Travelodge has finally mandated ID checks for all replacement room keys this week. The policy change comes after widespread outrage over over the sexual assault of a solo female guest. As the Canary reported previously:

a woman was sexually assaulted after making a solo booking at the hotel – only for staff to give her attacker a key to her room. The perpetrator of the sexual assault, Kyran Smith, told staff he was her boyfriend and needed another key card. Despite not being present on the booking, the hotel gave him that key which enabled his abuse.

The budget hotel chain only implemented the security overhaul after a survivor and 100 MPs shamed the brand for its safeguarding failures.

A woman was sexually assaulted in a Travelodge. Staff gave her attacker the key to her room after he pretended to be her boyfriend. She was offered £30 in compensation. Appalling.

Along with 100 Labour colleagues, I’ve written to Travelodge’s CEO & asked to meet. pic.twitter.com/1pxjVqZvn3

— Anneliese Midgley MP (@anneliese_midge) March 8, 2026

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Travelodge put profit before basic safety

Smith is now serving 7.5 years in prison, but is that really the end of the story? No, not when the hotel’s role in this assault remains a point of national outrage:

‘How can you be sure if you are a woman and you’re going to stay at one of their hotels that you will be safe?’

Labour MP Jen Craft told #BBCBrealfast more than 100 MPs have demanded a meeting with the boss of Travelodge after a woman was sexually assaulted in her hotel bed by a… pic.twitter.com/MZqztwW5dd

— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) March 9, 2026

The company’s new policy finally requires staff to verify the identity of anyone asking for a room key. This is either going to be through the booking reference, or through direct contact with the person within the room. Travelodge have also claimed to have “intensified” staff training on safeguarding processes across their UK hotels. But we need to ask why it took a life-changing trauma and a fucking PR nightmare for a huge corporation to implement the most basic level of security? Guest safety should be a fundamental right, not a reactive damage-control measure.

The measly cost of human trauma

Travelodge’s initial response to this fuck up was a measly £30 voucher offered to the survivor. Literally just a refund on the cost of staying the evening. That’s it. They treated a brutal sexual assault like a minor customer service complaint, or a shitty cold breakfast. The company since admitted this offer was “inappropriate” and guest safety is now their “priority”.

How the hell was it not before? If safety were a priority, they would never have facilitated the invasion of what should have been a private room.

Over 100 MPs co-signed a letter to the CEO demanding immediate accountability. Anneliese Midgley said the chain played an “intrinsic role” in the abuse. The survivor herself has been the driving force for these changes stating:

I don’t want this to happen to anyone else. It’s not just about me, it’s about making sure hotels are safe for everyone.

Corporate greed consistently prioritises the ease of check-in over human life. A shitty £30 voucher shows exactly how the corporation quantifies the trauma of women. It reflects a disgusting culture where corporate liability and profit margins matter more than people. They only move when the political and public pressure becomes a threat to their profit margins.

Industry standards are no excuse for rape

Travelodge initially tried to hide behind the claim this it followed ‘industry standard security procedures’. This suggests the entire budget hotel industry is currently failing to protect women. All of them. We cannot allow “standard procedure” to be used as an excuse for corporate negligence. Travelodge’s chief executive Jo Boyden stated on:

We have done an internal review of our room access security policies and have made some immediate changes to ensure that an additional or replacement room key is only issued with explicit permission from the person, or people, staying in the room.

This has been rolled out to all of our hotels, supported by training for our 12,000 customer-facing colleagues.

The CEO went on to say that safety of guests was the most important thing and that the company has commissioned an independent review of its room security measures. The Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Eleanor Lyons called this case a “stark reminder” that criminals exploit “weaknesses in hotel security”.

‘They offered me a complimentary breakfast, it was nothing in comparison to the trauma and fear’

As MPs meet Travelodge over concerns about security, Emma Jackson told #BBCBreakfast about a recent ‘frightening’ experience a stranger used a key card to enter her hotel room, as… pic.twitter.com/Eg3VPWdpMe

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— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) March 14, 2026

As the Canary reported, sexual offenses increased 511% in the last 20 years. In 2024 alone 71,227 rapes were recorded by police and yet only 2.7% of them resulted in charge.  Politicians are right to demand total transparency from the board regarding these new training modules. We need to see a complete overhaul of how hotel security functions. Now.

