US police used religion and the Bible to badger a confession out of a South African man accused of murdering four people in the United States, according to court papers. In papers submitted to the Supreme Court of New Mexico, Muziwokuthula Madondo’s lawyers have accused law enforcement officers of ignoring[…]
Convicted killer Thandi Maqubela will be sentenced in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday, the SABC reported. During closing arguments in sentencing proceedings on Thursday, the State asked the court to hand down a long sentence, the national broadcaster reported. Maqubela’s husband, acting judge Patrick Maqubela, who worked in[…]
Even in a country wracked by violence for decades, the killing of a senior Afghan Sufi religious leader and 10 other men stands out from the statistics: shot in the backs of their heads while bowed in prayer, in a ruthless and apparently well-planned operation. The attack Saturday night has[…]
Lawyers for paralympian Oscar Pistorius will on Friday appeal the court decision allowing the State to appeal his culpable homicide conviction. Judge Thokozile Masipa granted the State’s application to appeal Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction, but dismissed its application to appeal his five-year jail sentence. The State wants him to be[…]
The Mitchell’s Plain Community Police Forum (CPF) says the Tafelsig community is angered by the horrific murder of an elderly resident and fears the incident will lead to mob justice. 61 year old Gafsa Roberts was allegedly killed by her son after she was beaten to death with a hammer.[…]
A 21 year old man is set to appear in the Mitchell’s plain magistrate’s court on Wednesday, following the murder of his 61 year old mother in Tafelsig on Sunday evening. The accused allegedly killed his mother and disposed of her remains in the refuse bin. The murder has sparked[…]
A meeting to determine if an inquest into the death of Anni Dewani will be reopened has been postponed for another month, the Sunday Independent reported. The meeting, which was to be held in London this week, was postponed due to the unavailability of the parties involved, Anni’s uncle Ashok[…]
Male violence against women happens so often in Turkey that it tends to elicit among the general public little more than a frown and a shaking of the head. Not this time. Maybe it was the sheer brutality of the attack, or the fact that the victim was so young[…]
Turkish women and activists have taken to the streets in nationwide protests, and started a wildly-successful Twitter campaign, after the murder of a 20-year-old student in an alleged attempted rape. Thousands of women rallied across the country over the weekend, and a campaign supported by local celebrities and got widespread[…]
The aggrieved family of slain Toufiq Joseph say they are disappointed in the justice system. Toufiq’s father, Ebrahim Joseph said the National Prosecuting Authority has failed to clearly communicate when murder suspect, David Forbes was to appear in court for his trial. Upon arrival at court on Thursday morning, Ebrahim[…]
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