The fate of a five-year-old boy starved to death by his mother, who had a history of drug abuse, could have been different had social workers noticed he was “just skin and bones”, a Hong Kong judge lamented in her ruling. Just three months before the boy died in September 2022, a worker from the…
A Hong Kong appellate court has quashed the murder conviction of a jobless man who allegedly beat his girlfriend to death and hid her body under a mattress seven years ago, ruling that the trial judge had not properly directed the jury to fully consider the alleged perpetrator’s violent personality traits. The Court of Appeal…
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new video loaded: Former Olympian Arrested on Drug Trafficking and Murder Charges transcript Back transcript Former Olympian Arrested on Drug Trafficking and Murder Charges F.B.I. agents arrested Ryan Wedding, a former Olympic snowboarder, in Mexico on Thursday. Mr. Wedding is accused of smuggling cocaine into the United States and hiring a hitman to kill an…
Hong Kong police have arrested a man who brandished a knife in an apparently disoriented state near a McDonald’s in Tsuen Wan, just two days after officers shot dead another blade-wielding attacker elsewhere in the city. Police said they received a report at 8.42am from a passer-by that a man was seen holding a knife…