Category: Crime and Judiciary

93-year-old Lawrence Hecker has been sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for raping a teenage boy years back.Hecker who was a former catholic priest had pleaded guilty to charges including first-degree rape and aggravated kidnapping moments before jury selection was scheduled to begin in his trial this monthThe former priest sentence comes as the...

OSOGBO- 17/12/2024 Governor Ademola Adeleke has directed immediate investigation and pardoning action on the case of a young man reportedly sentenced to death by hanging in Osun state for stealing fowl. In a statement on Tuesday evening, the Governor ordered the Attorney General to intervene in the matter and ensure the young man is listed...

“We don’t hate Nigerian Police enough. In 2021, my brother-in-law went missing. We went to the police station to report the matter and they demanded 500k from us to ‘open the case’.“We didn’t have a choice but to pay the money cos we needed to find him. He was less than a year into marriage...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office on Tuesday announced that Luigi Mangione was indicted on first-degree murder and other charges in the ambush killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this month.The indictment on first-murder degree in furtherance of terrorism elevates the case against Mangione in Thompson’s killing outside a Manhattan hotel on Dec. 4.The New York state Supreme...

Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja warned anyone who violate Nigeria law will be punished accordingly.The Police PRO stated this in a post on his verified X account, adding further that the law does not give room for sentimentality especially when the police have to carry out their assigned duties.According to...

A San Francisco jury on Tuesday found a tech consultant guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee, which carries a sentence of 16 years to life, rejecting the defendant’s claim that he had acted in self-defense.Jurors took seven days to deliver their verdict against Nima Momeni in the...

A Filipino woman who spent years on death row in Indonesia for drug trafficking, and who was nearly executed by firing squad in 2015, said Wednesday she’s happy to be back in the Philippines but is asking its president to set her free.Mary Jane Veloso spent almost 15 years in prison but won a last-minute reprieve that...

A 15-year-old student of Abundant Life Christian School identified as Natalie Rupnow, killed a teacher and another teenager with a handgun in Wisconsin.Madison Police chief Shon Barnes at a press conference on Monday night revealed that the female student also wounded six others, including two students who were in critical condition.A teacher and three students...

Bashar al-Assad, ousted Syrian dictator planned to keep fighting rebel forces in the country before Russia evacuated him, according to a statement attributed to him released Monday.Assad on his telegram account stated: “My departure from Syria was neither planned nor did it occur during the final hours of the battles.”He disclosed that he remained in Damascus...

Ukraine’s security service claimed responsibility Tuesday for killing the head of Russia’s chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov.The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was behind the detonation of an explosive device planted in a scooter next to the entrance of an apartment building in Moscow, according to a Ukrainian source briefed on...