All posts tagged: Crime

Wife who cut off husband’s penis plans remarry him after he won £3K | World | News

Wife who cut off husband’s penis plans remarry him after he won £3K | World | News

Published by Sam Flores

A husband whose wife cut off his penis and flushed it down the toilet is set to remarry his former bride after receiving £3,000 in compensation. Gilberto Nogueira de Oliveira endured the horrific injury inflicted by his spouse Daiane dos Santos Farias in Atibaia, São Paulo state, Brazil. Furious Daiane said she inflicted the horrific injury on her spouse because she claims he had cheated on her on her birthday in 2023. Daiane enticed Gilberto with the prospect of a romantic encounter, binding his hands with her underwear. She then grabbed a knife and severed her partner’s penis before flushing the appendage down the toilet. Incredibly despite the loss of his manhood, Gilberto and Daiane have reportedly made amends and vow to wed once more once she is released from custody. Daiane was eventually handed a sentence of four years and eight months in prison but was granted parole and released from the Mogi das Cruzes Women’s Penitentiary in November 2025, according to O Globo According to the Daily Star, in an astonishing twist, Gilberto …

Poland Urges Internet Firms to Act on Violent Content After School Stabbings

Poland Urges Internet Firms to Act on Violent Content After School Stabbings

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WARSAW, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Poland summoned internet companies including ⁠Google ⁠and Meta to the Digital ⁠Affairs Ministry on Friday, demanding they do more to curb the spread ​of violent content following a series of school stabbing attacks. Thousands of police were sent to schools ‌this week to ensure security after ‌a series of three attacks in four days triggered a wave of online threats ⁠that left ⁠pupils and teachers fearing for their safety. Warsaw says the glorification of violence ​in corners of the internet, for example in groups devoted to Nazi ideology or idolising serial killers, is having a damaging effect on children and has urged social media firms to do more to ​prevent content that encourages or threatens violence. “It is the expectation of every Polish citizen ⁠that … no ⁠one should incite others ⁠to commit ​suicide, that there should be no content endorsing or encouraging criminal threats, and that users ​should not be exposed to ⁠situations like acts of murder, physical harm, or mutilation,” Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski told a press …

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Published by Jenni Sidey

The Heights by Ian Rankin; The Mortons by Scott Westerfeld and Justine Larbalestier; Murder Most Cryptic by Alys Cummings; The Deadly Inheritance of Everest Macdonald by AJ West; Inheritance by Gillian Slovo The Heights by Ian Rankin (Orion, £25) Luxury tower blocks, those potent symbols of hyper-gentrification, the increasing wealth gap and the displacement of existing communities, are a gift to novelists. Rankin’s first standalone thriller in almost two decades centres on The Heights, 18 storeys high and facing London’s Hyde Park, where DS Gillian Gish is investigating the suspicious death of night-shift security guard Dwayne Hogarth. The high-net-worth individuals who live there, including a young singer, a gangster’s wife, a man who “made a mint in post-glasnost Russia” and the daughter of a very well-connected Zimbabwean, are either uncontactable or tight-lipped, and it soon becomes clear that the developer, despite his bravado, is in financial trouble. Everyone, it appears, has something to hide – and then a second corpse is discovered. Rankin is a superb storyteller, and this is well up to his usual …

Trump says Nidal Hasan execution won’t be livestreamed

Trump says Nidal Hasan execution won’t be livestreamed

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Nidal Hasan, charged with killing 13 people and wounding 32 in a November 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, is pictured in an undated Bell County Sheriff’s Office photograph. Bell County Sheriff’s Office | Reuters President Donald Trump said Thursday that the planned execution by firing squad of convicted Fort Hood mass killer Nidal Hasan would not be livestreamed, canceling the Pentagon‘s plans to do so. Trump’s announcement came after growing backlash against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to show the former U.S. Army major’s execution live online, with concern that the footage would become a recruiting tool for terrorists. Hasan, who is paralyzed from the waist down, is scheduled to be executed Dec. 3 by an Army firing squad at 1 p.m. Central Time in Fort Hood, which is located in Killeen, Texas. Hasan, who during his 2013 court-martial said he was motivated to defend the “leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the Taliban,” could seek to delay the execution with a new legal challenge. “Nidal Malik Hasan, a former U.S. Army …

Stuff Your Kindle Mystery and Crime edition: How to grab free books before the event ends

Stuff Your Kindle Mystery and Crime edition: How to grab free books before the event ends

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TL;DR: The latest Stuff Your Kindle Day takes place on Oct. 15-16. Mystery and Crime Collection, hosted by Book Below, offers free mysteries, thrillers, suspense, and crime books. We’re only a week on from the spooky Stuff Your Kindle Day event hosted by Indie Visible, and now we’ve got another opportunity to stock up on reads without spending anything. That’s right, Stuff Your Kindle Day is back once again. And this time, the focus is on mystery and crime. Mystery and Crime Collection, hosted by Book Below, is offering free mysteries, thrillers, suspense, and crime books until Oct. 16. Everything you download is yours to keep forever, so there really is no reason to hold back. Take this as your sign to significantly add to your TBR pile without any guilt. SEE ALSO: T-Mobile is giving away the 2026 Motorola Razr for free — how to qualify Looking to make the most of the latest Stuff Your Kindle Day? We’ve lined up everything you need to know about this popular event. When is Stuff Your …

