2 h. ago Prison inmate sues for 'right to eat Vegemite' after being handed life sentence

Andre McKechnie, a convicted murder, is suing the Australian state of Victoria over his right to eat Vegemite and '"enjoy his culture as an Australian' in a controversial case

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5 h. ago Mum who murdered her two children, 8 & 6, and hid bodies in suitcases in storage unit for months jailed

A NEW Zealand mum who killed her two young children and hid their bodies in suitcases has been sentenced to life in prison. Hakyung Lee, 45, was ordered on Wednesday to serve at least 17 years behind bars before becoming eligible for parole.  The High Court in Auckland heard she allegedly killed eight-year-old Yuna Jo...

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6 h. ago Woman gets life sentence for killing children in New Zealand’s ‘suitcase murders’ case

Hakyung Lee attempted to kill herself and her children but woke up to find them unresponsive

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9 h. ago New Zealand woman gets life sentence for killing her children in ‘suitcase murder’ case

Hakyung Lee was convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for five years

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15 h. ago Mother who hid children’s bodies in suitcases jailed for life in New Zealand

Hakyung Lee was found guilty of murdering her children and concealing their remains in a storage lockerA mother who murdered her two children and hid their bodies in suitcases stored inside a rented locker has been sentenced to life imprisonment in New Zealand.Hakyung Lee, a New Zealand citizen originally from South Korea, was found guilty earlier this year of killing her children in a crime that has become known as the “suitcase murders”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Yachtsman locked up for at least 27 years for stabbing his ex

Martin Suter, 68, was sentenced to life with a minimum term of 27 years for stabbing sailor Ann Blackwood, in an attack which also involved a 12-inch kitchen knife.

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5 d. ago Police chief apologises for failing to catch serial rapist armed cop as he gets 37th life sentence

A POLICE chief apologised yesterday for failing to catch a serial rapist armed officer as he got a 37th life sentence. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Andy Valentine said of prolific predator David Carrick: “His actions bring shame on the uniform he should never have been allowed to wear. “We heard how he grossly misused the position...

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5 d. ago Biafran separatist leader sentenced to life on terrorism charges by Nigerian court

Judge says Nnamdi Kanu used his Indigenous People of Biafra group to incite attacks on security officials and civiliansThe Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has been sentenced to life in prison on terrorism-related charges by a court in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.Judge James Omotosho said prosecutors had shown that Kanu, who also holds British citizenship, had used his Indigenous People of Biafra group (Ipob) to incite attacks on security officials and civilians in south-east Nigeria and during anti-police protests in Lagos. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Serial rapist Met cop David Carrick is handed his 37th life sentence after being convicted of molesting girl, 12, and raping former partner

'Predatory and controlling' former London cop David Carrick, 50, attacked the 12-year-old girl over two years while he was aged between 14 and 16.

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6 d. ago Former Met officer David Carrick sentenced for rape and molesting child

Convicted serial offender given further life sentence for crimes against 12-year-old girl in 1980s and former partnerFormer police officer and convicted sex offender David Carrick has been sentenced at the Old Bailey to life with a minimum of 30 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner. Carrick, 50, who served as an armed officer in the Metropolitan police, sexually assaulted the child in the late 1980s, his trial heard. More than 20 years later, he repeatedly raped a woman and subjected her to “degrading and humiliating” abuse during the course of a toxic relationship.Mrs Justice McGowan sentenced Carrick for the fresh convictions on Thursday after he was found guilty of two charges of rape, one of sexual assault and coercive and controlling behaviour towards the woman between 2014 and 2019, and five counts of indecent assault relating to the girl in the late 1980s. Carrick’s offences came to light after he pleaded guilty in 2022 and 2023 to 71 sexual offe...

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6 d. ago Serial rapist Met Police officer David Carrick already in prison handed 37th life sentence

Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick has been found guilty of molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner at the Old Bailey. He was already a convicted sex offender before the allegations came to light

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6 d. ago Rapist Met cop David Carrick learns fate after letter exposed what he did to girl, 12

Ex-Met officer David Carrick has been handed an additional life sentence with a minimum term of 30 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl and raping a former partner

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6 d. ago Former ‘Chinese mayor’ Alice Guo gets life sentence for running scam centre in Philippines

Former mayor headed firm that ran sprawling scam complex targeting foreigners

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6 d. ago Rapist police officer David Carrick guilty of sexually abusing girl, 12, after confession letter uncovered

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick was previously handed 36 life sentences in 2023

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6 d. ago Rapist cop David Carrick guilty of molesting girl, 12, as confession letter uncovered

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick, who was handed 36 life sentences in 2023 with a minimum term of 32 years, has been found guilty of further offences

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8 d. ago Prisoner sues for his 'human right' to eat Vegemite, claiming it is 'his culture as an Australian'

Andre McKechnie, 54, serving a life sentence for murder, took his battle to the Supreme Court of Victoria, according to documents released on Tuesday.

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8 d. ago Probe launched into death of double murderer William MacDowell who died in jail

William MacDowell died a year after being given a life sentence for the murders of his lover and her young son in November 1976.

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9 d. ago ICC prosecutors seek life sentence for Janjaweed leader convicted of Darfur crimes

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked for a life sentence for a Janjaweed militia leader convicted of atrocities in Darfur over 20 years ago

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9 d. ago John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence

Friends, enemies and lovers animate more than 60 years of the author’s remarkable correspondence John Updike had the mind of a middling middle-class postwar American male, and the prose style of a literary genius. Such a lord of language was he that even the notoriously grudging Vladimir Nabokov afforded him a meed of praise. A reviewer, musing on the disproportion between the style and content of Updike’s fiction, likened him to a lobster with one hugely overgrown claw. It was a comparison Updike was to remember – for all his bland urbanity, on display from start to finish in this mighty volume of his letters, he could be prickly, and did not take slights lightly.As a novelist he aimed, as he once put it, to “give the mundane its beautiful due”. Apart from a few rare and in some cases ill-advised ventures into the exotic – the court at Elsinore, Africa, the future – his abiding subject was the quotidian life of “ordinary” Americans in the decades between the end of the second world...

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1 week ago Jealous husband 'murders wife with pair of scissors as she begged for her life'

Brian Jutson was sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his wife, Sherry, who he stabbed more than 30 times with a pair of scissors. Jutson confessed to the crime

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