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🚨NEW: An 18-year-old Southampton university student, Henry, has died after being repeatedly stabbed by 23-year-old Vikrum Digwa After being stabbed, Police arrested Henry as Digwa claimed he had been racially abused. Henry then passed out and died in the street [@DailyMail]

🚨NEW: An 18-year-old Southampton university student, Henry, has died after being repeatedly stabbed by 23-year-old Vikrum Digwa After being stabbed, Police arrested Henry as Digwa claimed he had been racially abused. Henry then passed out and died in the street [@DailyMail]

Bristol Migrant Grooming Gang Trial Begins, Judge Imposes Reporting Restrictions. Six young men are currently on trial at Bristol Crown Court accused of being part of a grooming gang network that preyed on multiple young vulnerable British schoolgirls over several years. The defendants, many of them foreign nationals who arrived in the UK as migrants or asylum seekers, face a series of serious charges including multiple rapes, arranging and facilitating the sexual exploitation of young girls, sexual assaults, and supplying Class A drugs like cocaine and ecstasy to their victims. Mohamed Arafe, 19, a Syrian national, is charged with five counts of arranging or facilitating child sexual exploitation, one count of causing or inciting exploitation, one sexual assault, plus drug supply offences. Sina Omari, 20, an Iranian national, faces two counts of rape, multiple exploitation counts, making indecent images of a child, and Class A drug supply. Wadie Sharaf, 21, another Syrian national, is accused of one rape, one attempted rape, three sexual assaults, and sexual activity with a child. Mohammed Kurdi, 21, from Henbury, faces multiple rapes and exploitation charges plus drug supply. Hussain Bashar, 19, from Southmead, is charged with one count of rape. The group also includes others such as Sardam Ahmed, Iraqi background, and Ihab Al-Eisawi, Egyptian, with the trial proceedings starting with six of the original seven charged. All six deny the allegations. The alleged offending spans 2022 to 2025 and involves 11 vulnerable teenage girls in their mid-to-late teens, whom prosecutors say were systematically targeted, given drugs and alcohol, coerced, and passed around for sex in what police described as group based child sexual exploitation. This case and the silence surrounding it resembles the grooming gang scandals that have destroyed families and communities across Britain for over a decade. Over and over again, inquiries have exposed how groups of men, sharing similar cultural and religious backgrounds, exploited working class girls while authorities repeatedly turned a blind eye for fear of being labelled racist. The trial, which began this month and is expected to last around 12 weeks, comes after a major police investigation by Avon & Somerset force. Media outlets including Bristol Live and the Guardian have challenged reporting restrictions, but Judge Moira Macmillan imposed them on May 14, 2026. She acknowledged the significant public interest in grooming gangs and transparency but ruled that full contemporaneous reporting risked prejudicing the jury and contaminating evidence. As a result, while the basic fact of the trial and general nature of the charges can be reported, detailed evidence, and witness testimony remains unreportable. The trial continues. #UKNews #CrimeNews #Bristol

Iran executes protesting dad, denies family last visit, relatives say trib.al/cSY3ALc

Prosecutors have been issued new legal guidance on the use of offensive banners, slogans, chants or symbols to recognise the changing context and increase in increase in hate crime attacks ahead of significant planned protests in London this weekend. orlo.uk/z2Tcn

So the brave and brilliant @salltweets has lost her appeal in Australia. It means that when a woman advertises for a female roommate, travel companion, potential lesbian partner etc…THIS BLOKE is allowed to rock up in replies, otherwise he’s being discriminated against. Madness.

@JoFMarshall @SDewherst @MaeveHalligan @BuckAngel @salltweets The whole thing is fab. But here’s another BRILLIANT clip. Being in the room was electric, honestly

Dance teacher who survived attack ‘devastated’ her files were viewed inappropriately 👇 telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/1…

lIf you do anything today, watch @MaeveHalligan at the Cambridge Union. I genuinely think this was the first time many people in that room were confronted with the hard reality of the trans debate, rather than the slogans that usually surround it. @BuckAngel was exceptional: calm, articulate, humane. Ultimate respect. And then there was Helen Webberley. I remember once thinking the criticism directed at her by GC women was excessive, especially the claim she was ‘pure evil’. After hearing her speak, I no longer think that. She is totally insincere. I can deal with hard ideologues- they believe they are telling the truth; they are genuine, @HelenWebberley is different. One audience member, a trans-identified male and former patient of hers, stood to speak during points of information. His account of how he had been treated was deeply disturbing. Watch the full debate. It is worth your time.