A man who stabbed his wife to death in front of their infant son after tracking her to a refuge has been found guilty of murder. Habibur Masum stabbed Kulsuma Akter more than 25 times after confronting her in Bradford city centre in April 2024. The baby was unharmed. Bradford Crown Court heard Ms Akter,...
Vanessa Buschschlüter Latin America editor, BBC News Online Reuters Hugo Carvajal was once one of the most powerful and feared officials in Venezuela Venezuela’s former head of military intelligence, Hugo Carvajal – also known as “El Pollo”, or The Chicken – has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges in the US. US officials...
Daniel Anjorin was attacked with a sword while he was on his way to school in east London. Read full article at source...
A 61-year-old man appeared in court on Monday to deny murdering a 54-year-old woman in Plymouth last year. Mark Fitzgerald, of Rendle Street, Plymouth, pleaded not guilty to murdering Lisa Paris between 7 and 18 March 2024. Mr Fitzgerald appeared in front of Plymouth Crown Court via a prison video link. Police said he will...
Karen Read, an American woman accused of killing her boyfriend in January 2022, has been found not guilty of second-degree murder. The jury also found her not guilty of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and leaving the scene of the collision. But she was convicted of driving while intoxicated. A July 2024 trial stemming from the...
A California doctor accused of giving Friends star Matthew Perry access to ketamine in the weeks before the actor’s overdose death has agreed to plead guilty, according to federal prosecutors. Dr Salvador Plasencia will plead guilty to four counts of distributing ketamine, federal prosecutors said in a statement on Monday. The plea carries a maximum...
An MP has pleaded not guilty to two counts of sexual assault that allegedly took place at London’s Groucho Club. Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP Patrick Spencer is accused of two assaults on two women on the same day in August 2023 – before he was elected. The 37-year-old, who became a Conservative MP...
Seven men have been found guilty of sexually exploiting two teenage girls who were repeatedly raped and assaulted in Rochdale for five years. The gang was convicted at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court of various sexual offences against the girls between 2001 and 2006. The victims were groomed from the age of 13 and treated...
Getty Images Bill Pallot was considered the top scholar of French 18th Century chairs Two French antiques experts have been convicted of forging historic chairs that they claimed had once belonged to French royals such as Marie Antoinette. Georges “Bill” Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars as well as longer suspended...
Watch: “It’s a big win for everyone” – Weinstein accusers speak out after verdict Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault in New York, after his sex crimes conviction in the state was overturned last year. A panel of seven female and five male jurors deliberated for five days in the six-week trial...
Alison Holt Social Affairs Editor, BBC News Reporting fromThe Old Bailey Figueiredo family Alice Figueiredo made previous attempts to take her own life, the Old Bailey heard A hospital trust and a staff member have been found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of a young woman in a mental health unit....
Political activist Tommy Robinson has pleaded not guilty to two charges of harassing two Daily Mail journalists. The 42-year-old from Luton, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged with two counts of harassment causing fear of violence towards two reporters in August. He was released on bail by senior district...
A man charged with murdering a woman in Devon has pleaded not guilty. Rowan Sutton, 30, of West Charleton Court, Kingsbridge, appeared at Plymouth Crown Court on Monday charged with the murder of Aimee Pike. The 22-year-old died on the A379 Embankment Road in Kingsbridge in the early hours of Wednesday 23 April. A trial...
Julia Quenzler Vladimir Motin will remain in custody until his trial The captain of a cargo ship that crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea has pleaded not guilty to gross negligence manslaughter. Vladimir Motin was captain of the Portuguese-flagged cargo ship Solong which crashed into the US tanker Stena Immaculate off the...
Eight people have been found guilty after US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of millions of dollars’ worth of jewellery in Paris nearly a decade ago. The four who took part in the heist were given prison sentences of up to eight years, but most of these terms were suspended. Two...