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The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, is under pressure to resign following the sentencing of former police officer Wayne Couzens, who kidnapped, raped, and murdered Sarah Everard in March. Despite admitting that her leadership has presided over "the worst moment in the 192-year history of the Metropolitan Police,"
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Violence and harassment against women in Scotland remain a persistent and deeply ingrained problem, with anti-sexist organisation Engender urging that tackling abuse of women needs to begin at the grassroots level. After the sentencing of Sarah Everard's killer, Wayne Couzens, to life in prison, Rape Crisis Scotland warned
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Lyra McKee, a 29-year-old journalist known for her work in Northern Ireland and her advocacy for marriage equality, was tragically killed while observing rioting in Derry in April 2019. McKee's death sparked outrage across the UK and the world of journalism, and was condemned by figures from across
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Oakland, California, has seen a rise in gun violence since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 2021 outpacing 2020 in homicides. The city logged 66 homicides this time last year, and 52 in 2019. Among this year's victims were two teenage girls, Alayasia Thurston and Zoey Hughes,
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A major overhaul is required to address the pervasive issue of violence against women and girls in Britain, according to a watchdog's findings. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, sparked by the shocking murder of Sarah Everard, calls for a "fundamental cross-system change" to prioritize protecting women
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A 62-year-old man, convicted of murder and gang kidnapping, was arrested in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 23 years after he jumped parole. Ravindra Pande, who was part of the "Birju Gij and Ravindra Pande" gang, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 16-year-old boy
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A 14-year-old Peterborough resident has been sent to trial on charges of manslaughter and three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking in connection with the death of Tyler Nolan, a 24-year-old father of six. The teenager, whose name is protected under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, was initially
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A former Iowa resident, Robin A. Holland, 31, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to the murder of Justin Hughes, a 33-year-old man from Shrewsbury, Missouri. The killing occurred in 2018 behind a Walmart in Shrewsbury, where Hughes was found stabbed to death in a
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The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, without explanation, declined to halt the execution of Ernest Lee Johnson, 61, who is scheduled to be put to death on October 5 for a triple killing that occurred during a robbery in 1994. Johnson's lawyers argue that his intellectual disability makes
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Mollie Tibbetts, a 20-year-old University of Iowa student, was stabbed to death on a rural road outside her hometown of Brooklyn, Iowa, while out for an evening run on July 18, 2018. Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 27-year-old former farmhand who came to the U.S. illegally from Mexico as a
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A jury has delivered a guilty verdict in the 2019 murder of a Washington transgender teen, Nikki Kuhnhausen, 17. The conviction of David Bogdanov, 27, for second-degree murder and malicious harassment, marks a significant moment in the fight against hate crimes. Kuhnhausen went missing in June 2019 and her remains
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Researchers at the University of New Mexico have created a groundbreaking tool to help identify deceased individuals, especially Indigenous people, in homicide and missing person cases. The New Mexico Decedent Image Database, which includes 150 million images of whole-body CT scans, is the first of its kind in the nation.
