by Lucy Hainsworth | Dec 8, 2023 | Crime, News, Top Story
Image: South Yorkshire police Four individuals have been arrested in an ongoing investigation into Modern Slavery in the Rotherham and Sheffield area. Officers executing warrants have arrested a 45-year-old man and a 37-year-old woman from the Dinnington area,...
by Louise Armstrong | Oct 31, 2023 | Community
Image: Taxi stock image A decline in taxi-related sexual crimes leaves Rotherham taxi drivers criticising council’s proposed plans to tighten safety regulations. Rotherham private-hire vehicle drivers say council’s proposal to tighten licensing regulations will affect...
by Louise Armstrong | Oct 31, 2023 | News, Politics
Image: Taxi stock image Tighter taxi regulation to be enforced as measures to protect the vulnerable continue after Rotherham’s history of child sexual exploitation (CSE), Rotherham Council announces. The main changes to the licensing policy are refresher training for...
by Hannah Auld | Oct 25, 2023 | Community, News
Image: Stock photo of a person typing on a keyboard Twitter has been flooded with a slew of Islamophobic tweets from Rotherham locals drawing comparisons between the Hamas terrorist attacks and the five Pakistani men convicted of the Rotherham child sex scandal. One...
by Shakthi Thyagarajan | Oct 19, 2023 | Court, Crime, News
Image: Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar mugshot Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 42, pleaded guilty to two counts of rape and two counts of indecent assault at Sheffield Crown Court on 17 October 2023. Akhtar admitted to raping his 13-year-old victim twice between August 2001 and...
