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A Philadelphia man who received a $4.1million settlement from city officials after he served 24 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit is sent back to jail.     Shaurn Thomas, now 50, pleaded guilty in court on Thursday to killing 38-year-old Akeem Edwards on January 3, 2023, over a $1,200 drug debt, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports.   …

A Lagos State High sitting in Ikeja, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, convicted and sentenced a couple, Harry Uyanwanne and Oluwakemi Odemuyiwa (a.k.a Kristein Uyanwanne) along with Temple International Church, for stealing N52 million.    Justice Mojisola Dada handed down the verdict after finding them guilty of the offences preferred against them.    The judge also ordered that the third defendant …

The family of an 18-year-old British boy who is facing up to 20 years in a UAE prison over a holiday romance has warned that his mental health is ‘declining’.  Marcus Fakana, of Tottenham, was held in Dubai’s ‘notorious’ Al Barsha Police Station for days after the ‘strict’ mother of a 17-year-old girl he had sx with on holiday this summer reported …

An 18-year-old Tottenham residents holiday with his parents has turned into a months-long ordeal that could lead to 20 years in prison after he was charged with having sx with another tourist   a 17-year-old girl, who is now 18.  Marcus Fakana joined his parents for what was supposed to be a short holiday starting August 26, 2024.  While there, he met …

The Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced Musa Jimoh to one year and four months imprisonment for impersonating a Nigerian Army Major and possessing fraudulent documents.   Justice Rahman Oshodi delivered the verdict on Thursday, describing Jimoh’s actions as calculated, premeditated, and damaging to public trust in the country’s military institutions.   “This offence is particularly egregious because it was …

Justice Simo Amobeda of a Federal High Court sitting in Kano, has sentenced a 31-year old man, Lawan Salisu, to three years imprisonment for sexu@lly abusing a 10-year old boy.   Salisu, of Tishama Yan Awakai Farin Bene Transformer in Nassarawa Local Government, Kano State, was convicted on a one-count charge of procurement and s#xual exploitation after he pleaded guilty …

  A lifestyle blogging father who starved his newborn son to death by demanding he should live on sunlight instead of food and milk has had his jail sentence increased.    Maxim Lyutyi, 44, and his partner Oxana Mironova, 34, failed to properly feed their baby Cosmos, who died from ‘pneumonia and emaciation’ when he was less than one month old. …

Former France international footballer Wissam Ben Yedder has been handed a suspended two-year jail sentence for s3xually assaulting a woman in September. The 34-year-old, who previously captained French Ligue 1 side AS Monaco and is the club’s second all-time leading goal scorer, was sentenced on Tuesday after being found guilty of the offense.   The incident occurred on the evening …

An ally of US President-elect Donald Trump warned Thursday that the new administration will have not tolerate New York Attorney General Letitia James if she weaponizes the legal system against the 47th president. “I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” Mike Davis, the founder of the Article III Project, an advocacy …

The investigative panel set up by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, to probe the allegation that cross-dresser Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, spent his six-months jail term in a private apartment and not in a custodial center, has dismissed the claim.   Uju Agomoh who is the Executive Director and founder of Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) …