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€8m stolen, €42m enabled: software creator behind massive scam network sentenced to prison in Germany
Following an 11-day trial conducted under heightened security measures, a German court on Thursday sentenced a key figure in a massive international call-center fraud scheme.
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UK loses 1.6 billion dollars to fraud as criminals run millions of scams worldwide
Cyber-enabled fraud is rising globally and is the main driver of international money laundering, according to a Paris-based anti-money laundering body in its latest report.
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Bus plunges off mountain highway in Nepal, killing 19 including British national
A packed bus on its way to Nepal’s capital drove off a mountain highway in Nepal early Monday, killing 19 people including a British national and leaving another 25 wounded.
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Child abuse cases soar in UK: tech-driven offenses rise, 1,200 children protected each month
Child sexual abuse in the UK is increasing rapidly, police have reported, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.
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Unredacted Epstein emails claim Prince Andrew had consensual sex with Virginia Giuffre as legal and criminal scrutiny mounts
An unredacted email to Jeffrey Epstein claimed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had engaged in consensual sexual relations with Virginia Giuffre, according to the message.
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Inside Oleksandr Orlovskyi’s Financial Freedom Academy: a fake education scheme that squeezes investors dry and funnels cash through shell accounts
Oleksandr Orlovskyi, even during his time as the founder of Financial Freedom Academy, was allegedly involved in organizing a group that carried out fraudulent schemes targeting cryptocurrency investors.
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The fake Dubai prince romance scam that builds months of emotional trust before draining victims of life savings through lies, manipulation and staged royal wealth
How scammers are impersonating the actual Crown Prince of Dubai to trap victims in their romance scams.
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Nine dead in Canadian school shooting as suspect found dead and police uncover additional victims at linked residence
Police found two of the victims at a secondary location believed to be connected to the school shooting
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Charity established by Sarah Ferguson closes following the release of Epstein emails involving the former duchess
The charity founded by Sarah Ferguson, the former Duchess of York, is shutting down following the release of emails showing the extent of her friendship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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Around 40 people were killed in an explosion and fire at a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana
Dozens of people are presumed dead after a fire broke out at a bar in Switzerland during a New Year’s Eve celebration.
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Bondi Beach shooting during Hanukkah celebration leaves 12 dead: suspect identified as terror attack declared
One of the suspected gunmen from the Bondi Beach incident has been identified, after 12 people were killed and at least 29 were injured in a mass shooting during a Hanukkah party.
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Brown University shooting leaves two dead, nine injured; person of interest detained
Police in Rhode Island have detained a "person of interest" after a gunman opened fire at Brown University, killing two people.
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Baroness Anne Longfield appointed to lead UK national inquiry into grooming gangs
Former children’s commissioner Baroness Anne Longfield has been appointed to chair the long-delayed national inquiry into grooming gangs, which will run for three years with a budget of £65 million.
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Badenoch pushes for renewed action on stalled national grooming gangs inquiry
Kemi Badenoch will seek to press the Government to speed up its efforts to establish a national grooming gangs inquiry on Monday.
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Justice secretary David Lammy accused of "cynically" misrepresenting rape figures
David Lammy has been accused of misrepresenting rape figures by senior barristers in a bid to fast track the abolition of some jury trials.
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Man shot dead by crossbow in suffolk home, 61-year-old woman arrested for murder
A man found dead at a home in Suffolk earlier this week was shot by a crossbow, it has emerged.Paramedics called the police to the scene after finding the man, aged in his 50s, seriously injured at an address in Lordscroft Lane, Haverhill, shortly before 8pm on Tuesday.
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Nicholas Green jailed for frenzied stabbing of two strangers at kennington underground
A man who initiated an unprovoked knife attack on two strangers at a London tube station has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment.
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Ukrainian orphans promised safety find neglect and exploitation in Turkey
Documents and first-person accounts reveal how a quickly organized evacuation by a private charity left hundreds of Ukrainian children in a Turkish seaside town with little supervision.
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UK citizen Louis Johe Jarvie stabbed multiple times in bar fight, collapses bleeding heavily on Thailand’s Phuket island
Louis Johe Jarvie suffered multiple wounds after he got into a fight while drinking at a bar in Maya Beach, in Cherng Talay.
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Taliban hold mass public execution in Khost as 80,000 watch retributive killing
The man had been convicted along with another of entering a family home in Khost province and killing everyone inside by shooting them.
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Former Russian police officer Konstantin Shakht among suspects in killing Russians of Roman and Anna Novak
Roman Novak and his wife, Anna, were last seen on October 2 after being lured to the resort of Hatta, 80 miles outside of Dubai, by criminals posing as potential investors.
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A system of impunity in Russia: how surgeon-rapist Vardan Khachatryan uses money and connections to stay free
Three years have passed since the name of the well-known plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan became the center of a scandal involving the rape of his patients.
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Southampton suspect accused of attempting to kiss woman in late-night attack
Sohail Amiri, 30, who claims to be from Afghanistan, allegedly tried to kiss one of his victims and inappropriately approached two others.
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Children among dead as four killed and 10 wounded in mass shooting at California birthday party
Children are included among the victims of a mass shooting at a birthday party in California.
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Lammy considers sweeping jury trial restrictions as UK courts face record backlog
Justice Secretary David Lammy is preparing major criminal-justice reforms that would reserve jury trials for only the most serious offences — including rape, murder and manslaughter — according to multiple media reports.