Mackenzie’s followers believed he was “Jesus’s mouthpiece”, Justice Mochache said as she delivered her eight-hour judgement last month. Those who opposed Mackenzie’s teachings were beaten to death. One of his co-accused said he had told his followers that anyone who “resisted the directive to fast must be forced to go to heaven through kicks and…
One by one, they spoke of the psychological trauma they endured after the Alexander brothers raped them, and their desire for the shame they had felt to instead fall on the defendants. Many asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence of life in prison for each brother. Maya Miller told the court that after…
Two former luxury real estate brokers and their brother are scheduled to be sentenced in a New York City courtroom Tuesday, seven months after they were convicted of drugging and raping women in a sex trafficking ring. Federal prosecutors are seeking life sentences for Oren and Alon Alexander, a pair of former powerful real estate…
A fifth man was discharged and acquitted by the court due to insufficient evidence against him.
Fingerprints lifted from the scene ultimately became the undoing of the perpetrator. A 43-year-old former cellphone tower technician has been convicted of damaging essential infrastructure and theft. In a statement, the South African Police Service (SAPS) says Free State provincial detectives and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) welcome the hefty sentencing, noting it highlights the…
MultiChoice is intensifying its fight against DStv pirates. A series of enforcement actions led by MultiChoice and its subsidiary Irdeto, in partnership with South African law enforcement authorities, has resulted in arrests, seizures and multiple court convictions linked to illegal internet streaming operations in the Western Cape. In a statement, the DStv operator says the…
Ex-MLB pitcher Dan Serafini was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2021 murder of his father-in-law and attempted murder of his mother-in-law. In a Placer County, California courtroom, the jury concluded that Serafini’s actions “were deliberate and premeditated” when he shot his in-laws Robert Gary Spohr and Wendy…
The man responsible for the 2023 death of the original singer of the band formerly known as the Dixie Chicks in a fatal crash in Texas has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Laura Lynch, the 65-year-old co-founder of the band now known as “The Chicks,” died just days before Christmas after a collision…
Listen to this article | 3 mins info A court in Hong Kong has sentenced pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai to 20 years in jail following his conviction under a sweeping national security law imposed by Beijing. A summary document by the court on Monday said 18 years of Lai’s sentence should be served consecutively to the…
More than 240 members of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang, were sentenced to hundreds of years in prison in El Salvador. In a post on social media, the Central American country’s attorney general’s office said that 248 members of the gang had received “exemplary sentences” for 42 homicides and 42 disappearances, among other…
