Barry Bennell was in ‘significant pain’ when he died in prison last September while serving a 34-year sentence, a coroner has ruled. The disgraced former football coach, who had been convicted of several child sex offences, was found dead by a prison
Former Yoozoo Games executive, Xu Yao, was sentenced to death on Friday for poisoning the company’s founder, Lin Qi, in December 2020. The poisoning was due to a dispute over the management of the business, according to the Shanghai First Intermediate People’s
SAO PAULO (AP) — Former soccer star Robinho turned himself in Thursday to start serving a nine-year prison sentence in his native Brazil more than 10 years after he was first accused of raping a woman in Italy. The 40-year-old Robinho left
A Catholic activist in Belarus was handed a three-year prison sentence Friday on charges that Western diplomats have denounced as politically driven, the latest move in the authorities’ sweeping crackdown on the country’s civil society. Uladzislau Beladzed, 33, who taught the catechism
One of the killers who murdered teenager Brianna Ghey has lodged an appeal against his life sentence for murder. Eddie Ratcliffe was 15 when he and Scarlett Jenkinson lured Brianna to Linear Park in Culcheth, near Warrington, where she was stabbed 28
Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso was sent to his native country Tuesday after serving a drug trafficking sentence in the United States and being denied several requests to be sent to Italy, where he also has citizenship. Mancuso arrived in Bogota’s El Dorado
A court in Uzbekistan sentenced 23 people to prison terms on Monday over the deaths of 68 children linked to contaminated cough syrups produced by India’s Marion Biotech, following a six-month-long trial. The Central Asian nation had previously reported 65 deaths linked
Lucy Letby’s lawyers will challenge her sentence at the Court of Appeal in a matter of weeks. The jailed nurse’s bid to appeal her whole life order sentence will be heard in court on April 25, a spokesperson for the judiciary has confirmed.
Nottingham triple killer Valdo Calocane’s sentence to an indefinite hospital order will be referred to the Court of Appeal for being “unduly lenient”. Calocane was handed the sentence for killing three people in the UK city last year. Calocane stabbed to death
Germany’s Cabinet has approved plans to reduce the minimum sentence for spreading child sexual abuse images. The current law penalizes dissemination of such content with a prison sentence of one to 10 years. The proposed legislation will reduce the minimum sentence to