Twenty-five years ago, the nation was horrified by the cruel death of an eight-year-old girl who suffered unimaginable abuse at the hands of those who were supposed to protect her. Starved, beaten, ...

Laming's landmark report into brutal murder of eight-year-old laid the basis for extensive children's services reforms ...

A social worker fired after Victoria Climbie's murder is at the centre of a High Court battle over whether she should work with children again. Angella Mairs was sacked for gross misconduct by north ...

Junior policemen who worked on the Victoria Climbie abuse case have accused senior officers of making them scapegoats. The claims were made at the public inquiry into the eight-year-old's death, which ...

The parents of murdered child abuse victim Victoria Climbie are considering taking legal action against authorities who failed to stop their daughter being abused, neglected and tortured. At the end ...

Tragic Victoria, eight, died after months of horrific abuse at the hands of her French great-aunt and her boyfriend VICTORIA CLIMBIE’S eldest brother has slammed social services’ failure to protect ...

The Victoria Climbie case was the most horrific child abuse case seen in this country and did little to improve the negative portrayal of social workers in the media. Victoria Climbie died in February ...

The parents of murdered Victoria Climbie are to build a school in Abidjan in memory of their daughter. Berthe and Francis Climbie sent Victoria from Abidjan, capital of Ivory Coast, to live in Britain ...

Child killer Carl Manning, who took part in the murder of eight-year-old Victoria Climbie, will not be released from prison, the Parole Board has said. Victoria was tortured to death in 2000 by her ...

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