OpenAI engineer Alfozan, charged with bugging, is partner in Saudi VC firm

OpenAI engineer Alfozan, charged with bugging, is partner in Saudi VC firm

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Abdulrahman Alfozan, the Saudi national charged with secretly installing a recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI, had booked a one-way ticket from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia with his wife and a third family member before his arrest, federal prosecutors told a judge in a newly unsealed court filing. Alfozan “has the means — and will have the incentive — to flee the United States sooner if he learns about this case before he is arrested,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco said in the Oct. 8 filing, which asked a judge to seal a criminal complaint against him and a warrant for his arrest. The filing said the tickets were booked for Oct. 12, from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul. The judge granted the sealing request, and Alfozan was arrested Oct. 9, the Department of Justice has said. He has been detained since his arrest. Alfozan, 35, is a venture partner in a Saudi Arabian venture capital firm that lists a prince from that nation’s ruling royal family …

Ex-UK Army Chef Jailed for Nearly Four Years Over Homemade Gun, Explosives

Ex-UK Army Chef Jailed for Nearly Four Years Over Homemade Gun, Explosives

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LONDON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A British army ⁠chef ⁠who was motivated by ⁠an extreme right-wing ideology was jailed for nearly four ​years on Wednesday after he was arrested with a homemade gun and ‌explosives. Mark Broadhurst, 28, was ‌arrested at his barracks in September 2024 after police discovered ⁠online messages ⁠espousing racist views, his desire to form a militia and ​his intention to create homemade firearms and sell them to right-wing groups. He was in a Telegram group with three other men who last year ​were jailed for a combined total of 29 years for ⁠planning to ⁠carry out a terrorist ⁠attack ​at mosques or synagogues as part of what they believed to be ​a coming “race war”. When ⁠Broadhurst was arrested, police found knives and crossbows, black powder, 9mm ammunition and air pistols at his home address, as well as what police described as “an improvised homemade cannon”. Broadhurst pleaded guilty to possession ⁠of a firearm and making or possessing an explosive under suspicious ⁠circumstances, though he denied he possessed them for the …

Dark Japanese Crime Novels

Dark Japanese Crime Novels

Published by Jenni Sidey

The crime genre umbrella has many subgenres that are easy to define and categorize, like puzzle mysteries and detective fiction. But on the flip side, there are the slippery ones like suspense and noir. The former can be defined by a feeling that readers can interpret differently, and as for the latter, well, there’s a history. Noir refers to a specific genre of film from the ‘40s and ‘50, with the later revival of that style being labeled neo-noir. While many of the original noir films were adaptations of books, film noir is heavily recognized by its mood and aesthetic. Adding a bit of complication is the confusion created by hard-boiled fiction often being interchanged with a noir label, even though they are not really the same. While film noir is heavily associated with American culture, you can find the term used throughout the world, like with Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s early works (Drunken Angel and Stray Dog) and the massively popular Scandinavian books known as Nordic noir. So what does it mean when a …

Austrian Court Grants Former Property Tycoon Benko’s Request for House Arrest

Austrian Court Grants Former Property Tycoon Benko’s Request for House Arrest

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VIENNA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – An Austrian court on ⁠Wednesday ⁠granted former property tycoon ⁠Rene Benko’s request to be released from prison to house ​arrest with an ankle monitor after he served two-thirds of a 30-month sentence ‌for insolvency fraud. Benko, 49, will ‌now move from prison in his home city of Innsbruck to a ⁠roughly 60-square-metre (650-square-foot) ⁠apartment that his lawyer Norbert Wess has said has been ​rented for him in the city so he can better prepare for a fraud trial next month. Benko denies all wrongdoing. Benko has been convicted of insolvency-related fraud in ​the two cases brought to trial so far stemming from a sprawling ⁠investigation ⁠into the collapse of ⁠the Signa ​property group he founded. The second conviction resulted in a suspended sentence. He remains ​a suspect in the ⁠continuing investigation into a range of potential crimes including fraud, with prosecutors estimating the total harm caused by Benko and other suspects at €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion). His first two trials dealt with sums in the hundreds of thousands of ⁠euros. …

Ukrainian ex-officer goes on trial in Germany over Nord Stream blasts | Courts News

Ukrainian ex-officer goes on trial in Germany over Nord Stream blasts | Courts News

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The trial is expected to run into February and could test Germany’s political stance on Ukraine. Published On 14 Oct 202614 Oct 2026 A Ukrainian former military officer is standing trial in Germany, accused of organising the secret operation that blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines in 2022 and cut Western Europe off from its biggest source of Russian natural gas. The trial opened on Wednesday at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court and is expected to run into February next year. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list It is the first public hearing of the evidence in a years-long investigation. The defendant, a 50-year-old identified under German privacy rules only as Serhii K., is accused of leading a group of Ukrainian agents – including divers and an explosives expert – in one of the biggest infrastructure sabotage operations of modern times. He denies any involvement and is the only person on trial. The prosecution Serhii K. was arrested in Italy in August 2025 and extradited to Germany that November. Prosecutors accused him …