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• Woman allegedly raped as a teenager calls for change after ‘horrendous’ trial

  12-03-2023 15:00
  
  Isobel Goatcher says she cannot bear to endure another trial after jury failed to reach verdict and defence painted her as ‘sex-crazed slut’A woman who alleges she was raped as a teenager by an older man has called for changes to the judicial process after finding the experience of going to trial traumatic.Isobel Goatcher claims a man, then in his 60s, attacked her in 2016 after a party at her parents’ house when she was 16. He faced a one-week trial in November after pleading
  
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• Illegal migration bill is ‘cruelty without purpose’, says Archbishop of York

  12-03-2023 08:00
  
  Jewish leaders join Stephen Cottrell in urging government not to penalise ‘world’s most vulnerable’ as charities and businesses voice horror in open letterThe government’s new asylum and migration law “amounts to cruelty without purpose” and is “immoral and inept”, the Archbishop of York has said in a powerful intervention over plans unveiled last week.Stephen Cottrell’s condemnation came as a coalition of more than 350 charities, businesses,
  
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