Stories

False rape allegations

Why did Eleanor Williams frame innocent men for rape and trafficking?

Why did Eleanor Williams frame innocent men for rape and trafficking? Helen Pidd examines what drove her lies.

Recalibrating the #MeToo Movement

Men subjected to public shaming and career destruction over either false or trivial accusations, or over complicated and messy relationships, should never have been regarded as acceptable collateral damage.

Police

Corruption Pervades Police Forces in Australia and the United Kingdom: Part 1

Part one of an examination of corruption pervading police forces in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Innocence projects

Missouri man freed as murder conviction overturned after three decades

Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’

Courts

Mobiles in the dock

Bettina Arndt on courts withholding mobile phone evidence that could clear men accused of sexual assault.

False allegations

Unproven Sexual Assault Allegations: Creating Celebrities While Destroying Lives

How unproven sexual assault allegations can create celebrities out of accusers while destroying the lives of the accused.

Catholic Church

Former Pope Benedict to mount legal defense over abuse cover-up accusation

Former Pope Benedict XVI plans to defend himself in a German civil lawsuit alleging he helped cover up historical abuse.

Courts

Questionable conduct

Bettina Arndt on the Brittany Higgins case and what readers can do about the attack on basic principles of criminal justice.

False allegations

Woman's compulsive lies led to ex-boyfriend almost being shot by police

A woman's compulsive lies to police saw her innocent ex-boyfriend jailed twice and confronted by armed officers at his home.

England

Police ‘should not automatically believe abuse victims’ to avoid another ‘Nick’ scandal

Head of college of policing said force had ‘overreacted’ to criticism of the handling of historic sexual abuse