Category: Crime and Judiciary

In the cold formality of a northern Virginia courtroom, Brendan Banfield testified on Thursday that prosecutors got it wrong: He did not fatally stab his wife in 2023, but instead shot the man who did. The former IRS law enforcement officer-turned-defendant in an aggravated murder trial continued his testimony about what happened the day his...

A London bus driver who chased a thief and punched him unconscious has been sacked, following a tribunal. Mark Hehir, who told the hearing he was seen as a “hero” by the public, was driving the 206 bus for Metroline, which runs between Wembley and Maida Vale in north-west London, when a man stole a...

A federal judge gave a man would-be assassin the maximum 15 years in prison Wednesday for plotting to kill an Iranian American writer on behalf of Tehran after hearing the woman who was targeted describe multiple attempts on her life as threats against all Americans. Judge Lewis J. Liman said Carlisle Rivera’s written conversations as...

China executed 11 members of a Myanmar-based family crime syndicate that killed 14 Chinese citizens and ran scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said. The Wenzhou city Intermediate People’s Court announced the execution in a statement Thursday morning. It sentenced the 11 people to death in September. They included Ming Guoping...

The former Illinois sheriff’s deputy convicted of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 to request help, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.Sean Grayson, 31, was convicted in October. Grayson, who is white, could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison but also is...

The Lagos State Police Command has apprehended Kosiso Ogumbo, who is accused of sending bomb threat messages to two schools in the Ikeja Government Reserved Area, GRA, Lagos, last week. Additionally, they have dismantled a notorious gang known as “one-chance,” which has been operating throughout the state, resulting in the arrest of 21 suspects in...

A 55-year-old man identified as Anthony J. Kazmierczak on Tuesday as a public speaking sprayed Substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minneapolis Town Hall. The incident happened around 7 p.m. at Omar’s first in-person town hall of the year in North Minneapolis, where she criticized Noem over recent ICE operations, including raids and a fatal...

The wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption Wednesday, as her husband awaits a verdict on a high-stakes rebellion charge that could result in the death penalty or life imprisonment. The presidential couple, who have been jailed separately for months, suffered a spectacular fall...

A Texas man who at one time escaped from custody and was on the run for three days after being sentenced to death for fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend nearly 27 years ago was scheduled on Wednesday to be the first person executed in the U.S. this year. Charles Victor Thompson was...

Over a year ago, France was shaken by a shocking case in which dozens of men were accused of raping a drugged woman, Gisèle Pelicot, with the help of her husband. The country is still grappling with the prevalence of drug-facilitated sexual assault as a former senator goes on trial, accused of slipping MDMA into...