Category: Crime and Judiciary

A teenage boy was the victim of a brutal gang rape during the annual Moulay Abdellah Amghar festival in El Jadida province.  The child, referred to as W.B., is a 13-year-old boy who lost his father and whose mother suffers from a serious mental illness. He attended the festival accompanied by a group of young...

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province on Tuesday after being convicted of having same-sex relations. The punishment, which took place in a public park in the provincial capital, Banda Aceh, saw the men each receive 76 lashes from a rattan stick under the province’s strict Islamic Sharia law. Gay sex is...

A Pakistani asylum seeker has appeared in court after being accused of repeatedly raping an eight-year-old girl. It is alleged that Kamran Khan, 43, raped the child twice between September 2024 and July 2025 before forcing her to watch a third person engage in sexual activity. He made the eight-year-old make him ejaculate and also...

Typhoon Kajiki killed at least three people and injured 10 others in Vietnam, authorities said Tuesday as they warned that heavy rains could cause flooding and landslides. The storm damaged nearly 7,000 homes, inundated 28,800 hectares of rice plantings and felled 18,000 trees, the government said in a statement. It also brought down 331 electricity poles, causing...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 55-year-old drug kingpin, Mohammed Ali Abubakar, alias Bello Karama and five members of his syndicate responsible for framing three innocent Nigerians who are currently being held in Saudi Arabia. According to the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the mastermind, Mohammed Ali Abubakar...

SP Benjamin Hundeyin: “At about 8:40pm on August 21, 2025, Umar Biliaminu was caught while carting away barbed wire on a perimeter fence in Iju area of Lagos State. “He injured one of the people trying to apprehend him with a scissors. This prompted mob action on him. “Patrol officers from Iju Police Division raced...

The community of Maubane, a village located near Hammanskraal in the Gauteng province of South Africa was in shock after a young woman, identified as Kgaogelo Nnonu, was allegedly stabbed to death by her boyfriend outside Dubai Tarven on Thursday morning. According to reports, the 26-year-old suspect stabbed the deceased multiple times before fleeing the scene...

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, popularly known as the Task Force, has arrested 32 suspected drug dealers. The raid, which commenced around 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 20, 2025 targeted known black spots and criminal hideouts in Agidingbi and Ikeja GRA. The state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab,...

Operatives of the Rivers State Police Command have arrested 23-year-old Kingsley Chinamezu for the brutal murder of his 44-year-old girlfriend, Miss Confidence Sunny, in Etche Local Government Area of the state. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Grace Iringe-Koko, made this known in a statement in Port Harcourt on Wednesday, 20 August, 2025. Iringe-Koko said...

 A Virginia man convicted of shooting a New Jersey pastor to death outside her home in 2023 was sentenced Monday to life in prison. Rashid Ali Bynum, 31, of Portsmouth, Virginia, appeared in a county courtroom in New Brunswick, New Jersey, that was filled with relatives and friends of the victim, Eunice Dwumfour. His lawyer, Michael Ashley,...