The stately yellow portico of the colonial-era courthouse in Ho Chi Minh City, has sentenced a 67-year-old Vietnamese, a property developer to death on Thursday for looting one of the country's largest banks over a period of 11 years. It's a rare verdict - she is one of very few women in Vietnam to be sentenced to death for a white collar crime. The decision is a reflection of the […]
A Japanese man has been sentenced to death for an arson attack at a Kyoto animation studio in 2019 which killed 36 people and injured dozens more. The incident, one of Japan's deadliest in recent decades, killed mostly young artists and shocked the anime world. Shinji Aoba, 45, pleaded guilty to the attack but his lawyers had sought a lighter sentence, arguing grounds of "mental incompetence". Judges rejected this however, […]
A mother and her former partner have been jailed for the murder of her toddler after he suffered more than 70 injuries in a night of “violent discipline” in their caravan. Sian Hedges, 27, and Jack Benham, 35, were sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum terms of 19 years and 23 years respectively at Maidstone Crown Court on Friday for the murder of Alfie Phillips. The pair murdered 18-month-old Alfie […]
The rapper G Herbo was sentenced to three years’ probation Thursday after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme that used stolen credit card information to pay for an opulent lifestyle including private jets and designer puppies. Under a deal with prosecutors reached last year, the 28-year-old Chicago rapper, whose real name is Herbert Wright III, entered a guilty plea in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud […]
A court in Nepal has sentenced the country’s highest-profile cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane to eight years in prison after he was convicted of raping an 18-year-old woman. The former captain’s lawyer said he would launch a higher court appeal against the jail term. Lamichhane, 23, has been the face of cricket in Nepal and the only player from the Himalayan country to take part in prominent Twenty20 leagues in India, Australia, Pakistan and […]
Liberia's former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott and three of her family members have been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. The four were arrested and indicted in June last year in connection with the death of Charlotte Musu, who was reportedly Ms Scott's niece. In February last year, Charlotte was murdered by unknown people at Ms Scott's home in Brewerville, north-west Liberia. The former chief justice had insisted intruders […]
Two kung fu coaches were handed death sentences in China on Monday, following their arrest last year for a 1997 poisoning that killed seven children, a court said. The men planted rat poison in food at a martial arts school in China’s eastern Anhui Province due to a business conflict with its boss, and then evaded prosecution for nearly 26 years. Defendants Fu Zejie and Zhu Zulin were each “sentenced […]
A Nebraska mother who pleaded guilty to giving her teenage daughter pills for an abortion and helping to burn and bury the fetus was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison. Jessica Burgess, a 42-year-old woman pleaded guilty in July to tampering with human remains, false reporting, and providing an abortion after at least 20 weeks of gestation, which is illegal in Nebraska. Madison County District Judge Mark […]
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) achieved a significant milestone in the enforcement of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015, securing a life imprisonment sentence against a former public officer for the heinous crime of sodomy. In a historic ruling, the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Kubwa, Abuja, presided over by Justice Asmau Akanbi-Yusuf, convicted and sentenced him to […]
