National Equality Panel’s analysis shows the richest 10% is more than 100 times better off than the poorest 10%In many ways the Renton and the Green families have plenty in common – these are two busy, noisy, happy households, each with three children. In both families, the two older children are already in their early [...]
Nearly five years after her teenage daughter was murdered, Mary Foley has forgiven her killer. The alternative, she says, was to let hatred and anger destroy her own lifeThe first time I meet Mary Foley she is addressing a rapt group of 15- and 16-year-olds in a humanities class on forgiveness. Tall, handsome and quietly [...]
The Guardian asked Risthardh Hare, a social worker in Hackney, east London, what he thought of Mariah Carey’s film portrayal of social work and sexual abuseIn Precious, the controversial new film about an abused African-American girl, Mariah Carey plays the teenager’s social worker.Although they apparently do things differently in the US, for example in one [...]
Earlier this month, Frances Inglis was jailed for nine years for murder after injecting her brain-damaged son Thomas, 22, with a lethal dose of heroin. Just days…
A man who harassed a woman for seven years has been jailed for just 16 weeks. Why is the law so slow to realise that stalking is a serious – and often violent – crime?Claire Waxman has spent much of the last seven years living in terror. During that period, her stalker has followed her [...]
• Putting case before a jury was ‘in public interest’• Two judges had urged ME death case to be droppedBritain’s most senior prosecutor, who has been criticised for bringing charges against a mother cleared of trying to murder her seriously ill daughter, has defended his decision.Keir Starmer QC, the director of public prosecutions, issued a [...]
Keir Starmer says decision to prosecute Kay Gilderdale, cleared of trying to murder seriously ill daughter, was in public interestBritain’s most senior prosecutor today defended his decision to prosecute a mother who was cleared of trying to murder her seriously ill daughter.Keir Starmer, QC, the director of public prosecutions, issued a statement in which he [...]
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) defends its decision to bring charges against a mother cleared of trying to kill her daughter.
The acquittal of the Sussex nurse Kay Gilderdale – who was accused of murdering her severely ill daughter Lynn – is the lead in several UK papers.
• Illness had left daughter completely dependant on parents• Trial adds to pressure for clarity over assisted suicide lawLive Journal was the one place where Lynn Gilderdale felt safe uttering her deepest, most troubling thoughts. Using a specially-designed handheld computer, and adopting the pseudonym Jessie Oliver, it was on the internet networking forum that she [...]