On Friday, a one-year pilot, which gives victims of serious sexual assault access to transcripts of judge’s sentencing remarks, will end. The Ministry of Justice has said the scheme will be made permanent,

Crown prosecutors decided not to call a final witness and instead told the judge they had concluded their case.

A man who has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a woman in the Marin Headlands has been sentenced to federal prison, prosecutors said.

John Laurinaitis, a former World Wrestling Entertainment executive, has reached a settlement with a former WWE employee who accused him of sexual assault and has agreed to provide evidence in her ongoing lawsuit against embattled former WWE CEO Vince McMahon.