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Mozambique president Nyusi has immunity in London ‘tuna bond’ case, court rules

Mozambique president Nyusi has immunity in London ‘tuna bond’ case, court rules

MOZAMBICAN President Filipe Nyusi cannot be sued in Britain over allegations he accepted unlawful payments as part of Mozambique's litigation over the decade-long "tuna bond" scandal, London's Court of Appeal ruled. Emirati-Lebanese shipbuilder Privinvest wanted to drag Nyusi into a $3.1-billion lawsuit brought by Mozambique, which accuses it of paying bribes to officials and Credit Suisse bankers. London's High Court has yet to rule on the case following a trial last year. Mozambique settled with Credit Suisse's new owner UBS on the eve of the trial in October. Shortly before last year's trial began, the High Court ruled that Nyusi had not been properly served…
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Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel mounts final appeal over murder conviction

Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel mounts final appeal over murder conviction

JAMAICAN dancehall star Vybz Kartel asked a London court to overturn his murder conviction, citing attempts to bribe his trial jury and the use of incriminating messages as reasons his conviction is unsafe. The musician, whose real name is Adidja Palmer, is one of Jamaica's most popular artists and has collaborated with performers such as Jay-Z and Rihanna. Kartel, 48, has been in jail in Jamaica since 2011 when he was arrested over the disappearance of his associate Clive "Lizard" Williams, whose body has never been found. After a 64-day trial in Kingston, one of the longest in Jamaican history,…
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Prince Harry challenges ‘unfair treatment’ over UK security in London court

Prince Harry challenges ‘unfair treatment’ over UK security in London court

PRINCE Harry has been subjected to unlawful, unfair and unjustifiable treatment by the British government over the decision to take away his police protection when he is in Britain, his lawyer told London's High Court. Harry, along with other senior royals, had received full publicly-funded security protection provided by the state before he decided to step back from his royal duties and move to California with his American wife Meghan in 2020. But the Home Office — the ministry responsible for policing, immigration and security — decided in February that year that Harry would cease to automatically receive personal police…
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Nigerian ex-oil minister faces bribery charges in London court

Nigerian ex-oil minister faces bribery charges in London court

A former Nigerian oil minister appeared in court in London charged with receiving bribes in the form of cash, luxury goods, flights on private jets and the use of high-end properties in Britain in return for awarding oil contracts. Diezani Alison-Madueke was Nigeria's minister for petroleum resources between 2010 and 2015, during the administration of former president Goodluck Jonathan. Nigeria's anti-corruption agency welcomed the British prosecution and said she was also wanted in her home country to face charges of money laundering. Appearing at Westminster Magistrates Court, Alison-Madueke spoke only to give her name, date of birth and address. She…
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Kevin Spacey tells London court sexual assault accusation is ‘absolute bollocks’

Kevin Spacey tells London court sexual assault accusation is ‘absolute bollocks’

KEVIN Spacey described an allegation he grabbed a man's crotch as "absolute bollocks", in combative exchanges with prosecutors at the Oscar-winning actor's sexual assault trial. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty at London's Southwark Crown Court to 12 charges of sexual offences allegedly committed against four men in Britain between 2001 and 2013. The offences allegedly took place at a time when he was mainly living and working in Britain, including from 2003 as artistic director of the Old Vic theatre in London. The four accusers have said Spacey aggressively groped them and, in the case of one complainant, performed oral sex…
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U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told

U.S. actor Kevin Spacey is a ‘sexual bully’, London court told

KEVIN Spacey is an aggressive "sexual bully" who assaults men and gets turned on when his unwanted advances provoke anger, a British prosecutor said at the start of the Oscar-winning U.S. actor's trial on sex offence charges. Spacey, 63, has pleaded not guilty to a dozen allegations of historic sex offences committed against four men, then aged in their 20s and 30s, which are said to have taken place between 2001 and 2013. His lawyer said the claims were "damned lies". Opening the prosecution case at London's Southwark Crown Court, lawyer Christine Agnew told the jury the "predatory" Spacey was…
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Prince Harry tells London court ‘vile’ press has blood on its hands

Prince Harry tells London court ‘vile’ press has blood on its hands

PRINCE Harry launched a fierce attack on the "vile" press, blaming tabloids for destroying his adolescence and later relationships, as he gave evidence against a tabloid publisher whose titles he accuses of unlawful activities. Harry, the fifth-in-line to the throne, became the first senior royal to appear in a witness box in more than a century in a lawsuit he and 100 others have brought against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN). They accuse the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, of widespread phone-hacking and unlawful information gathering between 1991 and 2011. The younger son of King Charles…
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Nigerian senator jailed for organ trafficking

Nigerian senator jailed for organ trafficking

A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a doctor were jailed by a London court for trafficking a street trader from Lagos to Britain to illegally harvest his kidney for a transplant for their seriously ill daughter. Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said Ike Ekweremadu had been sentenced to nine years and eight months in Britain's first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, while his wife Beatrice, 56, was sentenced to four years and six months. Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51 - described by prosecutors as a middleman - was jailed for 10 years, the CPS said. All three were convicted in March of conspiring…
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Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in London court

Nigerian communities file damages claim against Shell in London court

MORE than 11,000 Nigerians from the oil-producing Niger Delta have filed a compensation claim against Shell at the London High Court, the latest step in a case that will test whether multinationals can be held to account for the actions of overseas subsidiaries. In 2021, the UK Supreme Court allowed a group of 42,500 Nigerian farmers and fishermen to sue Shell in the English courts after years of oil spills had contaminated land and groundwater. The judges said at the time there was an arguable case that Shell, one of the world's biggest energy companies, was responsible because it exercised significant control over…
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London court allows appeal over UK’s Rwanda migrant plan

London court allows appeal over UK’s Rwanda migrant plan

LONDON’S High Court granted permission to a group of asylum seekers to appeal against a ruling that Britain’s plan to send migrants to Rwanda is lawful. Britain's interior ministry said it would defend its policy, which is a central part of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to tackle the record number of migrants arriving in small boats. The government says the plan will deter people smugglers, though it has been denounced by rights groups and even King Charles since it was announced in April. The first planned deportation flight was blocked in June last year by a last-minute ruling by the European Court of Human…
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