Sources: BBC
Former Attorney-General of Australia Christian Porter announces he will retire from politics following sexual assault allegations published earlier in the year, and controversy surrounding his reliance on a blind trust in a legal battle against the Australian Broadcasting Corporation over their reporting of the allegations. 2021-12-1
German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer withdraws a platoon from a NATO mission in Lithuania. The withdrawal follows a report from "Der Spiegel" on Monday stating that the platoon's members engaged in misconduct, including bullying, filming a sexual assault against another soldier, and singing antisemitic songs to mark the birthday of dictator Adolf Hitler. 2021-06-16
Manish Shah, a general practitioner in the United Kingdom, is given three life sentences at the Old Bailey for 90 sexual assaults on 24 of his female patients. 2020-02-7
Australian cardinal George Pell is convicted of sexually assaulting two 13-year-old choirboys at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral. The verdict has been suppressed by a gag order until now. He is the Catholic Church's most senior official to be convicted of a sexual crime in history. 2019-02-26
London police end their three-year long, round-the-clock guard outside the Ecuadorian Embassy waiting to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Officers have been stationed at this embassy since June 2012. Police said the operation cost 11.1 million pounds (17.6 million dollars) through April 2015. Assange is wanted for jumping bail in England and sexual assault allegations in Sweden. Assange denies the Swedish charges and suspects the real reason is to bring him to the U.S. 2015-10-12
Malaysia states that it will extradite a junior military official who returned home after being charged with sexual assault at its diplomatic mission in New Zealand. 2014-07-1
English singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers dies at the age of 68. 2013-02-18
Six people appear in court on terrorism charges, a week after being arrested in the English city of Birmingham. 2011-09-26
English musician PJ Harvey wins her second Mercury Prize for best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland for her album "Let England Shake". 2011-09-6
United States nurse William Francis Melchert-Dinkel is convicted of aiding the suicides of an English man and Canadian woman. 2011-03-15