…ion. Ghazala Javed and her father were killed when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them late on Monday Singers and dancers were particularly targeted by insurgents when they overran the area in 2007. Ghazala Javed at one point was also forced to stop singing because of threats. The singer, who was in her twenties, later married a businessman but they are thought to have divorced. Correspond…
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2008: Judge indicts Amanda Knox and Raffaelle Sollecito on murder and sexual assault charges. Rudy Guede, who was granted a fast-track trial, is convicted of murder and sexual assault and sentenced to 30 years in prison. January 16, 2009: Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito opens in Perugia. June 12, 2009: Amanda Knox takes stand; tells court she was shocked by Meredith’s death, offe…
juveniles because they were under 18 at the time of the attack, which happened in south-east London in April 1993. Police say the investigation could be reopened if new evidence emerges. Gary Dobson, 36, and David Norris, 35, can expect to receive sentences considerably shorter than would an adult convicted of the same crime under today’s laws. Reports say they could serve minimum prison te…
…tims, Robert McDonald said. Robert McDonald said: “We got to interview these [two] men and see what they say about this whole thing.” The affidavit refers to Justin Bieber as “Victim 3″ or “J.B.” who was the “ultimate target.” Robert McDonald told CNN that J.B. refers to Justin Bieber. A representative for 18-year-old Justin Bieber said: “We ta…
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…find Patrick A. Evans guilty. Attorney Christopher LaBruzzo said: “Ladies and gentlemen, it is rare in cases in America where a murder is actually captured on a 911 call.” On the night of 20 December, 2008, someone called 911 from Elizabeth Evans’ Gulfport condominium but did not hang up. Attorney Christopher LaBruzzo said Patrick A. Evans arrived at the condominium with a handg…
…y lecturer from Hollywood, US, faces 50 years in jail for trying to murder her husband Gary Trogdon after finding his child porn State attorney Richard Fritz said Joanna Findlay now faces a potential 30 years in jail for attempted second degree murder, and potentially another 20 years on top for the firearms offence. Richard Fritz said: “The jury found that she tried to murder him before he…
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…metery just two miles from her home Investigators are currently giving no details about how she was murdered and no suspects have been named. Karen Swift, 44, was last seen outside her home on October 30 at 1:30 a.m. after returning from a Halloween party. Twenty days before her disappearance, Karen Swift had filed for divorce from her husband David, citing irreconcilable differences, myfoxmemphis…
sentence. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was tried separately from five other men accused of the 2006 murder, which shocked human rights campaigners. The court also ordered Lt. Col. Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov to pay 3 million rubles ($97,500) in compensation to Anna Politkovskaya’s children. Anna Politkovskaya’s family had demanded 10 million rubles. After the verdict, Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was immediately…
brawl that was witnessed by other students. Dylan Nuno died after being stabbed 12 times in the chest and abdomen. One of the blows pierced the teenager’s heart. In her decision, signed December 30, 2011, Judge Lauren Brodie said Jorge Saavedra had “no duty to retreat” and was “legally entitled to meet force with force, even deadly force”. She stated: “The defendant was in a place where he h…
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Turkish homeless man identified as “Ziya T” has confessed to fatally bludgeoning Staten Island mother Sarai Sierra in Istanbul. The man has said his victim fought for her life for approximately 30 minutes before she went limp and he fled the scene. Ziya T, a trash collector who lives in Istanbul was detained by police as he tried to flee across the border to Syria, after spending weeks on the run…
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Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, has been given a suspended death sentence for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood. Gu Kailai did not contest charges at her one-day trial that she poisoned Neil Heywood in November 2011. Suspended death sentences are usually commuted to life imprisonment in China. Bo Xilai, the former communist party chief in Chongqing, was once…
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has received phone calls and emails from different people claiming to be relatives of Whitney Houston and demanding murder investigation in singer’s death. According to TMZ, the calls and emails were made by several different people, some claiming to be relatives of Whitney Houston and some relatives of Bobby Brown. The calls and emails have a common…
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…y day.” She said Eva Rausing didn’t stay very long because she returned to her husband. “I last spoke to my daughter at Christmas. I don’t text and I don’t know how to email. The last we heard was May 3 when she texted my husband. “She said something about them getting ready to go back to California. Things were starting to take a more positive turn. We had high hopes.” Wearing a navy blue trouser…
