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No! Couple faces murder charge after starving daughter died from dehydration and malnutrition

A couple has been charged with murder after their malnourished five-year-old daughter died in hospital weighing half a stone. Jerrail Mickens, 31, and Porscha Mickens, 29, who live near Buford, Georgia, US took their daughter Kylie Mickens to hospital on June 7. Staff at Northeast Georgia Medical Center Braselton contacted the...

Oh! 90-year-old widow reportedly raped in India

A 90-year-old widow in India was allegedly gang-raped by two men who stormed into her house at night, a new report by the Times of India has revealed. According to the report, two men came into her house at night on October 24 and sexually attacked the yet to be named...

A Nigerian man was arrested in India for allegedly supplying cocaine and MDMA drugs to peddlers

Police in Raipur on Friday, October 30, arrested a Nigerian man from Mumbai and brought him to Chhattisgarh on charges of supplying cocaine and psychoactive drug MDMA to peddlers. The accused identified as Patrick Ubeke Bako, 38,  was arrested for alleged involvement in supplying cocaine and MDMA to Raipur, Bilaspur and...

A teenage Jihadist beheads teacher for sharing cartoons about Prophet Muhammad

A teenage jihadist who beheaded a teacher last week in France was in contact with the parent behind an online hate campaign against the teacher, police on Tuesday October 20 revealed. The teacher, Samuel Paty, 47, (pictured above) was beheaded outside his school near Paris after showing pupils cartoons of...

Man sentenced to 50 years for raping and impregnating his 14-year-old biological daughter

A High Court in Jinja, Uganda on Tuesday, October 27, sentenced a man to 50 years in prison for defiling and impregnating his 14-year-old biological daughter. Amuza Kamulya, from Jinja District, pleaded guilty after his daughter and his wife showed up in court to testify against him. He had denied the...

A violent Brazilian prisoner nicknamed Lucifer is accused of murdering 48 other inmates during his 25 years behind bars

A Brazilian prisoner nicknamed 'Lucifer' has been accused of murdering 48 other inmates during his 25 years behind bars. Marcos Paulo da Silva, a thief-turned-serial killer was first jailed for petty theft at the age of 18 in 1995, before he became a vicious killer. He is known to cut...

The World’s Youngest Serial Killer Was Arrested At Age 8

Amarjeet Sada became known as the world's youngest serial killer after he killed for the first time at age 7 and continued killing afterwards. He had allegedly killed three people by the age of eight, two of whom were related to him. The young boy from the Begusaray district in Bihar, India...

Mesut Ozil’s agent slams Mikel Arteta after he was omitted from premier league

Dr Erkut Sogut, agent to Arsenal star footballer Mesut Ozil, has slammed the football club over its treatment of his client, after Ozil who earns a staggering £350,000 per week salary was omitted from their Premier league and Europa league squads for the season meaning he is only eligible...

12 year old rapper, Lil Rodney sentenced to 7 years for shooting 1-year-old baby (video)

A Texas judge has sentenced a juvenile Crips gang member who removed his ankle monitor and shot a 1-year-old baby. Judge Kim sentenced the 12-year-old nicknamed Lil Rodneyy to 7 years in a juvenile detention centre. A video of a Zoom detention hearing held back in September 2020 has now been...

Dismissed NDLEA official arrested with 254kg of Mariajuna in Niger State

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Niger State Command, has arrested a dismissed staff of the agency, with 254kg of dried weed suspected to be cannabis sativa. The Acting Commander of the agency in the state, Aloye Oludare, who disclosed this to newsmen in Minna on Monday, said that...

Man faces murder charge after fatally shooting wife

A Garland man is facing a murder charge in the deadly shooting of his wife.  Police said the shooting happened on Sunday, October 20, at about 5:34 p.m. in the 1700 block of Oates Drive in Mesquite, just east of Interstate Loop 635 and north of Interstate 30. When officers responded...

2 adults charged with murder after forcing 8 year old girl to jump on trampoline as punishment

Two people in Texas, USA, have been charged with capital murder after forcing an 8-year-old girl to jump on a trampoline under extreme heat as punishment, leading to her death. According to US police who released a press statement on Thursday, October 15, the young girl died of dehydration on...

Lesbian prophetess who sexually assaulted a female congregant sentenced to 11 years in prison

Juliet Masakanire, the Zimbabwean Prophetess accused of sexually assaulting a female congregant has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being found guilty of the charges levelled against her.  The founder of Pray Deliverance and Testimony Ministries International who appeared before Gweru Regional magistrate Mrs. Pathekhile Msipa facing two counts of...

