A popular Nigerian transgender woman was on Friday jailed for six months after a local court convicted her of throwing the local currency into the air, a practice known as spraying, a rare conviction that was criticized by many in the West
Vybz Kartel née Adija Palmer has served 12 and a half years of a life sentence for a 2011 murder (Image: Getty) Jamaican dancehall artist Vybz Kartel née Adija Palmer’s conviction for the 2011 murder of Clive “Lizard” Williams has been overturned
A Spanish court has agreed to release Dani Alves on bail if the former Barcelona defender pays £854,000 (€1million) and hands in two passports. Alves was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison in Barcelona last month after being found guilty of rape.
Kathleen Crane, 68, was one of more than 700 sentenced between 1999 and 2015 after defective Fujitsu software suggested money was missing from their branches. The mother of two said her 14-year ordeal, in which she “suffered in silence”, was “horrible” after
A former subpostmistress who was convicted of fraud based on evidence from the Post Office’s faulty Horizon IT system has had her conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Kathleen Crane was handed a 12-month community order and ordered to repay more
Former postmaster Steve Marston says an IT system that was in place before Horizon led to him being convicted of theft. The 67-year-old was a subpostmaster in Heap Bridge, Manchester, when he was convicted for theft and false accounting offences in 1998
Rape complainants have been warned that using video evidence could harm the chance of seeing their alleged attacker convicted. New research has found there is a 20% reduction in conviction rates if the complainant requests “special measures” in court. Introduced in 2016,
Convicted fraudster Gerald Ronson was made a CBE for his philanthropy and good deeds in the Jewish community. The tycoon, 84, was one of the “Guinness Four” behind a multi-million share-trading scandal at the drinks company in the 1980s. He served a one-year
An Australian court on Tuesday recorded the first conviction under the nation’s foreign interference laws with a jury finding a Vietnamese refugee guilty of covertly working for the Chinese Communist Party. A Victoria state County Court jury convicted Melbourne businessman and local
A Pakistani appeals court on Tuesday suspended the corruption conviction and three-year prison term of Imran Khan in a legal victory for the hugely popular embattled former prime minister, his lawyers and court officials said. Although he will face a retrial in