News Things to do Sport Lifestyle Support Us

Women's Safety

All the latest news and information on women's safety.

Specialist rape court to be set up in London to handle high case numbers

Three specialist rape courts are to be set up in England

London Live News

Emma Bartholomew

Author Picture Icon

A specialist rape court in London will be one of three set up in England, as part of a pilot scheme designed to improve dismal conviction rates for serious sexual offences.

People in the crowd turning on their phone torches in Clapham Common, at a vigil for Sarah Everard

London Live News

Stratford woman fined for Covid breaches at Sarah Everard vigil

Emma Bartholomew

Author Picture Icon

Clapton assault: four men will appear before Thames Magistrates' Court. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

Court Watch

Man charged with fatal stabbing of woman in Custom House

Holly Chant

Author Picture Icon

Five people from East Ham have been charged in connection with an alleged conspiracy to facilitate i

London Live News | Updated

Man held in murder probe after woman fatally stabbed in Custom House

Andrew Brookes

Sriram Ambarla, 23, of no fixed address, was charged on Sunday, 27 March after stabbing in Newham

London Live News

Restaurant stabbing: Man charged with attempted murder

Cash Boyle

Author Picture Icon

Sarah Everard who was kidnapped, raped and murdered by Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens

London Live News

Sarah Everard: One year on, are our streets safer for women?

Andrew Brookes

Sarah Everard disappeared in Clapham on March 3.

Metropolitan Police | Poll

A year on from Sarah Everard's murder, how safe do you feel in London?

Daniel Gayne

A man from Upton Park in Newham has been jailed for 19 years for abuse of ex partner

London Live News

'I remember everything he’s done': Upton Park abuser jailed for 19 years

Cash Boyle

Author Picture Icon

Abdallah Baballah, 26, attacked women walking home at night in Newham and Dagenham

London Live News

'Extremely dangerous' predator who raped and robbed women jailed

Sally Patterson

Author Picture Icon

Lazar Valentin, 21, of Hockley Avenue in East Ham, admitted to murdering Maria Rawlings in Ilford

London Live News

'Evil' predator jailed for battering and strangling lone woman

Emma Bartholomew

Author Picture Icon