Category: Crime and Judiciary

The City of Inglewood has agreed to pay $25 million to a 72-year-old man who spent nearly four decades in prison for a crime that he did not commit, making it what “appears to be California’s largest-ever wrongful conviction settlement,” attorneys said. Maurice Hastings was convicted of the 1983 kidnapping and murder of an Inglewood...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials involved in this month’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean that the White House has said were transporting drugs. Petro repudiated the three attacks in his speech at the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly during...

The chief executive of a South Korean lithium battery maker where 23 workers were killed in a fire last year was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday in the toughest ruling over an industrial accident in the country. Park Soon-kwan, CEO of the battery maker Aricell, had been charged under the country’s industrial safety law,...

The crimes against humanity charges against former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte allege his involvement in the killings of at least 76 people while he was president and earlier a southern mayor, the International Criminal Court has revealed. The first charge cites 19 victims killed while Duterte was mayor of Davao City between 2013 and around 2016. The...

A jury in New Zealand on Tuesday found a woman guilty of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for years before they were discovered. The verdict meant the jury at the High Court in Auckland rejected a defense of insanity made by lawyers for Hakyung Lee, who fled to South Korea after the killings before...

63-year-old disabled Nigerian man who has lived in the UK for almost 40 years has won an appeal to stay in the country despite the Home Office wanting to deport him. Anthony Olubunmi George who entered UK at the age of 24 in 1986, has not left since and has no criminal convictions. He had...

A 34-year-old United Kingdom-based Nigerian, Olamide Shanu, has been extradited from the United Kingdom to the United States to face federal charges for his alleged role in a cyber-fraud scheme that defrauded victims of at least $2 million. The US Department of Justice disclosed in a statement on its website on Thursday that 34-year-old Shanu...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested a businesswoman, Okolonkwo Ebere Theresa, after she was caught attempting to smuggle methamphetamine concealed in her specially crafted bum pads. at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. According to a statement issued on Sunday, September 21, 2025, by NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the...

A notorious bandit leader, Kachalla Ummaru, has publicly issued a warning to the Nigerian Army and the government against relying solely on force in tackling insecurity, saying that lethal operations will only fuel more recruitment and violence, saying Ummaru led this out over the weekend during peace talks between some bandit groups and community leaders in Matazu...

The Nigerian military, 6 Division, has made a significant breakthrough in its fight against oil theft and pipeline vandalism, arresting 17 suspects and destroying nine illegal refineries in a week-long operation in the Niger Delta region. The operation, codenamed Operation Delta Safe, was carried out between September 15 and 21. The Army also said over...