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Miguel Angel Corea Diaz, a high-ranking member of the MS-13 gang, has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit murder in the aid of racketeering. The 41-year-old, also known as "Reaper," was convicted by a federal jury in November of conspiracy
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A potentially complex and contentious process is about to begin in the penalty trial of Nikolas Cruz, the 23-year-old man who pleaded guilty in October to the murders of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. Attorneys for Cruz will have
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Jurors in the murder trial of Ali Harbi Ali have been shown chilling CCTV footage of the terror suspect's journey to fatally stab Sir David Amess at a constituency appointment last year. The footage, recorded on October 15, shows Ali, 26, walking alongside unsuspecting members of the public,
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Prosecutors have alleged that Ali Harbi Ali, accused of stabbing veteran MP Sir David Amess, carried out a "cold and calculated" murder, planned for over two years, as part of a warped and twisted ideology. The killing, which took place on October 15, 2021, at a constituency surgery
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The fatal assault of 16-month-old Star Hobson by her mother, Frankie Smith, and her partner, Savannah Brockhill, has led to a significant extension of Smith's prison sentence. Star suffered "unsurvivable" and "utterly catastrophic" injuries in a three-hour attack, resulting in her death. The case
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The jury in the Newport Crown Court is still deliberating on the murder and manslaughter charges against Lewis Aquilina, Ethan Strickland, and Elliot Fiteni, with no verdicts returned yet in any of the remaining counts. The jury has reached guilty verdicts in several other cases, including Joseph Jeremy, who was
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As the Covid pandemic forced people indoors, a shadow pandemic emerged - violence against women and girls. According to Welsh Women's Aid, the organization's Live Fear Free helpline saw a 49% increase in calls during the first year of Covid. Survivors reported a 29% increase in
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The government's £23.5m advertising campaign, Enough, aimed at challenging perpetrators of violence against women has been met with disappointment from many, given its cautious approach to the issue. The campaign's posters, featuring young men attempting to challenge toxic behaviour, seem to tiptoe around the problem,
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US Attorney General Merrick Garland held a press conference on Tuesday, describing the racist motivations behind Ahmaud Arbery's murder, as three white men were convicted of federal hate crimes charges. Garland emphasized that the killers targeted and chased Arbery because of the color of his skin, and that
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Wanda Cooper-Jones, Ahmaud Arbery's mother, expressed her pain and frustration with the Department of Justice's (DOJ) handling of the case, stating they "ignored" her objection to plea deals that a federal judge later rejected. Attorney General Merrick Garland sidestepped criticism of the DOJ'
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FBI analyst Amy Vaughan testified Wednesday in the federal hate crime trial of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan, two of the White men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, in Georgia. Vaughan presented text messages and social media posts from the defendants that included racist insults
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The US Attorney Bobbi Bernstein presented shocking evidence of racist language used by William "Roddie" Bryan, Travis McMichael, and Gregory McMichael in the opening statements of the federal hate crimes trial of the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery in February 2020. The prosecution argued that the