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since March 2010 – a decision which sparked protests among pupils who demanded their imprisonment. Magistrate Brian Nemavhidi revoked their bail and remanded them in custody until sentencing on 30 November. The court room in Soweto, the main black township in Johannesburg, was packed and there were emotional scenes when the verdict was given. One of the parents fainted and had to be carried…
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Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito face a retrial over the 2007 killing of Briton student Meredith Kercher, Italy’s highest court has ordered. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent four years in jail in Italy for murder but were freed on appeal in October 2011, largely on the grounds DNA evidence was flawed. Prosecutors appealed and the Court of Cassation overturned…
avaris Crittenton, a former Georgia Tech guard, was a first-round draft pick of the Lakers in 2007 and has also played for the Washington Wizards and Memphis Grizzlies. The sportsman was suspended for 38 games during the 2009-10 season for pulling a gun in the Wizards’ locker room. While nursing an injury, Javaris Crittenton and Gilbert Arenas were involved in a dispute stemming from a card…
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South African Paralympic Oscar Pistorius appears to be back at the track for the first time since he was charged with murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day this year. Oscar Pistorius, 26, is pictured with his hands on his hips wearing his blades as he walks across a running track as his agent said his return to training was imminent. The double amputee Olympian is keen to…
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South African prosecutors have decided to provisionally drop murder charges against 270 miners at Lonmin Marikana platinum mine whose colleagues were shot dead by police. The charges cannot be dismissed formally until the end of the inquiry, but prosecutors said all detained miners would be freed. Local authorities used a controversial apartheid-era law to accuse the miners of provoking police to…
it knowing full well that the outcome is very important.” Since returning to Seattle in the US, Amanda Knox has kept a low profile although she is due to given an interview to ABC television on April 30 to coincide with the release of a book about her four years in an Italian jail. Raffaele Sollecito has also written a book and has already given an interview on Italian TV about the case where he…
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Newly released FBI files have revealed that hip hop super-group The Wu Tang Clan was involved in carjackings, murders, drug dealing and money laundering. The FBI’s dossier on the group’s founding member, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB) has been released in response to a Freedom of information request. ODB, aka Russell Jones, died of an accidental drug overdose in 2004, after consuming a…
…s, weapons and poisoning techniques: from left, Mohammed Rizwan, Bahader Ali, Ifran Nasser, Rahin Ahmed, Ifran Khalid and Ashik Ali The six defendants, who are all from Birmingham and aged from 25 to 32, were arrested a week ago by the West Midlands police counter-terrorism unit. The six men, each wearing black jumpers and jogging bottoms, spoke only to confirm their names, ages and addresses at…
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…s were fired, and police believe a gun recovered at the scene was the one used in the killings. Around the neighbourhood, stunned residents were trying to get a handle on what had happened. Has Jones, 30, said he heard the gunfire: “I heard four shots and then it stopped, and then I heard screaming and then three more shots.” Has Jones, who lives about 50ft from the house where the shooting took p…
…iss institute said it had received permission from Suha Arafat and the Palestinian authorities to travel to Ramallah to analyze his remains. Yasser Arafat led the Palestine Liberation Organisation for 35 years and became the first president of the Palestinian Authority in 1996. He fell violently ill in October 2004 and died two weeks later, at the age of 75, in a French military hospital. French d…
The trial of Bo Xilai’s wife, Gu Kailai, for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has ended in the Chinese city of Hefei, after one day. A court official told reporters Gu Kailai had not contested the charge that she killed Neil Heywood by poisoning in 2011. The date of the verdict would be announced later, the official said. Gu Kailai is the wife of former high-flying politician Bo Xil…
Miners arrested at Lonmin Marikana mine in South Africa will be charged later with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police, an official has said. A prosecuting authority spokesman said that 270 workers would be tried under the “common purpose” doctrine. They were in the crowd which confronted the police, who opened fire, sparking a national outcry. Police have not been charged beca…