Women should not have to live in fear for their lives in a room they have paid for. The fact a man can simply lay claim to a woman’s personal space is sickening.

Will Travelodge actually change it’s internal culture, or is this more corporate window dressing? We will not feel safe until we see these policies enforced by law across the entire sector.

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Israeli terrorists euphemistically known as ‘settlers’ invaded and terrorised a West Bank village on Sunday 15 March 2026. The ethno-supremacist land thieves attacked Khirbet Humsa, rounded up families and then beat and sexually assaulted children and women in front of their bound families and neighbours. A father was also “severely” sexually assaulted and beaten in front of his family.

Once they were done, the settlers pretended to pour petrol over their victims, terrifying them that they would suffer the same fate as a horrifically-burned Palestinian youth in Ramallah a day earlier.

During the hour-long attack, the ‘settlers’ stripped and beat children, particularly girls, in front of their children and threatened to kill them and rape the families’ women. The invaders also assaulted two women, one Portuguese and one from the US, who were in the village as human rights activists. The father who was sexually attacked was bound, stripped and beaten before the terrorists attacked his genitals with clubs.

As the Canary’s Charlie Jaay reported from the West Bank:

The settlers also blindfolded activists, beat up one Palestinian man with rocks, and sexually assaulted another person. Activists were asked if they wanted their fingers cut and their rings were stolen as well as their passports, phones and money.

After the attack, because the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) blocked their access to the property, it took three hours for the first ambulance to arrive for the injured.

Israeli atrocities

The UK’s ‘mainstream’ media have completely ignored the attack – but Israeli paper Haaretz published details. One young woman told the paper:

I woke up to the settlers’ shouts. They slapped me and dragged us outside, bound us, tore off my head covering, and ripped some of my clothes. They pulled the girls out and beat them, even the little ones. They mocked us and celebrated our humiliation.

A 74-year-old victim said:

Three of them beat me hard on the head, hands and stomach. The other smashed the security cameras, the router and the lights. I started to lose consciousness.

They poured water on me, and during this time one settler stole the watch from my hand. I was sure they were going to rape me

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Another, unable to walk unaided after the attack and still bearing marks from bindings, was slashed with a knife:

They came to my home, and I tried to escape, but they caught me. They cut me with a knife above the wrist and bound my hands and feet with a zip tie. They poured cold water on us and threw us to the ground while we were bound, then piled us on top of each other inside the structure, men, women and children.

The US human rights activist said:

I woke up… to my friend screaming at us to get up before immediately being swarmed and trapped in the tent by about six masked Israeli settlers armed with heavy wooden sticks. They immediately beat the three of us to the ground, smashing our faces with their fists and clubs. They zip-tied our hands and feet and were yelling things like, ‘We are going to kill you!’

Others ransacked our bags, stealing our wallets and passports. One asked me for my phone, and every time I said I didn’t know where it was – because the whole tent was a mess and I couldn’t move – he hit me in the face.

Sexual assault

She also confirmed the sexual assault on the male victim, who asked the paper not to share full details of what the terrorists had done to him:

They pulled down the Palestinian man’s pants, poured water all over him and brutally beat him into the dirt. All he could do was curl into a fetal position and scream when they beat him with their clubs. It was one of the worst things I’ve ever seen.

They kept hitting and kicking all of us, but the Palestinians were receiving the most brutal blows. I lay there shaking, with my hands over my face to protect my face. [One elderly victim] was curled up in the fetal position, zip-tied, with a bleeding gash on his swollen cheek. He looked unconscious. In a whisper you could hear the kids praying. It was one of the few things that pulled me through the horror.

They screamed at us to remove our rings, saying, ‘I will break your fingers if you don’t take them off faster,’ and they kept hitting my face while I struggled to remove mine with my hands zip-tied. Every so often they asked our names and where we were from.

