Category: Crime and Judiciary

hree people charged with helping a Tennessee man accused of fatally shooting four people are suspected of providing him with shelter, phones and rides as he evaded authorities after the killings, a prosecutor said Thursday. Austin Robert Drummond made a brief court appearance before a judge by video feed Thursday in the rural city of Tiptonville in west...

A man who tried to murder a toddler by stepping in front of a moving train while carrying the boy on his shoulders has been jailed for 10 years. Frederick Danquah took the two-year-old to Garrowhill railway station, in the east end of Glasgow, in July 2023 after he had split from his partner. They...

A pedophile who sexually abused a young girl in her sleep more than 20 years ago has been jailed for eight years. Ricky Morgan, of New Cheltenham Road in Kingswood, Bristol, admitted abusing the girl multiple times over several years during the early 2000s. The abuse was reported to police two decades later. The 61-year-old...

U.N.-backed investigators say they have found significant evidence of “systematic torture” at Myanmar detention centers, where the military government is holding children as young as 2 years old as proxies for their parents. The Southeast Asian nation of about 54 million people has been mired in turmoil since 2021, when democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was overthrown...

In a security breach at the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Keffi, Nasarawa State, 16 inmates escaped in the early hours of Tuesday after overpowering personnel on duty. The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) confirmed the incident, stating that five officers sustained varying degrees of injury while trying to contain the situation, with two currently in...

The Police Command in Ogun has arrested a commercial motorcyclist, Kadir Owolabi, who was allegedly in possession of three human skulls. According to the CSP Omolola Odutola, the command’s spokesperson revealed the suspect was intercepted during a routine stop-and-search of his luggage by mobile police officers which led to the discovery of three human skulls...

 A man accused of faking his death and fleeing to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges faced an alleged victim in court Monday as a jury trial in Utah began. The man known in the U.S. as Nicholas Rossi, whose legal name is Nicholas Alahverdian, is accused of sexually assaulting two women in Utah in 2008....

An illegal immigrant from El Salvador has been sentenced to life without parole for killing an American mother of five – in a case invoked by President Donald Trump to support his border security crackdown. Victor Martinez-Hernandez, 24, was found guilty this year in the rape and murder of Rachel Morin, 37, on a hiking...

The Federal Government is set arraign five men accused of carrying out the deadly June 5, 2022 attack on Saint Francis Catholic Church in Owo, Ondo State. The arraignment, which comes nearly three years after the brutal attack that claimed dozens of lives, is a significant development in the nation’s fight against terrorism. The suspects,...