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Former Tory councillor’s ex-wife was advertised online for sexual assaults while drugged, court hears as trial of four men begins
Four men have gone on trial at Winchester Crown Court accused of sexually assaulting Joanne Young after her then-husband, former Conservative councillor Philip Young, allegedly drugged her and advertised her online on Craigslist, Grindr and swinging websites. Philip Young, 50, formerly of Swindon but now of Enfield, has pleaded guilty to all 56 charges against him relating to a 13-year campaign of abuse against his ex-wife (who has waived her right to anonymity). These includ
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A nurse from Swindon Hospital conducted unnecessary intimate examinations on children for sexual gratification
Great Western Hospital from Swindon shared this image of Ashley Boyd in board papers in 2022, when he was chair of its LGBTQ+ network Ashley Boyd also known as Rhys Cronin, a Band 5 adult nurse at Great Western Hospital in Swindon, has been struck off the nursing register after a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness-to-practise panel found he carried out unnecessary testicular examinations on child patients for his own sexual gratification. Boyd qualified as an adult n
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