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Four individuals have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2019 drive-by shooting of engineer Oscar Hlatshwayo in Ladysmith, South Africa. The convictions, secured by the South African Police Service's (SAPS) Political Killings Task Team, were handed down in the Madadeni High Court. Hlatshwayo, an Executive Director in
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Connor Gordon A convicted gangland murderer who was already serving a life sentence for murder has been caught with a mobile phone in prison. Jordan Owen, 31, was found with the iPhone at HMP Low Moss on February 10 2025. Owen is serving a life sentence for the underworld murder
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A Tamale High Court, presided over by Charles Acheampong, has sentenced Salifu Nko-nya, a 20-year-old computer science student, to life imprisonment for murdering his male colleague, Mohammed Zakiu Wunpini, a 19-year-old pharmacy student. The incident occurred in September 2024, sending shockwaves through the University for Development Studies (UDS) community. Salifu
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The victims and their families of a mass shooting at a grocery store in Arkansas, in which four people were killed and 11 others were injured, spoke out about the trauma and pain they have endured since the shooting on June 21, 2024. The perpetrator, Travis Posey, was sentenced to
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The High Court in Bangladesh has granted bail to Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the high-profile murder case of blogger and writer Avijit Roy. The grant of bail comes after Farabi's appeal against the trial court's verdict in 2021 was accepted
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A 33-year-old Cannock mother-of-five, Kirsty Carless, has been found guilty of murdering her ex-partner Louis Price on Christmas Day last year. The jury deliberated for two days before reaching a verdict, following a two-week trial that included disturbing video footage of Carless chasing Price around his parents' garden. The
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A man has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for murdering a father in front of his young child in a barbershop in Leyton. The victim, Josh McKay, 33, was stabbed in the neck by Renai Belle in a targeted attack and died from his injuries at the scene.
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has ruled in the case of Perez v. Commonwealth that double jeopardy principles do not prohibit resentencing a defendant to consecutive rather than concurrent sentences of life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. The decision was issued on January 1, 2025, and is a
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In a somber twist, Bryan Kohberger, the 30-year-old man who brutally murdered four University of Idaho students, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, and Madison Mogen, has been handed four life sentences. The case, which captivated a nation for three years, has finally seen justice served, with Kohberger's
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Erik Menendez, one of the convicted killers of his parents, has been taken to a medical facility due to a serious condition, prompting his attorney to seek his release from prison. Menendez has been serving a life sentence alongside his brother Lyle since their 1989 conviction. The brothers were recently
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A sense of closure settled over the families and friends of the four young Idaho college students brutally murdered in their Moscow home when 30-year-old Bryan Kohberger was sentenced to four life terms in prison on Wednesday. Despite the long-awaited conviction, the question that has haunted the nation since the
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Bryan Kohberger, the defendant in the high-profile 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, was sentenced to four consecutive fixed life sentences by Ada County District Judge Steven Hippler. Kohberger also received a 10-year fixed sentence for burglary, with the intent to kill. The Office of the Attorney General
