Source: msn.com 5/11/26 A prisoner was found dead in his cell on the day he was due to be released from jail, an inquest has heard. Nigel John Keenan, known as John, was found by prison staff at Haverigg in Millom, Cumbria [England], in the early hours of 13 March 2025. An inquest at Workington Coroners Court, scheduled to take place over five days, is being held in front of a jury of six women and five men. Coroner Robert Cohen told jurors this was necessary because Keenan’s death had…
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EU: Rape must be defined based on the absence of consent in all EU countries
Source: europarl.europa.eu 4/28/26 Commission urged to propose EU-wide consent-based rape legislation Silence, lack of resistance or previous relationship must not imply consent MEPs call for a victim-centred approach with specialist support, training and prevention measures Compulsory training for professionals in contact with survivors Parliament wants the Commission to propose legislation establishing a common definition of rape based on freely given, informed, and revocable consent. In a report adopted on Tuesday with 447 votes for, 160 against, and 43 abstentions, MEPs call on member states that still rely on force-…
Read MoreAnother poof the registry is punishment: $1.5 million Google suit by Canadian fiddle player falsely accused
Source: theguardian.com 5/4/26 An acclaimed Canadian fiddle player has launched a $1.5m civil lawsuit against Google, alleging that the online giant defamed him by falsely identifying him as a sex offender in an AI-generated summary of his life and career. Ashley MacIsaac, a three-time Juno award-winning musician, filed the claim in the Ontario superior court of justice, asserting that Google was liable for the “foreseeable republication” of its AI-generated Overview feature, which previously published defamatory claims that he had been convicted of multiple criminal offences, including the sexual assault of a woman,…
Read MoreCanada: Convicted child pornography designated a long-term offender
Source: globalnews.ca 3/17/26 Convicted child pornography designated a long-term offender. Repeat child pornography offender Shane _______ has been designated a long-term offender. On Thursday morning, judge Richard Danyliuk accepted a joint submission from the Crown and defence for a seven-year prison sentence and a 10-year supervision order Watch the video
Read MoreCanada: Ontario Court Ruling on Child Pornography Sentencing Raises Concerns
Source: ullaw.ca 2/21/26 In a significant decision from Ontario’s Court of Appeal, a man from Vaughan was spared prison time despite possessing a large collection of child pornography. Matthew Elias, who lived with his parents near Steeles Avenue and Hurontario Street, was originally sentenced to house arrest for two years less a day and probation for three years. The Crown had appealed for a harsher sentence, but the appeal court decided that incarceration would not serve justice, as Elias was already halfway through his conditional sentence. This ruling has sparked…
Read MoreUK: Shamed Scottish Judges
Source: bettinaarndt.substack.com 2/17/26 Across the world, feminist legal academics are bullying politicians and legislators into adopting new measures aimed at increasing rape convictions. The result, year after year, is justice systems increasingly tilted to favour accusers, undermining the right to a fair trial for men, and increasing the likelihood that innocent men will be convicted. Scotland judges were doing well in this macabre race to the bottom, but now they have suffered a setback. A UK Supreme Court has warned that Scottish courts are violating a defendant’s right to a fair trial.…
Read MoreCanada: Hamilton judge finds Ontario sex offender registry is unconstitutional
Source: torontosun.com 2/11/26 It’s difficult to imagine a decision more out of touch with the public. A Hamilton judge has actually ruled Ontario’s sex offender registry violates the rights of convicted sex abusers and is unconstitutional. Thankfully, the lower court judge doesn’t have the authority to strike down sections of Christopher’s Law — that power belongs only to judges in the Superior Court and above — and so Davin Garg’s shocking ruling applies just to the one convicted sex offender who came before him. It comes at a time when…
Read MoreUK: Inmate’s suicide highlights indifference by guards when it comes to sex offenders
Source: bbc.com 2/3/26 A sex offender killed himself after being bullied and attacked by other inmates at a prison, a coroner has said. Nigel Feckey was declared dead in his cell at HMP Fosse Way, in Glen Parva, Leicestershire, on 23 September 2024, after being repeatedly targeted by fellow prisoners who found out about his offending. Assistant coroner Dianne Hocking, who oversaw Feckey’s inquest, which concluded on 23 January, said she was concerned sex offenders were not segregated from other prisoners at the jail at the time. Hocking said Feckey…
Read MoreUK: Police facial recognition cameras catch huge number of sex offenders in just few weeks
