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Inexperienced social worker did not identify Sara Sharif’s father as posing any risk

The murdered girl had been allowed to live with her father, who had repeatedly attracted the attention of police and social workers

The Guardian - UK

Paul and Jack were murdered by their abusive father. Why had the family courts granted him contact?

Ten years ago, Claire Throssell’s sons were killed by their father, a man with a history of violence. She explains why she is fighting to ensure their voices are heard now – and to put an end to more tragedies

The Guardian - UK

Father who is convicted rapist stripped of parental responsibility for daughter

Mother hopes case will ‘shine a light’ on family courts and Cafcass

The Guardian - UK

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Mother ‘devastated’ after rapist ex-partner given access to their daughter

Convicted sex offender who was also found to have raped child’s mother was allowed contact by family court

The Guardian - UK

Journalists win court fight to publish UK sex offender’s name

Bureau of Investigative Journalism applied to name father who wanted to have unsupervised contact with his child

The Guardian - UK

Woman raped by ex-partner left traumatised by English family courts

Complainant forced to give evidence for second time as case reheard

The Guardian - UK

The Family Court system that gave Finley Boden back to his killer parents

A barrister has explained the workings of the Family Courts, one of the most secretive parts of the court system.

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Baby returned to parents who went on to murder him after agency 'thought they'd changed'

Little Finley fatally collapsed on Christmas Day 2020, just over a month after he returned to his parents’ home in Old Whittington, Derbyshire, after a Family Court ordered his return

Daily Mirror

Court gave baby to parents who killed him after hearing they were not a risk

Finley died aged 10-months old with 150 injuries

Wales Online

Parents killed baby after family court told they did not pose unmanageable risk

Ten-month-old Finley Boden died on Christmas Day 2020 after a campaign of abuse at the hands of parents Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden.

The Independent UK

Children’s service says there was ‘nothing to suggest’ parents would murder son

The Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service said Shannon Marsden and Stephen Boden had managed to ‘deceive everyone’.

The Independent UK

MPs call for inquiry into use of ‘alienation’ claims in parental disputes

Concern that unregulated experts’ diagnoses are being used to silence parents or undermine abuse allegations in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Busker claimed judge 'ordered him to be killed' and filmed private family court hearings

Elavi Dowie was a familiar face busking in Liverpool city centre

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