A Gaston County judge resentenced a 64-year-old man to seven to 20 years in prison for crimes committed more than four decades ago. Lester Barnett pleaded guilty to attempted armed robbery, safecracking, misdemeanor larceny, and felony assault in February 1981. He was originally sentenced to seven years to life in prison. But a judge has…
A senior assistant at Hong Kong’s Immigration Department has admitted to throttling his wife and five-year-old son multiple times in fits of rage over trivial quarrels. Kowloon City Court on Monday heard the guilty pleas from the 49-year-old defendant who assaulted his 39-year-old wife on three occasions between 2021 and 2024 at their home in…
The husband of a 28-year-old woman in China who was paralysed by a rare disease coaxed her to sell their home, then pocketed the proceeds before vanishing. “I would rather go to jail than return,” the man later told police. The case has captivated mainland social media after the Yangtze Evening News reported it. Before…
Sean “Diddy” Combs was visibly elated when a jury cleared him of sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a Manhattan courtroom last July. He slid from his chair to the floor at the defense table, kneeling as if in prayer, then rose to his feet, beaming. “Love you! Love you! Love you!” the rap entrepreneur…
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – A Mobile man who admitted to sending sexually-explicit images over the internet will go to prison for more than 17 years. A federal judge today set the sentence for Jason Jones, 46, who pleaded guilty in June to sexual exploitation of a minor and attempted coercion and enticement of a minor….
A woman in China has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for causing the intentional injury of her boyfriend after she banged his head against a wall, causing his death. The woman, identified by the alias Ajuan, said she beat her boyfriend after he asked to hurt him in a bid to save their…
A mother in China has sparked public outrage after it was revealed that she sold her two biological sons to fund tips for live-streaming hosts. The errant mother even went as far as deliberately conceiving the second child solely for the purpose of selling it. Huang, 26, is originally from Guangxi province in southern China…
LONDON — The British government will roll out the use of medication to suppress the sex drive of sex offenders, as part of a package of measures to reduce the risk of reoffending and alleviate the pressures on the prison system, which is running out of space. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Thursday that so-called chemical castration…