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Indian police shot dead four men on Friday who were suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian near Hyderabad city, an action applauded by her family and many citizens outraged over sexual violence against women. However, some rights groups and politicians criticized the killings, saying they were concerned the judicial process had been sidestepped.
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By Onozure Dania The pastor in charge of The Life House Ministry located at Ifeoma Street, opposite Ojo Barracks, Ojo, Lagos, Pastor Benjamin Akinsanya 56, has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Igbosere, over alleged attempted murder of a female pastor. Akinsanya was docked before the court alongside two others for allegedly
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A 23-year-old man, Kevin Lusala, has been found guilty of the murder of 22-year-old Nigerian-born, Ayodeji Habeeb Afeez, who was lured to his death in Bromley, United Kingdom. Lusala of Eldred Drive, Orpington, was found guilty of fatally stabbing Azeez on November 4, 2018 in a car park at the rear of Grace Mews in
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Three men in Baltimore, United States, who spent 36 years in prison were found innocent on Monday, November 25, of the 1983 murder of a teenage boy who was shot dead over a jacket. Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were serving life sentences for the shooting of DeWitt Duckett, a 14-year-old student at
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A Florida woman frantically called 911 to report a dead body lying in her driveway over the weekend and was later charged for allegedly gunning down the 21-year-old victim and trying to cover up the crime. Yvonne Serrano, 51, insisted in the call Saturday around 6 a.m. that she didn’t know the victim and had
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The Ogun police command says it has arrested a 42-year-old woman, Temitope Akinola, for allegedly poisoning and killing her two-day-old granddaughter with a deadly insecticide, Sniper. The suspect, a resident of Isote area of Sagamu town, Sagamu Local Government Area of the state, was arrested on Nov. 21 by operatives of the command. The state
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A teenager who choked a man to death after meeting him on dating app Plenty of Fish had Googled ways to ‘kill and get away with it’, a court heard. Jamie Lee Dolheguy, now 20, invited Maulin Rathod, 24, to her address in Victoria, Melbourne, in July 2018 after a brief text exchange. While the
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By Ugochukwu Alaribe – Umuahia Tragedy struck in Aba, Abia State, yesterday when a man in his early 20s was stabbed to death by his brother over the ownership of a Media Music player, MP3. The suspect and victim, both aged 21, are natives of Ibeme Community in Obingwa council area of Abia State. Vanguard
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By Onozure Dania A Prosecution witness, Mr Kayode Makinde, yesterday told a Lagos High court sitting in Igbosere, of how he saw one of the two brothers Saheed Obadimeji and Ayodeji Obadimeji, who murdered his teenage son, was holding his head. He said they cut his head from the body and they were holding it
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Two murder suspects who escaped from a jail in California’s Monterey County Jail over the weekend shimmied through a 22-inch hole cut in a bathroom ceiling in a spot out of sight from deputies, authorities said. Officials have not yet found the suspects Santos Samuel Fonseca, 21, and Jonathan Salazar, 20, who were awaiting trial
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