At first I thought [the water they poured over us] was gasoline, and the thought of being burned alive in the tent with the Palestinian family flooded my mind. Someone ripped my jacket open with a knife, aggressively cutting from my left armpit to my hip. One settler started messing with my belt, and I screamed because I thought they were going to rape me.

One of the ‘settlers’ did not even bother to mask his face. One Palestinian victim said:

He spoke in Arabic [in front of everyone including the children] and threatened that we should leave. Otherwise they would return, burn the houses, kill the children, and rape the women.

At least six people were hospitalised by the attack. After the attackers left with the village’s livestock, Israeli soldiers arrived and prevented the village’s men pursuing them:

When the army arrived, they detained us. That gave the settlers time to get away with the herd. About an hour and a half later an ambulance arrived. The army detained us so the healthy men couldn’t pursue the settlers.

Routine violence

‘Settlers’ have murdered eleven Palestinians in the West Bank since Israel began its illegal war on Iran. In 2025, the racist mobs murdered 240 people in the West Bank, including 55 children. Sexual violence by Israeli settlers and military against their Palestinian victims is common. Thousands held without charge in Israeli torture camps face daily beatings and sexual torture.

The Israeli regime is currently ignoring well over 2,000 extradition requests for alleged and convicted paedophiles. In April 2025 Shoshana Strook, the daughter of Israel’s far-right settlements minister fled to police and asked them to protect her, accusing both her parents and one of her brothers of raping her as a child, over a period of years, and filming the rapes.

Strook was found dead at her home on Sunday 15 March, a couple of days after appointing a lawyer to pursue justice. The authorities claim she died by suicide, but Strook had posted shortly before her death that:

If they tell you I committed suicide, don’t believe it. If they tell you I was involved in an accident, don’t believe it.

Israeli psychotherapist and trauma expert Dr Anat Gur, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program, has said that she believes organised child rape in Israel is widespread:

Organized child rape is one of the most horrific things I’ve encountered. It’s likely much more widespread than we think. It’s happening in places we least expect.

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US ‘secretary of war’ Pete Hegseth has self-owned – and self-humiliated – in an abject, whining rant at the US press corps.

Hegseth’s frustration has clearly been growing at the failure of the US to subdue the Iranian government or prevent its heavy retaliation on US bases and Israeli military and intelligence installations. So he lashed out at the media, claiming that criticising him and his boss is the same as insulting US military service people.

The man often called ‘Kegseth’ for his alleged public inebriation, a torture fan who bears a white supremacist tattoo, did spend time in the US military before becoming a TV presenter and then ‘war’ dude. However, it’s very doubtful that he knows anything about flying a jet for 36 hours, beyond hoping to use it to beat reporters with.

If he wasn’t sending soldiers, sailors and air personnel to mass murder schoolgirls, risk death themselves and put the whole world in danger on behalf of the Epstein cartel, his performance would be funny:

But his boss is targeting journalists too. Trump has suggested that media reports of US failure and Iranian resistance are treason and should be punishable by death. Meanwhile the CIA is reportedly preparing a criminal case against right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson for daring to speak to Iranians before Trump’s “Operation Epstein Distraction“.

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The UK government is rolling out an AI-empowered predictive policing system to predict the “likelihood” of criminal offences among adolescents. Open Rights Group is warning of the risks and limitations of using AI to determine the “most likely offenders.”

In conversation with the Canary, Mariano delli Santi of Open Rights Group explained that these systems are likely to single out children in care and alert authorities to targeted interventions. This means so-called predictive data models will be used to target vulnerable children.

AI is racist because it mimics society

Delli Santi said:

They say they want to help, that they will use this system to target children who are at risk of criminality, with support and therefore to prevent them from becoming criminals. However the way artificial intelligence and predictive policing works, tells us that this may not be everything in this story.

These systems will inevitably reflect society’s prejudices and stereotypes, making them inherently racist and classist, revealing problematic outcomes of predictive policing in practice.

The system, delli Santi explains, risks reproducing:

bias and stereotypes at scale. Black people, migrant people, poor people, people from geographic areas which have been historically over policed are more likely to be identified as at risk of committing a crime.

