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This is Not Right

A Metro campaign to address the relentless epidemic of violence against women that aims to also educate, engage and empower our readers on the issue.

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A doctor told me it’s too dangerous for me to open letters

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle November 10, 2025 By Anonymous
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Porn laws are changing - but TV still glamourises strangulation

Channel: TV TV November 4, 2025 By Thaira Mhearban
Joanna Simpson

'My murdered daughter’s will helped me keep her children safe'

Channel: UK UK November 2, 2025 By Isobel Frodsham
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My ex violently and racially abused me - court was a different hell

Channel: Lifestyle Lifestyle November 3, 2025 By Anonymous

Court backlog scandal: ‘I waited six years to see my violent ex sent down’

Channel: UK UK November 4, 2025 By Lauren Crosby Medlicott
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Hollywood producer David Pearce jailed for nearly 150 years for rape and murder

Channel: Showbiz Showbiz October 30, 2025 By Laura Harman
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Tougher sentences for murderers who kill at end of a relationship take effect

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
Play Video Asylum seeker who celebrated after stabbing hotel worker guilty of murder

Asylum seeker who celebrated after stabbing hotel worker guilty of murder

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
Undated family handout photo issued by Susses Police of married couple Josh Bashford, 33, and 30-year-old Chloe, whose bodies were found at their home in Lewes Road, Newhaven, East Sussex, on Friday June 9. Derek Martin, also known as Derek Glenn, 64, of Moulsecoomb Way, Brighton, who police say was known to the two victims, has been remanded in custody to appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court on Monday June 12, charged with their murder. Issue date: Sunday June 11, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Newhaven . Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Man guilty of killing stepdaughter and her husband in their home

Channel: UK UK October 24, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Night club manageress Ruth Ellis (1926 - 1955) poses for one Captain Ritchie, 1954. The setting is probably the flat above her club on the Brompton Road in Knightsbridge, London. In 1955, Ellis was convicted of the murder of her lover, David Blakely, and hanged at Holloway Prison, becoming the last woman to receive the death penalty in Britain. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Family of last woman hanged in UK in fight to have her pardoned 70 years on

Channel: UK UK October 22, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
The defendant arriving at Edinburgh Sheriff And Justice Of The Peace Court, for a preliminary hearing on the extradition of Nicholas Rossi to the US, where he is wanted after allegedly fleeing the country in 2017 to evade charges involving identity theft and fraud, and a 2008 sexual assault charge in Utah. The man, who goes by at least ten other aliases, including Nicholas Alahverdian and Arthur Knight, denies he is Rossi. Picture date: Thursday April 21, 2022. Rossi is accused of faking his own death before hiding in Scotland to escape the sex charges, where he was arrested twice after almost dying of Covid, and missing his extradition hearing. PA Photo. See PA story COURTS Rossi. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Fugitive who faked cancer death and fled to UK to avoid rape charges is jailed

Channel: US US October 21, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
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My ex secretly recorded me - but that wasn't the worst of his abuse

Channel: Health Health October 19, 2025 By Anonymous
Undated family handout photo issued by Jasmine Yates of Alana Odysseos, a 32-year-old mother of two, who had just found out she was four weeks pregnant with her third child before she died after suffering stab wounds at an address in north-east London. Issue date: Tuesday July 23, 2024. PA Photo. Alana's sister Jasmine Yates, 26, said she will be remembered as a "pure hearted person" and a "brilliant mother". See PA story COURTS Walthamstow. Photo credit should read: Family Handout/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Pregnant woman killed by abusive boyfriend who had already murdered before

Channel: UK UK October 18, 2025 By Sam Corbishley

Killer with 'Hitman' neck tattoo jailed for life shouts insults in the dock

Channel: UK UK October 16, 2025 By Sarah Hooper
Play Video Predator tried to snatch teenage girl off street while she walked home from work

Predator tried to snatch teenage girl off street while she walked home from work

Channel: UK UK October 15, 2025 By Sam Corbishley
Outcry Witness website beside a black and white image of a woman. (This Is Not Right campaign) Picture: getty/ metro

Anonymous website gives sex assault victims a place to safely 'tell their story'

Channel: Tech Tech October 11, 2025 By Jen Mills
A mug shot of Vruj Patel wearing a black hooded jumper against a grey background is seen

Police urge for victims of paedophile and serial sex attacker to come forward

Channel: UK UK October 8, 2025 By John Dunne
Undated handout photo issued by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary of Annabel Mackey. Alice Mackey, 42, has pleaded guilty at Winchester Crown Court to the manslaughter of her two-year-old daughter who died after being found in a pond in Kingsley, Hampshire, in September 2023. Issue date: Monday July 28, 2025. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Mum jailed for four years for killing daughter, 2, found dead in pond

Channel: UK UK October 7, 2025 By Luke Alsford
A woman looking through the window... Social distancing.

My ex forced me to have his baby – then the abuse got worse

Channel: Families Families October 5, 2025 By Anonymous
Rear view image of a woman sitting alone on a bed in bedroom

Call for new law to punish domestic abusers who drive their victims to suicide

Channel: UK UK October 3, 2025 By Sam Corbishley