LONDON (AP) — Victims of childhood sexual abuse said Friday they were disappointed that prosecutors had dropped a sex-crimes prosecution against politician Greville Janner, who died before court proceedings could begin. Lord Janner, a former Labour Party lawmaker and peer,
Alleged sex attack victims of Lord Janner have vowed to continue their legal battle against the disgraced former Labour peer hours after learning of his death. The veteran politician, who had been suffering from dementia for several years, died peacefully
Labour peer Lord Janner has been given a team of publicly funded lawyers following a judge’s ruling on Monday that he is unfit to stand trial on child sex abuse charges. Earlier this week 87-year-old Lord Janner was ruled too ill to face trial
LONDON – Lord Janner (pictured left), an 87-year-old member of the House of Lords, is too ill to face trial on charges of serious child sex crimes, a judge ruled on Monday, after months of legal argument over the peer’s
Lord Janner has so far failed to attend court to face the 22 child abuse charges against him. Having been ordered to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning the former Labour MP now risks being arrested. Legal arguments from Lord Janner’s defence team have been
Lord Janner (pictured on the left) may face a warrant for his arrest if he fails to attend court to face 22 child abuse charges this Friday. The former Labour MP has been ordered to show up, but his defence team
Lord (Greville) Janner, an ageing member of the House of Lords, was ordered on Friday to appear in court to face charges of serious child sex crimes, despite defence lawyers arguing he was too unwell to attend. Janner, 87, former
Lord Janner of Braunstone will be prosecuted for historic child abuse offences dating from the 1960s to 1980s, the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed today. The first hearing in the criminal case will be heard in court this August. The decision
A man who claims that Greville Janner abused him in the House of Commons when he was nine years old has called for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to be sacked after her decision not to prosecute the Peer
A Member of Parliament has accused Lord Greville Janner of Braunstone of being a “serial child abuser” who “violated, raped and tortured” children in the House of Commons. Labour MP Simon Danczuk referenced Lord Janner when raising the issue of the Crown
A former Labour MP accused of multiple child sex offences made official visits to parliament even though he had been diagnosed with dementia so severe that he could not stand trial. Lord Janner visited Westminster three times even though medics
Boris Johnson has joined a campaign mounted by a group of senior politicians who want to see Lord Janner prosecuted for alleged sex abuse after the case was dropped for the second time. The Labour Peer was first accused of
Doubts are growing over the severity of Lord Janner’s dementia, after it emerged that he wrote and signed a letter to the House of Lords only two weeks ago. His poor mental health was cited by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)