AI, as we’ve all come to discover, is massively racist. As the Canary has previously reported, 4/5 of people misidentified by facial recognition are Black.

Harvesting NHS data

Beyond bias, the unethical sourcing of data is another concern delli Santi identifies. The government wants to pull data from the NHS, police, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), and the Department for Education. So anything you tell your doctor could be used to box children into the ‘future criminal’ category. Consequently, AI-driven predictive policing may use NHS records for risk calculation.

Commenting on this Delli Santi tells the Canary:

When you go to your doctor, you expect to be able to tell them what you need to tell them, in order to receive medical treatment and you trust them to not use this data in a way that you will not expect.

If however the government starts to grab data from your general practitioner from your schools…in order to predict whether your child is going to commit a crime or not, this relationship of trust is going to be broken. People will go to their doctor and will have less trust and will think more carefully about what they’re going to disclose and reveal to them or not.

His warning is clear:

Predictive policing is a dangerous thing that has no place in a democratic society.

The government are hellbent on pushing through this policy which will criminalise your kids. However, Open Rights Group is campaigning to introduce a ban on predictive policing. You can join the campaign here.

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Donald Trump has claimed it’s a “little unfair” that a predominantly brown, Muslim country has decided to actually fight back against US colonialism.

The US and Israel started the war in Iran with illegal and unprovoked attacks. Yet now, it seems that shit got a little too real for him.

I AM LOST FOR WORDS…

“It’s Little Unfair” of Iran to Fight Back.
-Donald Trump pic.twitter.com/S3dm4fvw9M

— Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 (@hippyygoat) March 16, 2026

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You had no right to bomb and murder nearly 200 little girls in the name of freeing Iranian women. I guess if they don’t reach adulthood, they can’t be “oppressed by the regime”.

“They have no right to be doing what they’re doing” is a crazy statement when you attack someone. https://t.co/ApHFP5jObI

— Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) March 17, 2026

Who’s going to bomb the US to free all the women that Trump’s regime is subjugating?

Bro got too used to attacking children and unarmed populations in open air prisons. Cant cope when someone can fight back https://t.co/eP03qQMI20

— Bajii (@bajiipliss) March 17, 2026

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This is the type of video you watch four times just to make sure you’re not losing your mind.

The reality is, the president of the most powerful country in the world does not give a shit about Black and Brown people.

I guess Trump and his paedo friends are not used to people fighting back.

Trump: old habits die hard

And in a rare moment of lucidity, Trump admitted he went to war with Iran “out of habit”. 

He added that Israel is a great ally, which, of course, is another reason the US should start an illegal war. Israel says jump and Trump asks how high.

Unreal. Trump says he went to war with Iran “out of habit,” adding “which is not a good thing to do.”

Rare moment of lucidity, I guess 😏pic.twitter.com/sniR2htmpJ

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) March 17, 2026

Imagine bombing school children out of habit? Does he have the same excuse for hanging out with Epstein for all those years?

Trump also talked about “violent and vicious people” who have “destroyed the country. At least bro is self-aware.

“violent and vicious,” “horrible people” who have “destroyed the country.”

Every accusation is a confession. https://t.co/8SQkwiJm7d

— David Marsden (@DvdMrsdn) March 17, 2026

This is the same guy who tried to insult Governor Gavin Newsom’s intelligence, whilst accidentally calling him the “President of the United States”.

US colonialism

Countries, including occupied territories (ahem, Gaza, the Golan Heights, Southern Lebanon), have the right to self-defence under international law.

Article 51 of the United Nations Charter establishes the right to self-defence as a “fundamental exception to the prohibition on the use of force between states”. Specifically, armed attacks justify recourse to self-defence.

The US has the strongest military in the world and Israel is the only state (albeit illegal) in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Iran has neither of these, which is why the way it fights back may not make sense through conventional frameworks.

As Dr Narges Bajoghli wrote on Instagram:

Iran is targeting Gulf security architecture. For decades, the U.S. built a regional order where Gulf states host American bases, buy American weapons, and maintain stability that keeps oil flowing on U.S. terms.
Iran’s strategy dismantles that.

