Tag Archives: Victim

A British man who allegedly tried to drown his daughter-in-law in a holiday swimming pool in Florida has been charged by police. Mark Raymond Gibbon, 62, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, allegedly held the 33-year-old underwater repeatedly after they argued about his grandchildren. He allegedly only stopped when a pair of sisters …

One person has died as France’s biggest wildfire this summer sweeps through a southern region, forcing tourists and residents to flee. Officials called the scenes “hellish” after the blaze broke out in Ribaute in the region of Aude, close to the border with Spain. The victim died in their home …

A man who was shot dead in north-east London has been named by police. Erdal Ozmen, 45, was found with gunshot injuries on Dynevor Road in Stoke Newington at about 00:20 BST on Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Met Police said the motive for the killing …

A military base in the US state of Georgia is on lockdown as officials search for an active shooter. A Facebook post from the military base said the site was locked down at 11:04 EST (16:04 GMT) and said “casualties have been reported”. It is unclear how many people have …

Watch: “This is barbaric” – Protesters weigh in on Byron Black’s execution as victim’s’family celebrates The US state of Tennessee has executed an inmate despite concerns that a heart implant would shock him back to life, potentially causing extreme pain during the lethal injection. Byron Black, 69, convicted of a …

Watch: “This is barbaric” – Protesters weigh in on Byron Black’s execution as victim’s’family celebrates The US state of Tennessee has executed an inmate despite concerns that a heart implant would shock him back to life, potentially causing extreme pain during the lethal injection. Byron Black, 69, convicted of a …

Ghanaian authorities have taken possession of a luxury car allegedly linked to proceeds of crime from popular musician Charles Nii Armah, better known as Shatta Wale, following a request from the US. The 2019 Lamborghini Urus is allegedly tied to the criminal enterprise of Ghanaian Nana Kwabena Amuah, who is …

David Pittam BBC News, East Midlands Adele Cook Mrs Cook said her husband “wanted to be fun all the time” The widow of a man who was stabbed to death is campaigning to fund bleed kits in the town where he was killed. James Cook, 40, was pronounced dead at …

WhatsApp says it has taken down 6.8 million accounts linked to scammers targeting people around the world in the first half of this year. Many were tied to scam centres run by organised criminals in South East Asia, who often used forced labour in their operations, the Meta-owned messaging platform …

American Photo Archive The US Coast Guard has determined the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible that killed all five people on board was “preventable”, citing the company’s “critically flawed” safety practices. A damning 335-page report from Coast Guard investigators states that OceanGate, the company that owned and operated the Titan, …

A man suspected in the targeted killing of four family members and leaving their baby abandoned in front of a stranger’s home has been arrested in rural Tennessee. The weeklong manhunt for Austin Robert Drummond ended after local authorities instituted an early morning shelter-in-place for residents near Jackson after he …

Warwickshire Police has responded to a claim it held back information over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl in Nuneaton, saying officers “did not and will not cover up such criminality”. County council leader George Finch had alleged two men charged in connection with the rape were asylum seekers …

A rapist has been jailed for seven years after carrying out an attack on a woman in her own home. A judge at the High Court in Edinburgh told Robert McGregor his desire to humiliate and degrade the victim during the attack on 22 August 2020 was obvious. Lord Young, …

BBC The man was pronounced dead at the scene on Dynevor Road in Stoke Newington A man has been killed in a shooting in north-east London. The 45-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene on Dynevor Road in Stoke Newington at about 00:20 BST on Tuesday. The area has …

Nineteen people have gone on trial under strict security in Moscow, accused of taking part in last year’s concert hall massacre in the city that killed 149 people and wounded more than 600. Four gunmen burst into the Crocus City Hall on 22 March and fatally shot people who were …

A new commissioner for victims and survivors in Northern Ireland has been appointed. The first minister and deputy first minister said Joe McVey would take up the post on 6 October for four years. Mr McVey, a former chief executive of Brain Injury Matters (NI), was awarded an OBE for …

Louise Fewster BBC Yorkshire & Lincolnshire Investigations PA Media Chris Brain is on trial at Inner London Crown Court A former priest accused of abusing his role as the head of a cult church group to sexually assault 13 women has said he led “on consensus” and denied manipulation. Chris …

Throughout July, as FBI agents continued to scour the Mississippi swampland looking for the three missing civil rights activists, they repeatedly came across the remains of other black murder victims. One of these was the body of 14-year-old Herbert Oarsby, who was discovered wearing a Core T-shirt. Charles Eddie Moore, …

The financial regulator’s proposed redress scheme for car finance mis-selling is “completely impractical”, the trade body for the car finance industry has said. Stephen Hadrill of the Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) told the BBC there was concern that the redress scheme would cover loans from as far back as …

Some families in Oxfordshire are not able to afford basic toiletries despite working full-time jobs, a charity leader has warned. Community organisation Jungle, based in Oxford, gives monthly provisions of hygiene essentials like toilet paper and sanitary towels to people struggling with costs. That includes three families working full-time at …