Ghetts has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for causing the death of a student in a hit-and-run crash in northeast London. The grime star, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, failed to stop after his BMW struck Nepalese national Yubin Tamang, 20, last October. The 41-year-old admitted causing death by dangerous driving. At […]
Nigerian student has been sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment in the Republic of Ireland for forcing his former girlfriend to take abortion pills, leading to the unlawful termination of her pregnancy. The convict, Adeleke Adelani, pleaded guilty to causing the unlawful termination of a foetus on February 14, 2020, at his residence in Letterkenny, County
Five residents of Jigawa State have been convicted and sentenced to one year imprisonment each for illegally felling trees in violation of the state’s climate change law. The judgment was delivered on Wednesday by the Jigawa State Environmental Court sitting in Dutse. The presiding magistrate, Hassan Yau, ruled that the defendants contravened the provisions of
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A Magistrates’ Court in Jos on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year-old trader, Garba Audu, to six months imprisonment for stealing railway steel bar. Delivering judgment, Magistrate Tapmwa Gotep, sentenced Audu after he pleaded guilty. Gotep however gave the convict an option of N10,000 fine. The magistrate ordered that the iron bars should be returned to the railway
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Three Baltimore men who were wrongly imprisoned for 36 years in Maryland, United States have been set free after a review of the murder case they were prosecuted for. The three men identified as Alfred Chestnut, Ransom Watkins and Andrew Stewart, were reportedly teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison in 1984. They were accused
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A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Thursday sentenced a 35-year-old man, Daniel Bidem, to three-month imprisonment for stealing his girlfriend’s cell phone valued at N47,000. Bidem, of Garki II, Abuja, was arraigned on one count of stealing. The convict was sentenced after he pleaded guilty to the offence and begged for leniency. The
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An Abuja Grade 1 Area Court in Karmo, on Friday, sentenced a 20-year-old man, Daniel Joseph, to six months imprisonment for stealing Armoured cable in Church. The Judge, Abubakar Sadiq, sentenced Joseph after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge. The convict was arraigned on a three-count charge of criminal trespass, mischief, and stealing. Sadiq,
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The disgraced long-time USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was sentenced on Wednesday to up to 175 years in prison for molesting young female gymnasts, following days of wrenching testimony in a Michigan courtroom from about 160 of his victims, including Olympic gold medalists. “I just signed your death warrant,” Ingham County Circuit Court Judge
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Fawaz Olanrewaju Animasaun, a 27-year-old Nigerian has been ordered to repay the sum of $930 million he obtained illegally through bank fraud and identity theft. It was reported that he would spend the next two years behind bars for defrauding East Texans and others out of nearly $1 million. It will be recalled that the
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