Strike the infrastructure. Make the bases vulnerable. Force Gulf states to question whether American security guarantees are worth the risk of being Iranian targets. Fracture the regional consensus that enabled U.S. dominance.

She added:

So they’re turning that weapon back on the global economy. Threaten shipping lanes. Target refineries in allied states.
Make oil prices spike. Create economic pain that translates to political pressure on governments waging war.

Iran is hitting the US, Israel, and countries in which the US has military bases or infrastructure, where it hurts, and Trump underestimated their willingness to do so.

Maybe if more countries fought back against the US and Israel, the world would be less fucked up.

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The High Court has ruled that the Dartmoor Commoners’ Council (DCC) has mismanaged Dartmoor commons. DCC did nothing to assess or prevent overgrazing, resulting in the deterioration of important wildlife areas.

Environmental campaign group Wild Justice brought the claim. It argued that DCC had failed to meet its legal responsibilities towards the conservation of the commons.

The High Court judgment on 17 March ruled that DCC has failed in its legal duty under the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 to assess the number of animals which should be allowed to graze on Dartmoor.

Dartmoor commons is an open area of land which covers more than two-thirds of Dartmoor National Park, spanning just under 36,000 hectares.

The Dartmoor Commons Act grants certain rights over the land to some 850 landowners, known as ‘commoners’. These include grazing rights and the rights to keep sheep, cattle and ponies.

Monitoring overgrazing on Dartmoor

The Dartmoor Commons Act also contains statutory responsibilities that DCC has to ensure the conservation of the commons. Wild Justice argued DCC failed to meet these responsibilities, alongside general duties under wildlife laws and regulations.

In a July 2025 High Court hearing, Wild Justice successfully argued that DCC failed to make periodic assessments of whether Dartmoor was becoming overstocked. This contravened section 4 of the Dartmoor Commons Act.

In his judgment, Justice Mould found:

Assessment of the number of animals that may properly be depastured on the commons at any given time necessarily implies both quantitative and qualitative analysis. The question for the Defendant is whether stocking levels exceed the capacity of the commons properly to accommodate them.

In order to address that question, among the matters which the Defendant needs to interrogate are the numbers of livestock which commoners are entitled to depasture on the commons, the numbers that are actually depastured in reliance on rights of common, the areas of common in respect of which those rights are enjoyed and exercised, seasonal variations, and so on.

In 2023, the government published an assessment of Dartmoor commons (the Fursdon Review). It found that Dartmoor was “not in a good state”.

In assessing a number of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) on the commons, the Fursdon Review found that many of them were in unfavourable condition. It also noted that Natural England had identified reducing stock numbers as a way to tackle overgrazing and return these areas to a more favourable condition.

Wild Justice began its legal claim in July 2024, when the group sent a pre-action protocol to DCC. It detailed alleged issues with DCC’s management of the commons, citing the Fursdon Review.

From DCC’s response it was clear that it had not taken any steps to control livestock. This led to Wild Justice filing a judicial review challenge in August 2024.

In February 2025, the challenge got the green light to proceed to the High Court, with two further grounds gaining permission in April.

Bob Elliot, CEO of Wild Justice, said:

This judgment shows that the Dartmoor Commoners’ Council failed to do the most basic of work needed in order to understand how many animals the Dartmoor Commons can sustain. When such an important landscape is already in very poor ecological condition, this simply isn’t good enough.

The Dartmoor Commoners’ Council must now carry out the proper assessment required by law and ensure that Dartmoor is managed in a way that allows nature to recover. We will be scrutinising that assessment and, importantly, how DCC acts upon it in areas where overgrazing is apparent.

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Senior environmental solicitor Carol Day, of Leigh Day, was a member of the legal team representing Wild Justice. She said:

Wild Justice is obviously pleased that the judge has found that Dartmoor Commoners’ Council has failed in its statutory duty to properly assess the number of livestock grazing on Dartmoor. It has been clear for years that overgrazing is one of the major issues leading to the ecological decline of Dartmoor’s important wildlife habitats.

Wild Justice ‘s legal challenge means the DCC must now comply with its minimum legal duties as the regulator of grazing levels on the commons. The DCC must now urgently carry out a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the number of livestock on the commons so that it can consider whether it must take steps to reduce that number.

