She entered the courtroom armed with a .22-caliber Beretta pistol and fired eight shots. Warning: This article contains details some people may find distressing. A mother whose seven-year-old daughter was kidnapped and killed, took justice into her own hands by shooting her daughters murderer in the middle of his trial. On May 5 1980, Anna […]

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She is serving at least four years. Doctor Strange actress Zara Phythian has been sentenced to eight years in jail for a string of sexual abuse charges on a teenage girl. Pythian and her husband Victor Marke were found guilty last week of 14 counts of sexual activity with a child after they both groomed […]

4 years ago

The R&B singer still faces charges in both Illinois and Minnesota. R Kelly has been convicted by a federal jury of racketeering in his sex trafficking trial in Brooklyn in the United States. Jurors deliberated for slightly over a day before voting to convict Kelly on all nine counts he faced. The trial began on […]

4 years ago

There was a moment there when this case was all anyone could talk about. Adnan Syed has been in prison for over 17 years for the murder of Hae Min Lee, his ex-girlfriend. His case was the subject of a 12-part podcast by Sarah Koenig, which explored variances bits of evidence that were overlooked by […]

8 years ago

The case continued on Friday at Belfast Crown Court. The woman at the centre of a high-profile rape trial at Belfast Crown Court has denied “watering down” her knowledge of Ulster rugby and its players. Ireland and Ulster player Paddy Jackson (26) and his teammate Stuart Olding (24) are accused of raping the woman in […]

8 years ago

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