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Former Olympic cyclist and world champion Rohan Dennis received a suspended sentence on Wednesday over what was termed a “tragic accident” that led to the death of his wife, fellow Olympian Melissa Hoskins. The 34-year-old Dennis appeared in South Australia District Court in Adelaide after earlier pleading guilty to a …
Read More »Head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog receives 5-year prison sentence
The head of Russia’s only independent election watchdog was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in a penal colony after being found guilty of working with an “undesirable organization.” Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the Golos movement, was arrested in August 2023. He pleaded not guilty at his trial. Human rights campaigners …
Read More »Death sentence to rapist and murderer of 6-year-old girl | 6 साल की बच्ची से रेप-हत्या के दोषी को फांसी: जज ने मासूम के लिए लिखी कविता- मैं चीखती थी..चिल्लाती थी, किसी ने सुना नहीं – seoni malwa News
कोर्ट ने 6 साल की बच्ची से रेप और हत्या के दोषी को फांसी की सजा सुनाई। नर्मदापुरम जिले के सिवनी मालवा में 6 साल की बच्ची से रेप के बाद हत्या के दोषी को कोर्ट ने फांसी की सजा सुनाई। कोर्ट ने आरोपी पर 3000 रुपए जुर्माना भी लगाया। …
Read More »Pat King gets 3-month conditional sentence plus time served
Pat King, centre, one of the organizers of the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa, leaves the Ottawa Courthouse after his sentencing on Wednesday. King got a three-month conditional sentence, plus credit for time served. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press) Pat King, a key organizer of the 2022 convoy protest in downtown …
Read More »Lawyers propose 6-year sentence for former Nunavut priest who sexually abused children
Crown and defence lawyers in the case of a priest who sexually abused children in Nunavut are together recommending he receive a six-year sentence. Eric Dejaeger, 77, pleaded guilty earlier this week to six counts of sexually abusing children in Igloolik between 1978 and 1982 — some of them as young as four. …
Read More »Serbian mass shooter who killed 9 gets maximum sentence of 20 years in prison
A Serbian court on Thursday convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison a young man who gunned down nine people and wounded 12 in one of two back-to-back mass killings last year that shook the Balkan nation. Uros Blazic, 21, took up an automatic rifle on May 4, 2023, …
Read More »Polygamist leader Samuel Bateman draws 50-year sentence for efforts to coerce women, girls into sex
A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday in Arizona for coercing girls as young as nine years old to submit to criminal sex acts with him and other adults, and for scheming to …
Read More »U.S. Air National Guard member who leaked documents on Ukraine gets 15-year sentence
A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts Air National Guard member to 15 years in prison Tuesday for leaking classified military documents about the war in Ukraine. Prosecutors said the leak put the country’s national security at risk, endangered other military members and damaged U.S. relationships with its allies. Jack Teixeira had pleaded guilty …
Read More »Canadian David DePape gets life sentence in 2nd trial related to attack on Paul Pelosi
The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in their California home was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial. A San Francisco jury in …
Read More »Teen seeks reduced sentence in Kenneth Lee case over strip searches – Toronto
A teen girl who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the alleged swarming of a homeless Toronto man is seeking to have her sentence reduced after she was repeatedly made to strip naked during searches while in custody. The teen was one of eight girls – all between the ages of …
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