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A small set of women in the House of Lords are trying to end access to abortion telemedicine. More commonly known as the ‘pills by post’ scheme introduced during Covid-19 to ensure continued safe access to pregnancy terminations via remote consultations. It was made permanent in March 2022.

MPs tabled a similar proposal to end telemedicine access in summer 2025—however, it was quickly voted down. This time around, Tory peer Philippa Stroud tabled the motion as an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill. This circumvents the Commons, who have already voted the bill through.

Opponents of bodily autonomy

The version of the bill which passed through the Commons effectively decriminalises abortion altogether. As such, Stroud’s motion is an extreme reversal of the bill’s intent, subverting it into an attack on reproductive rights.

Stroud is backed by Kwisher Falkner, former head of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and Sharon Davies, an ex-swimmer.

It’s notable that all three women are also known for their transphobia. Stroud founded a night shelter/church which attempted to ‘cure’ transsexuality and homosexuality by driving out demons. However, she denies this characterisation—in spite of victims’ testimonies.

Under Falkner’s leadership, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) took a hard pivot from a trans-positive stance to extreme hostility. Likewise, Davies threatened to sue amateur womens’ sporting bodies that allowed trans people to participate. Davies is also a vocal critic of drag, even complaining when the BBC ran a performer’s obituary.

These points are worth bearing in mind, given that transphobes often claim to be ‘defending women’. However, as this attack on abortion rights demonstrates, it’s never just about trans people. Eventually, they also turn out to be opponents of bodily autonomy itself—whether that be sexuality, gender, or abortion rights.

Anti-choice is anti-choice

In an article on the anti-choice motion, the Telegraph stated that critics claim the postal scheme is “open to abuse”. However, the article could not cite even one case of coercive abortion in telemedicine’s four-year history.

Davies describes herself as pro-choice, although that apparently doesn’t extend to choices she doesn’t want people to make. She stated in the Telegraph that:

being pro-choice does not excuse jeopardising safety or allowing a ‘Wild West’ of abortion pills, where pills can too easily fall into the hands of abusers coercing abortions, traffickers covering up abuse or women whose pregnancies are approaching full term.

The practical effect of the scheme is that women at any stage of pregnancy can get hold of abortion pills by misleading abortion providers on the phone about their gestation, either mistakenly or deliberately as in the case of Carla Foster, who was sent abortion pills by BPAS after pretending to be seven weeks pregnant when actually around 33 weeks.

Reintroducing in-person medical consultations for women seeking abortions is not about reducing access to abortion but ensuring safeguarding and best practice.

Note the turn in Davies’ language here. She starts by talking about coercion, and then quickly pivots to ‘concerns’ about people procuring the pills of their own volition. Again, this is not about safeguarding pregnant people; it’s an attack on bodily autonomy.

Lords’ debate

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service itself has stated that people should not have to visit a clinic for abortion pills. Research has demonstrated the safety of the process from a medical standpoint.

Likewise, vulnerable individuals in abusive relationships can also talk to a professional more easily over the phone than by visiting a clinic in person.

Tomorrow, 18 March, the House of Lords will debate the Crime and Policing Bill. In June 2025, the amendment to decriminalise abortion passed in the Commons with a massive 379 votes in favour, versus just 137 against.

As such, the Lords now have the opportunity to strike a historic blow in favour of reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. Alternatively, they can follow in Stroud’s footsteps, and impose further unnecessary limits to abortion access.

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Britain’s MI5 must pay compensation to a woman coercively controlled, abused, and attacked with a machete by a neo-Nazi agent it employed. The agent also had fantasies about eating children. And the victim has warned that MI5 – which was found to have lied repeatedly – was still protecting the abuser.

In a story that gets worse with each sentence the sentence, the BBC reported:

Her legal claim followed a BBC investigation four years ago, which showed that the man, known publicly as Agent X, was a neo-Nazi misogynist who used his security service role as a tool of abuse.

The BBC found he used his status to abuse his partner, known by the alias Beth, before he moved abroad, while under police investigation, to continue intelligence work.

