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A disgraced real-estate lawyer who this week admitted to pilfering millions in client money to support her and her family’s lavish lifestyle was handcuffed in a Toronto courtroom Friday afternoon and marched out by a constable to serve a 20-day sentence for contempt of court, as her husband and mother watched. Singa Bui “consistently ignored […]
A 71-year-old Chinese man was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for taking part in a plot targeting the Falun Gong spiritual movement in the United States. A street booth set up by the Hong Kong Falun Gong. File photo: xahl dera, via Flickr. John Chen, of Los Angeles, was convicted of acting […]
Hong Kong 47: Top pro-democracy leaders jailed for years BBC.com Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial CNN HK47: dozens of pro-democracy activists jailed in Hong Kong’s largest national security trial The Guardian HK Jails Benny Tai for 10 Years in Longest Security Law […]
A man in his 40s has been jailed for 17.5 years for the rape and sexual assault of his four daughters who took to sleeping together in order to escape his advances. A sitting of the Central Criminal Court in Cork heard that the man, who can’t be named to protect the identity of his […]
A former councillor has been jailed for 18 years for attempting to kill his wife. Darren Brown, 35, was convicted of attempted murder by a jury after stabbing his wife Corrine at their home in Wildmill, Bridgend, on 10 July last year. The court previously heard that he laughed as he tried to stab his […]
Two Hong Kong police officers have been sentenced to 14 months in jail each for trying to buy off a teenage girl with HK$100,000 (US$12,850) to stop her from testifying over accusations one of them had sex with her when she was under age. Constables Yao Yanwu, 29, and Ng Sing-yap, 28, pleaded guilty to […]
BBC People from across the world paid to see the videos of macaques being tortured and killed Two women have been jailed for their part in a monkey torture ring and behaviour described by the judge as “depraved, sickening and wicked”. Adriana Orme, 56, from Upton upon Severn, and Holly Le Gresley, 37, from Kidderminster, […]
A Russian court has sentenced a Moscow paediatrician to five and a half years in a penal colony, state news agency TASS says, after the mother of one of her patients publicly denounced her for comments she made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Prosecutors last week requested Nadezhda Buyanova, 68, be jailed for six years […]
Garda Sergeant Gerard Dalton said the woman was socialising in the Mulroy Woods Hotel in Milford, Co Donegal, on the night in question and had posted pictures on her Snapchat and Instagram accounts. A short time later she received a Snapchat message from Ward. Source link
A self-confessed paedophile who pleaded guilty to having and sharing videos and images that involved young children being raped by adult males, was jailed today for 22 months with the final 12 months suspended. Reporting restrictions in respect of the defendant’s identify, were lifted by sentencing judge Sinead McMullan, at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court, allowing […]