Category: Crime and Judiciary

A man who raped two women who he brought to the UK from Uganda has been jailed. Charles Isabirye promised the women work and a place to live when he brought them into the country, but neither ever transpired, Leicestershire Police said. He denied the offences during his trial at Leicester Crown Court and claimed...

Nigerian Army’s troops said to have apprehend a notorious bandit leader, Idris Idris (alias Babawo Badoo), with 37 other suspects in a series of operations spanning the past three days. In a statement on its social media handle on Thursday, also said own troops during the coordinated operations across the country rescued 15 kidnap victims,...

 A Lebanese pop star turned Islamist militant who surrendered this month after 12 years on the run appeared in Beirut court Tuesday for the first time. Fadel Shaker had been hiding out in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh since bloody street clashes erupted between Sunni Muslim militants and the Lebanese army in June 2013 in...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will have two police officers stationed in nearby cells while he is in prison to ensure he comes to no harm, France’s interior minister said on Wednesday. Sarkozy on Tuesday began a five-year sentence after being convicted of conspiring to raise campaign funds from Libya, arriving at La Sante prison in Paris — a...

A Chinese national who United States authorities accuse of trafficking large quantities of cocaine and fentanyl into the U.S. before being arrested and then escaping custody in Mexico was recaptured in Cuba, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Zhi Dong Zhang, alias “Brother Wang,” was indicted in federal court in Atlanta in 2022 on drug trafficking and...

The Louvre reopened Wednesday morning for the first time since the brazen heist of France’s crown jewels. Police are still hunting the four thieves who made off with eight priceless pieces from the museum’s Apollo Room in a daylight robbery that took just four minutes. Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed in a television interview Tuesday that the stolen...

Indonesian authorities have announced plans to repatriate a British grandmother who has spent years on death row for drug trafficking. The woman, whose case drew international outrage and human rights appeals, is finally set to return home following a bilateral agreement between the UK and Indonesia. Indonesia signed an agreement on Tuesday to repatriate two...

A 55-year-old Palestinian woman has been taken to hospital after being clubbed over the head by a masked Jewish settler as she was picking olives. The unprovoked attack, which took place on Sunday morning in the Palestinian village of Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank, was captured on video by US journalist Jasper Nathaniel....

A court in Slovakia on Tuesday convicted the man in last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison. The shooting and the trial have shaken this small, European Union and NATO-member country where Fico has long been a divisive figure, criticized for straying from Slovakia’s...