The suspect, who was wearing a “hoax explosive device,” was also shot dead by specialist armed police.
"Refusing child trafficking victims safety, this cruel and callous hostile environment is the prime minister’s legacy."
Exclusive: Britain claims to be a world leader on tackling modern slavery, but new data obtained by BuzzFeed News has revealed the alarming number of child victims put at risk of deportation.
Exclusive: An employment tribunal seen by BuzzFeed News has found the MoJ gave Kathryn Hopkins a mark of “must improve” in her midyear review as a result of her whistleblowing.
Exclusive: The new commission will look at the difficulty of overturning wrongful convictions in England and Wales, as “innocent people [are] being left on the scrap heap.”
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Kathryn Hopkins, who has taken her former employer to tribunal, said the government department had a culture of making research look more favourable.
An employment tribunal heard that Kathryn Hopkins, who is accusing the Ministry of Justice of bullying her out of her job, was told her findings that the therapy made rapists more like to reoffend “had been validated”.
Kathryn Hopkins told an employment tribunal that when her study found that sex offender treatment programmes increased reoffending, managers reacted with “anger and disbelief”.
Kathryn Hopkins’ study of the controversial Sex Offender Treatment Programme, believed to be attended by rapist John Worboys among others, found it made prisoners more likely to offend again.
Exclusive: New research seen by BuzzFeed News shows that the number of people being turned away by family lawyers has risen fourfold since 2014.
A senior lawyer said heavily redacted internal MoJ messages obtained by BuzzFeed News showed staff were “deliberately frustrating legitimate journalistic inquiry”.
An employment tribunal heard that Kathryn Hopkins, who is accusing the Ministry of Justice of bullying her out of her job, was told her findings that the therapy made rapists more like to reoffend “had been validated”.
The parents of Alice Barnett, 19, and Summer Robertson, 21, are taking legal action after their daughters drowned in a rip current while on a volunteering programme in South Africa.
A BuzzFeed News investigation reveals prison officers have been illegally strip-searching prisoners, including victims of sexual violence and those with severe mental health issues.
Exclusive: The number of people seeking support in court because they have no lawyer is up 520% since 2011. BuzzFeed News spent three days in Birmingham's courts to find out how these people cope.
A growing number of families are forced to live in a single room, sometimes for years, as councils struggle to house them appropriately. BuzzFeed News investigates a hidden housing scandal.
Sir Ernest Ryder, senior president of tribunals, said the quality of evidence provided by the Department for Work and Pensions is so poor it would be “wholly inadmissible” in any other court.
“How can this possibly be just because I wasn’t born here? I grew up here, all my life’s been here... this is very hostile and cruel," Shannoy McLeod told BuzzFeed News.
Exclusive: More than 40 people thought they had been found executive jobs with visas attached by Amita Solutions. Instead they lost thousands of pounds and their chance of legal status in Britain.