Grandfather charged for dropping his 18-month-old granddaughter from a 150ft cruise ship

A grandfather accused of dropping his 18-month-old granddaughter from the 11th-story window of a cruise ship in Puerto Rico last year has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. In July 2019, 18-month-old Chloe Wiegand reportedly slipped from her grandfather Salvatore “Sam” Anello’s grasp and fell around 115ft from the children’s play...

2 Indians and a Nigerian sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for drug possession

A special court for exclusive trial of cases under NDPS act in Chennai has convicted aNigerian national, his two Indian accomplices and sentenced them to 10 years rigorous imprisonment for the possession of narcotic substances, Times of India. According to Times of India, the three accused, Chukwu Simon Obinna, 30, K...

Young mum tosses baby outside window after giving birth in bathtub

A mother from Queens, New York who threw her newborn son out a window told police she “panicked” after giving birth at home, then took a shower and fell asleep as her infant was left lying in a cold alley, prosecutors allege. Sabita Dookram, 23, was arraigned Tuesday , October...

“Daddy would make me watch porn and then do it with me” – 13-year-old girl narrates years of sexual abuse

A 13-year-old girl, Wednesday, October 14, alleged that her aunt’s husband, who she calls ‘Daddy’, would play pornographic videos for her to watch then rape her. She alleged he had been abusing her sexually in his shop and at their apartment on Surulere Street, Ojo area of Lagos, with a...

Wife colluded with mum to allegedly feed rapper husband Andy Cartwright’s ‘body to rats, drink his blood and have sex with corpse’ after dismembering...

A murder suspect, Marina Kokhal, 36, accused of killing her rapper husband, Andy Cartwright, colluded with her mother to dismember his body, Russian police investigators now allege. According to investigators in Russia, Marina allegedly confessed to cutting up the corpse of her husband, but claims he died of natural causes....

White man wore blackface and fake beard as disguise before allegedly killing the mother of his child

A man accused of killing the mother of his 1-year-old daughter allegedly disguised himself by wearing blackface and fake beard before committing the crime. 33-year-old Andrew Charles Beard from Texas, surrendered himself to Carrollton police this week after a warrant had been issued for his arrest. According to the Carrollton Leader, Alyssa...

Nigerian, Sierra Leonean and Cambodian lady arrested over a drug deal

A Nigerian and a Sierra Leone national have been arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for attempting to smuggle drugs into Australia. The duo identified as Ogadimma Igwe Linus, 39 and Conth Abdul, a 29-year-old man from Sierra Leone, were arrested alongside a Cambodian woman, Han Lis, 28. It was gathered that on October 6,...

Outrage as girl, 6, dies after being kidnapped and raped in India

A six-year-old girl has died in hospital after being kidnapped and raped, sparking furious protests. The victim was attacked in the city of Iglas in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in September, 2020. She was treated at a hospital in Delhi but tragically passed away today, October 6. The distraught...

Cross-dresser found guilty for killing his mother

A cross-dresser has been found guilty of stabbing his mother to death and cutting off her head at their family home in Woking, Surrey, England. Songwriter Philip Tarver, 47, took cocaine and drank beer and vodka before he attacked 86-year-old Angela Tarver with an ornamental sword, the Old Bailey heard. His 83-year-old father Colin...

Nigerian man bags 40 years in UK jail for double murder

A Nigerian man has been jailed for 40 years in the UK for murdering a mother-of-nine and her nephew in north London in September 2016. 28-year-old Obinna Ezeoke was sentenced on Thursday, October 1, 2020. Obina Ezeoke was convicted in September 2020 after an unprecedented five trials in four years for shooting dead 53-year-old Annie...

A six-man robbery gang attacked a bank in Iyin-Ekiti

A six-man robbery gang attacked a bank in Iyin-Ekiti in Irepodun/Ifelodun local government area of Ekiti state today Friday, October 2, carting away millions of Naira. According to reports, the robbers who were armed with sophisticated weapons stormed the bank around 3.30pm and blasted the security doors with an explosive device suspected to be...

A lady dies two weeks after horrific gang-rape attack by 4 India men

A 20-year-old woman has died two weeks after a horrific gang-rape by four men that left her paralysed with a broken spine in India.  The men reportedly attacked the woman near her home in the Hathras region, around 60 miles from Delhi, on September 14. The victim had been cutting...

Two pastors detained for allegedly raping a Youth Corper in Rivers State

The police in Rivers State have arrested two pastors identified as Austin Emmanuel and Peter Davies, for allegedly raping a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The suspects who are currently being detained at the State Criminal and Intelligence Department SCID, allegedly raped the 27-year-old corps member in Obio/Akpor...

SA: A man sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a child

A 31-year-old shopkeeper Tashume "Happy" Bambore was on Thursday, September 17, sentenced to life in prison for raping a 5-year-old girl who went to his store to buy ice lollies and biscuits in Phakamisa, outside King William's Town. Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson Captain Khaya Tonjeni, said Bambore lured the girl...