Source: mirror.co.uk 1/28/26 Facial recognition cameras have resulted in multiple sex offenders being arrested in just a few weeks, police have said. Greater Manchester Police said it has used Live Facial Recognition (LFR) cameras 23 times since October – and in that time, one in five of all arrests made have involved registered sex offenders. The cameras, which are positioned on top of special police vans, scan faces for unique biometric data (‘faceprints’) and instantly compare them to a watchlist of wanted offenders, alerting officers if a match is found.…
Read MoreSingapore to ban unwanted visitors from boarding planes
Source: bangkokpost.com 1/20/26 Singapore will order airlines worldwide to prohibit undesirable passengers from boarding flights to the city-state from Jan 30 under a new policy to boost security. The Singapore Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said no-boarding directives would be enforced for all airlines flying to the country to prevent people who fail to meet requirements or “undesirable immigrants” from boarding planes. Travellers are normally denied entry to a country by immigration authorities after they arrive at a port of entry. The ICA said the new rule is a step forward as…
Read MoreCanada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database
Source: rcmp.ca 1/15/26 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) launched the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database, a national publicly accessible tool. This is the first of its kind in Canada. The Database contains centralized information about people who have been found guilty of a sexual offence against children and who pose a high risk of committing crimes of a sexual nature. The Database contains information that has previously been made public by a police service or public authority. Only the offenders deemed as high risk of committing a crime…
Read MoreUK: Scottish National Party presents Bill to strip Mandelson and other friends of sex offenders of their peerages
Source: morningstaronline.co.uk 1/11/26 The Scottish National Party (SNP) will present a Bill Tuesday to strip Peter Mandelson and other friends of sex offenders of their peerages. It comes as Lord Mandelson declined to apologise to Jeffrey Epstein’s victims for remaining friends with the convicted financier. The former ambassador to the US said he had paid a “calamitous” price for being sacked over his association with “evil monster” Epstein. He apologised for a system that failed Epstein’s victims, but not for his continued support after Epstein’s first conviction. Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to…
Read MoreUK: Vigilante Torches Car Outside Registrant’s Home
Source: edp24.co.uk 1/6/25 A car was destroyed by fire outside the clifftop home of a convicted paedophile. The blaze broke out at a property linked to Jason Davis, 51, who was jailed for two years in February at Norwich Crown Court for breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order (SHPO) and for shooting two 13-year-old boys with an airgun. A vehicle parked in the front yard of the house was reportedly set alight at around 5pm on Friday, January 2. A neighbour said the fire spread rapidly and that the car…
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Read MoreCanada: The Canadian Supreme Court actually did the right thing in its child pornography ruling
Source: theconversation.com 11/23/25 The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the Attorney General of Québec v. Senneville struck down one-year mandatory minimum sentences for accessing or possessing child pornography. Immediately, politicians and commentators denounced the ruling. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have urged Ottawa to invoke Section 33, also known as the notwithstanding clause, of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The clause allows Parliament or provincial legislatures to override certain Charter rights for five years. Their alarm fits a broader pattern of constitutional populism…
Read MoreUK: Moral Panic About Rough Sex Gives Way to Censorship in the UK
Source: reason.com 11/12/25 British regulators and lawmakers are hot on a measure that would make possessing or publishing strangulation porn a crime. Second-wave feminism of the worst sort is alive and well in Britain, apparently. The United Kingdom is on its way to criminalizing depictions of choking during sex, in a move it describes as boosting “protection for women and girls.” The ban wouldn’t just apply to disturbing or publishing such porn, but also possessing it. It also wouldn’t matter if the images were AI-generated. Proponents of the law suggest the mere…
Read MoreAustralia: Cop who was hailed a ‘hero’ on social media jailed over $100,000 robbery from sex offender’s home
Source: 9news.com.au 11/7/25 A police officer who was hailed a vigilante hero on social media for breaking into a convicted child sex offender’s outback home, tying him up and stealing $100,000 in cash has been jailed. The NSW officer, whose identity is protected by court orders, knew his 78-year-old victim had a stash of cash in a safe because he searched his home over a child sex offence in 2020. Four years later, the officer and a co-offender drove from Sydney to break into the elderly man’s home, borrowing a…
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