The retired British miner could be freed within weeks after a Cypriot judge sentenced him to two years in prison for the manslaughter of his seriously ill wife.
A Cyprus court on Friday found a British man who killed his ailing wife in their home guilty of manslaughter, saying that the prosecution didn’t prove beyond reasonable doubt that the 76-year-old man committed premeditated murder. In a unanimous decision, the three-judge
Dorset Police has so far released only limited information in its investigation into the deaths of two children in Bournemouth. A 17-year-old boy and girl, 12, died after being pulled from the sea around the resort town’s famous pier. A man aged
Alun Titford and Sarah Lloyd-Jones, who were convicted of the gross negligence manslaughter of their morbidly obese daughter Kaylea Titford, have had their jail sentences increased at the Court of Appeal to 10 years and eight years respectively. Kaylea, 16, was found in conditions described as
Lawyers have asked a judge to drop an involuntary manslaughter charge against the weapons supervisor on the film set where Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer. The motion argues prosecutors in Santa Fe, New Mexico, did not have the authority to bring
Two Metropolitan Police officers are the subjects of a criminal investigation after the death of a man who fell from the balcony of a flat after being tasered. Both officers are reportedly being investigated for gross negligence manslaughter by the Independent Office for
Manhattan prosecutors said on Thursday (May 11) that they will bring criminal charges against a man who used a fatal chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train. The death stirred outrage and debates about the response to
The driver of an SUV that killed eight people when it slammed into a bus stop in Brownsville, Texas, has been charged with manslaughter, police said Monday as investigators tried to determine if the crash was intentional. Authorities believe driver George Alvarez,
Jasmine Hartin, the estranged partner of Lord Ashcroft’s son Andrew, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting of a Belizean police chief, claiming she wants the victim’s family “to have peace” after his “accidental” shooting. Hartin broke down in tears on
A French court has acquitted Airbus and Air France of manslaughter charges over the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris, which killed 228 passengers. The conclusion of the trial, which has been fraught with tension since it began in