Man charged with murder after dismembering his girlfriend

A Kentucky man has been charged in connection with the gruesome murder of his girlfriend who was dismembered before her body parts were hauled in suitcases all the way to south suburban Markham. Police said Melvin Martin Jr., 30, who was initially charged as a fugitive took his girlfriend’s remains on...

Mother jailed for 155 years for sexually abusing a child

An incestuous mother who was jailed for 155 years for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl in a bath has admitted further child sex charges. Elizabeth Haway, 43, was convicted of seven sexual assault charges and incest at a court in Bluefield, West Virginia, in December 2019 and was sentenced to...

Brother, charged with murder for stabbing his brother to death

A 33-year-old man has been charged with the murder of his own brother in the UK.  Joseph Garmson, 31, died after being stabbed in the leg during a row at his sibling's bungalow in Birmingham on Monday night, September 14.  Neighbours in Lutley Grove, in the Bartley Green suburb of the...

Cambodia: Redeemed Pastor and family and other church members arrested for Fraud (photos)

A pastor of the Redeemed Christian church of God, his wife and church members has been reportedly arrested for fraud in Cambodia. According to Cne News, they were arrested by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court for fraud and money laundering after the force of the Department of Technology Crimes of...

A lady goes to prison after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim £925,000

22-year-old Julija Adlesic from Ljubljana in Slovenia has bagged a three year jail sentence after deliberately sawing off her hand to claim a £925,000 insurance payout.  Adlesic reportedly hatched the macabre plot with her boyfriend and arrived the hospital when they knew the hand could not be reattached. Adlesic told hospital authorities that she...

A Nigerian arrested with 1.4 kg of drugs in India, blames ‘poverty’

A 42-year-old Nigerian national was arrested for allegedly carrying 1.4 kilogram of amphetamine, a high-quality drug worth Rs 2 crore in Dwarka area of Delhi, India. The accused who revealed his name as Daman was paraded at Mohan Garden Police Station on Thursday, September 10. According to a police officer, on...

Mexican baron, El Chapo reveals that he fathered 23 children

Mexican drug lord, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán admitted that the only addiction he ever suffered from was 'women' before revealing that he is a father of 23 children. The revelations were made during a tell-all interview with renowned criminologist Mónica Ramírez Cano before Mexico extradited him to the US.  Ramírez Cano, who posted...

A teacher who allegedly had s3x with a minor nabbed through her google search

A 35-year-old teacher identified as Kandice Barber is currently facing trial for allegedly having sex with her 15-year-old student.  Following her arraignment in court, the teacher from Wendover, Buckinghamshire, denied the child sex offences and also told jurors the boy had pestered her after she gave him her phone number so he...

Indian actress, arrested for sourcing for drugs for ex-boyfriend

Bollywood actress, Rhea Chakraborty was arrested on Tuesday September 8, after allegedly confessing to being an "active member of a drug syndicate" and also being involved in the procurement of drugs for Sushant Singh Rajput, an actor who died from drug related incident.  The actress who was arrested by India's Narcotics Control Bureau, dated late Sushant Singh...

2 Nigerians arrested for defrauding a German company of 14.7m euros

The Cybercrime Unit of the Nigeria Police Force, INTERPOL, National Central Bureau, Abuja has arrested two (2) suspects for their complicity in a major multi-million Euro scam touching on the procurement of COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). A statement released by the spokesperson of the Nigerian Police Force, Frank Mba...

Man kills Burger King employee after order takes too long

A man has been accused of shooting and killing a Florida fast-food employee after his order took too long. WKMG reported that a woman was upset that her Burger King order took too long. She then called her boyfriend to come to the restaurant to deal with one of the...

Busted: Prison guard smuggled drugs in her underwear(photos)

A former prison guard who smuggled drugs into jail in her underwear has been jailed for three years. 27-year-old Hannah Gaves from Bristol was stopped and searched while on her way to work at Erlestoke Prison, Wiltshire on the 27th of January last year. Officials found Cocaine concealed in her underwear...

New Zealand’s Christchurch mosque terrorist sentenced

Brenton Tarrant, the 29 year old far-right terrorist who killed 51 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting in modern history, has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The sentence, which is the first type of sentence to be handed down in the country's courts, was passed...

Zimbabwe’s most wanted armed robber arrested

Zimbabwe's most wanted armed robber, Musa Taj Abdul has been arrested after 20 years of terror.  The suspect has been on the run for over two decades and was arrested while in the company of six other accomplices in the border town of Beitbridge on Monday night. Abdul who has been on the police wanted...

