A handful of violent and degrading attacks on disabled people have provoked outrage among the press and public. But are they isolated cases or one end of a spectrum of intimidation and violence that many disabled people encounter?

A former immigration officer who raped a girl under 13 is jailed and told to sign the sex offenders' register.

A man who built up a network of paedophile customers using the eBay auction site is jailed for five years.

Critics deliver their verdicts on Zorro: The Musical, which has opened at the West End's Garrick Theatre.

Sex seems to be everywhere these days, yet the details of Max Mosley's privacy hearing have helped lift a veil on one type of sexual behaviour still shrouded in secrecy - sadomasochism.

Greg Rutherford claims the long jump title at the British Olympic trials - plus a round-up

Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff says he has fresh information about the whereabouts of SS medical officer Aribert Heim who carried out atrocities in concentration camps.

A care worker is found guilty of a sadistic sexual assault on an elderly patient in his charge at a nursing home.

A profile of controversial motor sport boss Max Mosley, currently suing the News of the World in the High Court.

A care worker tells a court he did not shower after allegedly assaulting a patient, and no evidence was found on him.

A care assistant sexually assaulted a nursing home resident and then asked a colleague to lie, a trial hears.

The Foreign Secretary David Miliband says President Mugabe cannot be the legitimate leader of Zimbabwe.

A man and two youths jailed for life for killing a disabled man have their minimum sentences reduced on appeal.

A man and two youths jailed for life for killing a disabled man seek leave to appeal against their sentences.

A Royal Navy Petty Officer who murdered two young men wins a three-year reduction in his jail term.

A 40-year-old convicted rapist is convicted of sexually attacking and killing a teenage neighbour.

Four teenagers who filmed an attack on a homeless man are convicted of inflicting life-threatening injuries.

A Kent man has been jailed for carrying out 30 sex offences on a young girl over several years.

Children should swear an oath of allegiance to enhance a shared sense of citizenship, ministers propose. Readers have suggested their own wording for a very British oath - some serious and some not.

Two women in Australia who murdered a girl from Dorset and then kissed over her body are jailed for life.