England’s first convicted cyber-flasher was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison. Nicholas Hawkes, 39, a convicted sex offender who sent unsolicited photos of his genitals to a girl and a woman, was the first person in England and Wales convicted
NEW YORK (AP) — Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted Friday in New York of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers and used his military and national police force to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities’ relentless crackdown on dissent, the country’s leading human rights group said Monday. The Viasna human rights center said that
The murder conviction of a brain-damaged youth for shooting dead a shopkeeper in 1990 should be quashed because his vulnerabilities meant he could not properly defend himself, a court has been told. Rose Slowe KC told the Court of Appeal that Oliver
A German far-right extremist already serving a life sentence following an attempt to attack a synagogue in 2019 was convicted Tuesday of hostage-taking for his actions in a jailbreak attempt. Stephan Balliet, 32, was sentenced to seven years in prison, German news
A convicted murderer jailed for shooting dead a shopkeeper in 1990 could be cleared this week in what would be the longest-ever miscarriage of justice in British history. Oliver Campbell, who has severe learning disabilities, spent 11 years inside after a jury
Ibrahima Bah, a migrant from Senegal, has been found guilty of manslaughter after attempting to pilot an overcrowded inflatable dingy across the English Channel to the U.K. The dingy carried at least 43 migrants from France to the U.K. and resulted in
A South Korean court on Wednesday convicted three former police officers of destroying internal files and other evidence in an attempted cover-up after a Halloween crowd crush that killed nearly 160 people in the capital, Seoul, in 2022. They were the first
A 39-year-old man from Essex is the first person in England or Wales to be convicted of cyber-flashing – a new offence which is the act of sending unsolicited pictures of a person’s genitals. It became a criminal act on January 31
The 16-year-old killers of transgender teen Brianna Ghey have been publicly identified as Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe. Ghey was stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in broad daylight after being lured to a park in Warrington on Feb. 11, 2023.