Hushpuppi’s Instagram posts prompted secret investigation that led to his arrest

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has explained how Huspuppi's Instagram posts prompted a secret investigation that led to his arrest. His showy Instagram posts raised suspicion and caused the FBI to set their sights on him. In one of such posts, Hushpuppi wrote: "Started out my day having sushi down...

Security man caught pants down defiling girl, 8, (photos)

A security man was allegedly caught pants down by residents, defiling an 8-year-old girl in Ibusa, Asaba, Delta State. The man was reportedly caught in the act on Saturday, August 22nd,2020, in a building under construction. The suspect was stripped, tied up and handed over to the police for further investigation. According to reports, the victim’s parents, who...

Nehemiah is now to be charged for culpable homicide and criminal conspiracy

Nehemiah Adejor, the prime suspect who drove the car that killed Nigeria’s first female fighter helicopter, Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile, is now to be charged for culpable homicide and criminal conspiracy.  This is coming after two of the three suspects arrested in connection to the Air Force officer's death, were set free by...

Outrage as 6-year-old girl is raped and killed in Pakistan (graphic photo)

The brutal death of a 6-year-old girl who was raped, tortured and bludgeoned with a stone before her body was dumped in a sack in Pakistan, has sparked outrage.  The child, named Seema left her home to go outside and play in the city of Nowshera, in the north of the...

Mompha files N5m lawsuit against EFCC over his re-arrest

Social media celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha has instituted a N5 million lawsuit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC over his recent arrest. We had earlier reported that Mompha was re-arrested last Friday, August 14 when he went to the EFCC office in Ikoyi, Lagos to reclaim his five...

Mompha: EFCC re-arrests him over fresh charge

Internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha aka Mompha, who is facing money laundering charges before the Federal High Court, has been re-arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC. Punch reports that Mompha was re-arrested last Friday, August 14 when he went to the EFCC office in Ikoyi, Lagos to reclaim...

Police arrest suspected fraudsters who specialize in cloning sim cards

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a syndicate that specialises in the cloning of Subscriber Identification Module cards better known as SIM cards of prominent deceased persons and emptying their bank accounts in connivance with some criminal bank officials. The syndicate were arrested after their leader, Osita Nwafor alias Ossy, was nabbed...

Nigerian man charged in Uganda after allegedly being in possession of cocaine

A Nigerian man who was arrested in Uganda after allegedly being in possession of 320grammes of cocaine valued at sh244.4m (N905m), has been charged and remanded in prison. 37-year-old Madu Chima was arrested alongside one Ibanda Abubakali, 31, a security guard attached to Pinnacle Security Limited. Appearing before Grade One Magistrate Abert...

Police release photo of man who locked up his 30-year-old son for 7 years (photos)

The Kano state police command have released the photo of the man who locked up and starved his biological son, Ahmed Aminu, 30, for seven years in Kano State. A statement from the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said Aminu who is a resident of Farawa Quarters,...

Son, 55, is jailed for life for stabbing his father, 76, to death over internet speed

A man has been jailed for life for stabbing his father to death in an argument over their broadband speed connection. Stephen Gallagher, 55, attacked 76-year-old Thomas multiple times with a knife, telling him to “die” as he pleaded for his life, Swansea Crown Court heard on Monday August 10. The incident...

Self-acclaimed prophet who allegedly swindles and rapes ladies

The Lagos state police command has arrested a self-acclaimed prophet, Williams Benard, who allegedly specializes in swindling ladies in search of a life partner on social media. According to Guardian, the suspect, Williams Benard, who operated as Evans Joris, a pseudo name on his Facebook account, was arrested by the Isheri-Oshun Police...

Lord’s Chosen Pastor allegedly impregnated two underaged sisters

A minister in the Lord's Chosen Church has been accused of raping two underaged sisters for years and finally impregnating them under the guise of casting out badluck from them. Pastor Nduka Anyanwu, who ministers in the Lord's Chosen Church, Canaan Land branch in Oshodi, allegedly impregnated the sisters aged...

Cat detained for smuggling drugs and SIM cards escapes

 A cat detained at Sri Lanka's main prison for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs and cell phone SIM cards, has escaped from custody.  The smuggling attempt was busted by the jail intelligence officials on Saturday August 1, at the high-security Welikada Prison. A police official said nearly two grams of heroin,...

Serial Fraudster Bags 53 Years For N17.1m Fraud

Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday July 29, 2020 sentenced a serial fraudster, Aliyu Zakari to 53 years imprisonment for N17.1million fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Lagos zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on six-count charges of obtaining...

17-year-old boy who ‘masterminded’ the massive Twitter hack arrested

Police have arrested three people involved in the recent Twitter Bitcoin hack that targeted the accounts of major public figures including Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, and many others. A British man and two Americans including a 17-year-old boy from Florida are all facing charges for...