Duane Davis, the former Los Angeles gang leader who boasted in books and interviews of his involvement in the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, only to deny it when he came to trial, was sentenced to a minimum 40 years in prison on Tuesday. FRANCE 24’s Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles, United States. Source link
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An Egyptian court has sentenced a well-known television presenter and 11 others to death for manufacturing and trafficking narcotics in a sprawling drugs case. The presenter, Sarah Khalifa, 39, is best known for her program “Mission Impossible”, which dealt with issues concerning security and crime. Source link
A man who successfully appealed his conviction for murdering another man in Brighton has been jailed for life again after a retrial. Sergio Lemori killed Andrew O’Connell, whilst he slept in the city’s Royal Pavilion Gardens, by repeatedly dropping a stone slab onto his head. The now 40-year-old was found guilty of murder and jailed for life in 2018. But, after serving six years of his sentence, Lemori successfully appealed his conviction on the grounds of diminished responsibility. The case was brought back for a retrial at Hove Crown Court last month, where he was unanimously found guilty again of murder. Parents of boy with rare blood disorder urge people to become stem cell donors Credit: Sussex Police” loading=”lazy” width=”960″ height=”540″ decoding=”async” data-nimg=”1″ class=”rounded-lg” style=”position:static;width:100%;height:auto” fifu-data-src=”https://i1.wp.com/s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/771bfcc7d3f18fa8636a14dc9aec8e103c8ad00b0fd4f05695d027db52492df7/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w960%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fitv_news_193%2F0b7b2e68b145adb045c76c15454c4d33.jpg?ssl=1″/&quality=80&strip=all> Andrew O’Connell was sleeping in Royal Pavilion Gardens when he was murdered. Credit: Sussex Police He was re-sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 25 years. Mr O’Connell, who was from Chatham, in Kent, was found with serious injuries on August 7, 2018 and died in hospital …
A Damascus court on Tuesday sentenced Syria’s former dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the country’s years-long civil war. The court also handed the same sentence to seven other former security officials, including Assad’s brother Maher and cousin Atef Najib, in the first such ruling since the fall of the regime in December 2024. Source link
The co-founder of Aspiration, Joseph Sanberg, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Monday after defrauding investors and lenders of over $248 million. The startup, an eco-friendly digital banking company boasting fossil fuel-free investments, carbon offsets for gas purchases, and a debit card with cash-back benefits for shopping at clean companies, was founded by Sanberg and Andrei Cherny. Cherny left the company in 2022 and has not been charged. Sanberg, an Orange County native, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in October after being arrested in March last year. Aspiration subsequently filed for bankruptcy and liquidated all of its assets by July. Sanberg and venture capitalist Ibrahim AlHusseini, who also faces charges, together forged a series of bank statements in order to obtain loans. From 2020 to 2021, the pair forged AlHusseini’s bank statements to show millions of dollars in assets in order to obtain millions of dollars from lenders. Additionally, they forged a letter from their audit committee stating that $250 million in funds were available, when in reality Aspiration had less than $1 …
Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, Ashraf Al Safoo from Chicago has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for conspiring to provide material support to ISIS, which involved recruiting members into the terror group and encouraging attacks on its enemies. Al Safoo, 41, was a leader of online organization Khattab Media Foundation, which pledged allegiance to ISIS, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in an April 17 press release. The foundation created and spread threats and ISIS propaganda online, with Al Safoo and other members posting pro-ISIS articles, videos, infographics, and essays in coordination with the terrorist outfit. Most of the propaganda spread by Khattab promoted violent jihad on behalf of ISIS. The organization’s posts celebrated mass shootings and terror attacks in the United States and encouraged people to engage in “lone wolf” attacks in Western nations. In one post, Al Safoo asked Khattab members to “cause confusion and spread terror within the hearts of those who disbelieved,” according to the DOJ press release. In another post, Al Safoo wrote, “Work …
An asylum seeker who abducted and raped a 12-year-old in an attack which sparked protests in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, is facing a lengthy jail term. Afghan national Ahmad Mulakhil, 23, whose victim said he laughed while attacking her last summer, will be sentenced after he was found guilty of rape and two counts of sexual assault. Jurors at Warwick Crown Court also convicted him of child abduction and taking an indecent video of the girl during the ordeal near a residential cul-de-sac. He had admitted a further rape charge before his trial and will be sentenced for all counts at the same court on Friday. The trial judge said the defendant would receive “a substantial custodial sentence” which would “automatically make him liable for deportation at its conclusion”. Jurors at the 10-day trial were told that Mulakhil arrived in the UK four months before the rapes and had made an immigration application linked to “problems” he had experienced in Afghanistan. The trial was not told that Mulakhil arrived in Britain by small boat. Mulakhil told police …
Seven men have been sentenced for being part of a group that carried out a series of smash-and-grab raids at luxury stores across London. The defendants stole more than £100,000 worth of goods from several high-value stores over four months in 2025, the Metropolitan Police said. Using bricks, sledgehammers and a Ford Fiesta to ram into the doors of the shops, the robbers took watches, jewellery, fine art and safes containing cash, before using stolen vehicles as getaway cars. Across the group, five successful burglaries of shops in London were committed between May and July 2025, Kingston Crown Court previously heard, with a total of £146,356 worth of items stolen. The court heard there were also two unsuccessful burglaries on an apothecary in Marylebone and a watch shop in Westminster. The group consisted of Christopher Gibbs, 43; George O’Hare, 42; Paul Hughes, 42; Anthony Munday, 40; Lee James McCready, 46; Matthew Windrass, 50; and David Rigelsford, 37. McCready was on licence for murder committed in 2005 when he took part in a robbery during which …
A self-proclaimed illusionist from Mississippi, who spent years working casino floors under false names, including the alias “Shaun Mistery,” will now spend the next decade behind bars. On Tuesday (February 10), Judge Carl Petersen ordered 38-year-old Shaun Joseph Benward to serve concurrent prison terms that add up to 10 years. The Lyon County sentence comes with credit for nearly one year he has already spent in custody while waiting for the case to wrap up. A jury found Benward guilty in November 2025 on a series of felony gaming charges tied to activity at Grand Falls Casino in Larchwood. Prosecutors said the case centered on a calculated effort to exploit casino procedures for personal gain. He manipulated casino staff to secure over $10,000 in improper payouts and avoided IRS reporting requirements by breaking up over $12,000 in transactions, changing his outfit multiple times, and using different tellers to stay undetected. Benward has been arrested for similar scams throughout the country. Iowa Department of Public Safety According to the Iowa Department of Public Safety, jurors convicted …
