South African police have launched a manhunt for convicted rapist and murderer Thabo Bester who escaped from a privately-run maximum security prison in the Free State province under bizarre circumstances. Bester, known as the “Facebook rapist,” was found guilty in 2012 of
Mr Brockbanks’s body lay in the bedroom of his flat at Northumbria University until his family reported him missing after not hearing from him for several days. Staff from the 24-year-old’s university raised the alarm and police visited his home and discovered
Italy’s highest court has ordered a retrial for two American citizens who were convicted in the slaying of an Italian police officer during a sting operation gone bad. The Court of Cassation late Wednesday threw out the guilty verdicts against Finnegan Lee
Italy’s highest court on Wednesday was hearing the final appeal of two U.S. citizens convicted in the stabbing death of a police officer during a plainclothes operation in Rome in the summer of 2019. Finnegan Lee Elder, now 23, and Gabriel Natale-Hjorth,
A Dutch court has convicted a man for removing his condom during sex without his partner’s consent, marking a landmark change in how to deal with the act of “stealthing.” “By his actions, the suspect forced the victim to tolerate having unprotected
A Warsaw court on Tuesday convicted a women’s rights activist for helping a victim of domestic violence access abortion pills in Poland, and sentenced her to eight months of community service. The case of Justyna Wydrzyńska has been closely watched by human
Belarus’ authoritarian president on Thursday signed a bill introducing capital punishment for state officials and military personnel convicted of high treason. The amendments to the country’s criminal code endorsed by President Alexander Lukashenko envisage death sentences for officials and servicemen who caused
Two men have been convicted of helping Somali pirates who kidnapped a U.S. journalist for ransom and held him for 2 1/2 years, prosecutors said. Mohamed Tahlil Mohamed and Abdi Yusuf Hassan were convicted by a federal court jury in New York
Two teenagers have been convicted of murdering an innocent 16-year-old in a mistaken identity murder. Rishmeet Singh was stabbed to death in west London while he lay “defenceless on the floor”. Vanushan Balakrishnan and Ilyas Suleiman, both 18, were found guilty of
Throughout Alex Murdaugh’s six-week double homicide trial, many spectators noticed the disgraced lawyer’s remaining son sitting in the courtroom while the grisly details of his mum and younger brother’s demise were dissected. Following his dad’s conviction, twenty-six-year-old Buster Murdaugh was spirited away