PC Sharon Beshenivsky’s family watched from court as the last member of the gang responsible for the armed raid that claimed her life was sentenced after almost 20 years. PC Beshenivsky was killed on her daughter’s fourth birthday while interrupting a robbery at family-run Universal Express travel agents in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in November 2005. She and her colleague PC Teresa Milburn, who were both unarmed, were shot at point-blank range by one of the three men who had just carried out the...
Kazakhstan to toughen penalties for domestic violence as killing of Saltanat Nukenova prompts national outcry and shines spotlight on high femicide rates A former Kazakh government minister has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for the torture and murder of his wife in one of the most high-profile cases of domestic violence in Kazakhstan’s history.Kuandyk Bishimbayev, 44, was shown in surveillance footage repeatedly beating Saltanat Nukenova, 31, after they quarrelled in a restaurant he...
Convicted rapist Brian Green is the subject of an ongoing manhunt after he failed to turn up to his sentencing. The fugitive was tried in abstensia and sentenced to 22 years in prison after being found guilty of five counts of rape at Leeds Crown Court in March 2024. Four of the counts related to multiple incidences of rape - of which there were at least five for each. After an adjournment, Green still failed to turn up for his sentencing on Wednesday May 1, and is presumed to be on the run. ...
An Ohio teen who was convicted of shooting and killing a man in 2016 when he was 17 years old and tried as an adult had his case heard by the Ohio Supreme Court on the basis that the charges in the adult court could not stand.
The man accused of shooting and killing two people in Lansing faced a judge Thursday morning. Dennis Whaley, 51, faces two counts of open murder and four firearms charges and is being held without bond for the shooting deaths of Jason McKenzie, 50 and Christine Cambric, 53.
Wednesday, the Crown conducted its cross-examination of Eric Charles Favel, who is charged with second-degree murder.
Ahmed Alid, 45, stabbed Terence Carney, 70, and tried to kill another man in attacks described as terrorismA terrorist who murdered a pensioner in Hartlepool town centre as “revenge” for “the people of Gaza” has been jailed for 45 years.Ahmed Alid, 45, an asylum seeker from Morocco, stabbed 70-year-old Terence Carney, a complete stranger he encountered on the street, on 15 October. Continue reading
Franklin Mensah, 29, a driver, has appeared before the Ashaiman District Court, for allegedly murdering the three-and-a-half-year-old daughter of his girlfriend.
His brother was found guilty of murder this week
On Friday, a federal appeals court panel upheld right-wing podcaster and Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s conviction for contempt of Congress. Bannon was convicted in October 2022 on two charges of criminal contempt of Congress—Willful Failure to Appear for Testimony and Willful Failure to Provide Records. Both of these charges resulted from Bannon’s refusal to obey a subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. Bannon was sentenced to four months in federal prison. Since then, Bannon has...
The chief suspect in the killings of two Australian brothers in Mexico is expected to be charged with their murder. Callum Robinson, 33, and his brother Jake, 30, were travelling with their American friend Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, in the Mexican state of Baja California when they failed to check into their accommodation. Their bodies […]
Benlord Ababio, the main suspect in the recent murder of a soldier at Kasoa during a land dispute, has reportedly been remanded by the Achimota District Court.