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The investigation into a deadly fire at a Hong Kong housing estate has centred on the use of flammable material in the scaffolding that covered the residential blocks, officials said on Thursday. Police arrested three men from the maintenance firm responsible for the buildings on suspicion of manslaughter, while the city’s anti-graft agency said it…
A British woman from an aristocratic family and her convicted rapist partner face jail Monday over the manslaughter of their newborn daughter who died while they were living off-grid in freezing temperatures. Constance Marten, 38, and Mark Gordon, 51, were arrested after a seven-week police hunt in January and February 2023 during which they spent…
Two young siblings in southwestern China tragically lost their lives after being stung hundreds of times by wasps, leading to the detention of the farmer raising the bees on charges of negligent homicide. This shocking event occurred on June 28 in a village in Muding county, Yunnan province, where a seven-year-old boy and his two-year-old…
A second airman in a month at a U.S. Air Force base in Wyoming stands accused of involuntary manslaughter for a shooting death. F.E. Warren Air Force Base Airman First Class Jadan Orr, 20, remained jailed on Monday after he allegedly shot a man in a Cheyenne apartment early Saturday, according to police and sheriff’s…
An elderly Hong Kong man has been jailed for four years and eight months for strangling his daughter to death three years ago after being provoked into committing the act. The High Court on Wednesday sentenced security guard Chan Kwai-sang to a term close to the period he had spent in custody, allowing for his…
The stormy relationship between Doug and Ashley Benefield, the star-crossed couple at the heart of the notorious “Black Swan” murder case, began and ended with a .45 caliber gun, according to what was revealed publicly over the years. During testimony at Ashley Benefield’s murder trial in July 2024, she said that the evening she met…
This story previously aired on Sept. 7, 2024. It was updated on July 26, 2025. After nearly four years, the trial of Ashley Benefield, the former ballerina charged with second-degree murder for shooting her estranged husband Doug, began in the summer of 2024. In the lead-up to the trial, a small group appeared near the…
A 27-year-old Hong Kong woman has admitted killing her one-year-old daughter in a murder-suicide attempt three years ago, partly out of financial stress. The High Court on Friday recorded a guilty plea to manslaughter from Liu Ka-ki after prosecutors agreed to reduce her original charge of murder in light of psychiatric evidence that suggested the…
A Hong Kong doctor involved in a fatal liposuction procedure in a beauty centre in 2014 has won an appeal against her manslaughter conviction. The Court of Appeal on Thursday cleared Dr Vanessa Kwan Hau-chi of the charge and set aside her six-year jail sentence, after her lawyer argued that the trial judge, in her…