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Apr

2024

Moroccan man guilty of murdering man in UK in revenge for Gaza

A Moroccan man who stabbed to death a passer-by in the street in northeast England in what he later told police was revenge for Israeli action in Gaza was found guilty of murder. Ahmed Alid, 45, who had sought asylum in Britain, killed his 70-year-old victim after approaching him from behind on a road in Hartlepool in the early hours of October 15 last year, having previously attacked his housemate with two knives, prosecutors said. After his arrest, he told detectives he had committed the acts because of the conflict in Gaza, and in revenge for Israel killing innocent children,…

Nov

2023

By ANANDA TERESIA and GAYATRI SUROYO

Indonesian judge found guilty of ethical violations over ruling that favoured president’s son

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A judicial panel in Indonesia found the Constitutional Court's chief justice guilty of a conflict of interest over his part in a ruling that allowed President Joko Widodo's son to run for the vice presidency. Anwar Usman, who is the president's brother-in-law, was ordered to step down as the court's senior judge for his failure to recuse himself from a case in which the outcome benefited his nephew, Gibran Rakabuming Raka. Gibran is Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto's running mate for the February 14 election. The ethics panel, which cannot change the outcome of the case, said Anwar could remain one of the…

Nov

2023

By STEVE GORMAN

California boat captain guilty of ‘seaman’s manslaughter’ in fire deaths of 34 people

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THE captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people on board in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was found guilty of a federal charge of seaman's manslaughter. Jerry Boylan, 70, was convicted by a U.S. District Court jury in Los Angeles on a single charged count of "misconduct or neglect of a ship officer" under a federal homicide statute dating from steamboat accidents in the early 1800s. The felony conviction, capping a 10-day trial, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, according to Thom Mrozek,…

Oct

2023

By The African Mirror

London woman guilty of aiding Kenyan female genital mutilation

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A woman from London has been found guilty of aiding the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a young girl in Kenya, becoming the first person to be convicted in England of committing the crime overseas, British prosecutors said. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said police launched an investigation after the victim told a teacher in 2018 that she had been subjected to FGM in the African country years earlier as a young child. Detectives found that Amina Noor, 39, was responsible for taking the girl to Kenya where the FGM was carried out by a Kenyan woman. Noor said in…

Oct

2023

By ARLETTE BASHIZI

Congo colonel found guilty of murder for role in Goma massacre in August

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A Congolese colonel has been found guilty of murder and other crimes related to the August killing of 56 people during an army crackdown on anti-U.N. demonstrations in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local court said. Colonel Mike Mikombe, who was head of the Republican Guard unit in the city of Goma, where the incident took place, was one of six soldiers on trial. He was sentenced to death, but the death penalty is no longer applied in Congo and is generally commuted to life imprisonment. His lawyer, Serge Lukanga, said he would appeal the decision. Three other…

Mar

2023

By The African Mirror

Nigerian senator guilty of human trafficking

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WILLIAM JAMES A wealthy Nigerian politician and his wife were convicted of trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously-ill daughter. Prosecutors said Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, had brought the man to London in February last year with the offer of a few thousand dollars for his organ and the promise of work in Britain. Ekweremadu, an opposition senator in the southern Nigerian state of Enugu and also a former deputy senate president, and his wife were significant figures in Nigerian society with power, influence,…