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The Telangana high court has deferred the hearing of a criminal appeal filed by Thirunagaru Sravan Kumar, one of the convicts in the honour killing of Dalit youth Perumalla Pranay Kumar, which took place in Miryalaguda, Nalgonda district, in 2018. Sravan Kumar has challenged the life sentence awarded to him
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The execution of Takahiro Shiraishi, convicted of murdering nine people, is a callous attack on the right to life in Japan and a significant setback for the country's human rights record. The secrecy surrounding the notification of executions in Japan adds to the cruelty of this punishment. The
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The Japanese government has executed 34-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi, also known as the "Twitter killer," for murdering eight women and one man in 2017. Shiraishi, who was arrested in 2017 after police discovered the bodies of his victims in cold-storage cases in his apartment, had found the victims on
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A former police officer, Andrew Holmes, has received a suspended sentence after being convicted of sending offensive and obscene messages to a woman on a dating app. Holmes, who was a serving officer at Hampshire Police, had been in contact with the victim on Tinder, sending her messages that included
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In a heartbreaking case, a 20-year-old BCA student was murdered in Lucknow's Vigyanpuri area by her stepfather, who allegedly raped her before the fatal attack. The mother of the victim testified to the police that her daughter was repeatedly raped by her stepfather over a period of two
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The disappearance of Julie Buckley, a 54-year-old woman from Christchurch, remains a mystery as police continue to search for her. The case has been classified as a "no-body" murder, with police treating her disappearance as having resulted in serious harm. Detectives have been conducting thorough searches of the
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The Supreme Court of WA has sentenced two men, Jack Brearley and Brodie Palmer, to life in prison with minimum parole periods of 22 and 18 years, respectively, for the murder of 15-year-old Indigenous schoolboy Cassius Turvey in 2022. A third man, Mitchell Forth, was sentenced to 12 years for
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A nearly 15-year struggle by a Texas death row prisoner, Ruben Gutierrez, to prove his innocence through DNA testing has gained momentum after the US Supreme Court cleared the way for him to continue his legal challenge. At the center of the case is a 1998 robbery and murder in
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Researchers from the miscarriage of justice charity Appeal have uncovered widespread concerns surrounding the doctrine of joint enterprise in England and Wales, which allows defendants to be convicted of crimes they did not physically carry out if they are deemed to have encouraged or assisted the perpetrator. A six-month observation
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A 50-year-old unsolved murder case in Northern Ireland has revealed "numerous failings" in how police handled the investigation, leaving the family of the victim, Marian Beattie, with only eight documented contacts in five decades. The Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland found that the police investigation
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Colin Campbell, formerly known as Colin Norris, has lost his appeals against his convictions for the murders of four elderly patients and attempting to murder a fifth. The Court of Appeal dismissed his appeals, upholding his life sentence for the murders of Doris Ludlam, Bridget Bourke, Irene Crookes, and Ethel
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The recent sentencing of Kyle Clifford to a whole-life order for the murders of John Hunt's wife, Carol, and their two daughters, Hannah and Louise, has left the family reeling. In a disturbing account, it emerged that Clifford gained access to the family home by deceiving Carol into