They added:

After subsequently failing in court to discredit Beth, MI5 recently offered to pay compensation to settle her claim. She has now accepted the offer.

Beth’s solicitor Kate Ellis – who also works for the Centre for Women’s Justice – said:

To have this kind of outcome and to win actually against a body like MI5 who are so shrouded in secrecy and in a sense so powerful, is a huge achievement for Beth.

MI5, which was found to have lied repeatedly, had also been forced to own up.

MI5 forced to apologise

The head of MI5 has also been forced to apologise:

We relied on incorrect evidence and our record keeping fell well short of the standard of professionalism that we expect, and to which Beth was entitled. We profoundly regret that our mistakes prolonged the litigation and caused additional suffering for Beth.

MI5 has settled Beth’s claim and we have apologised to Beth directly.

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Prompted in part by Beth’s case, MI5 has embarked on a programme of work to reinforce the highest standards of record keeping and information management.

The MI5 chief was accused of trying to get the head of the BBC, Tim Davie, to quash the story in 2021:

In 2021, Sir Ken wrongly claimed the planned story was “inaccurate” when he personally contacted his BBC counterpart Tim Davie in a failed effort to undermine the reporting.

Fantasised about eating children

Details about the man accused are frankly mind boggling:

Evidence showed the MI5 spy, a foreign national, was a right-wing extremist with a violent past. He also engaged in fantasies about eating children.

He had abused a previous partner abroad, before taking on his MI5 role, including threatening to kill her and her child.

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Beth met the agent on a dating site. He soon became controlling and physically and sexually abusive:

One video showed Agent X threatening to kill her and attacking her with a machete.

The BBC reported:

MI5 is currently under investigation after the BBC revealed that the security service gave false evidence to three courts while defending its handling of the agent.

In a statement, Beth said the compensation:

can never do anything to repair what I went through at the hands of X.

I’d pay that money so as not to have to experience even a minute of what I had to experience of the worst of his abuse.

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She warned that

despite this apology, the MI5 are still protecting this violent misogynistic predator.

The British state has again been caught not only protecting abusers, but lying in order to derail investigations and protect their man. This is nothing new. The Canary has reported extensively on abuse by state agents. Victims like Beth deserve justice – and proverbial heads need to roll over this and many other cases of this nature.

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Shoshana Strook has been found dead at her home in Israel on Sunday 15 March 2026. The Daily Sabah reported that Strook was found:

under circumstances that remain unclear, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Police have launched an investigation into the death, though officials have not publicly disclosed details about the cause.

Israel minister accused of abuse

Strook accused her government minister mother, along with her father and brother, of raping her for years as a child. She had hired lawyers to pursue justice only a few days before her death. In April 2025 Strook, the daughter of Israel’s far-right settlements minister fled to police and asked them to protect her. She accused both her parents and one of her brothers of raping her as a child, over a period of years, and filming the rapes. Her accusations came as other women testified to Israel’s Knesset about the abuse they suffered from political and religious leaders.

As The Daily Sabah wrote:

Women’s rights organizations in Israel have called for a broader investigation into the circumstances surrounding her death and the allegations she raised before it.

Widespread problem

The issue of child rape among Zionists is not limited to Israelis. The Netanyahu regime is currently ignoring well over 2,000 extradition requests for alleged and convicted paedophiles who fled there from other countries. Others have been convicted in the US, while the Zionist UK Labour party right also has a long record of paedophiles and other sex offenders.

Israeli psychotherapist and trauma expert Dr Anat Gur, head of the Bar-Ilan University trauma therapy program, has said that she believes organised child rape in Israel is widespread:

Organized child rape is one of the most horrific things I’ve encountered. It’s likely much more widespread than we think. It’s happening in places we least expect.

Strook’s death mirrors the long list of suspicious deaths among victims and associates of serial child-rapist and Israeli spy Jeffrey Epstein. These deaths include that of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein’s most well-known victim – who was also found dead after saying she would not. Jean-Luc Brunel, the French ‘modelling agent’ accused of procuring underage girls for Epstein, was found dead of supposed suicide in a French prison in 2022.

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