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Life sentence for ‘sadistic sexual killer’ for double felony murder

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Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email A “sadistic sexual killer” has been jailed for more than 25 years for murdering an escort – as his family finally saw justice three decades after being … Read more

Life sentence for drug-using parents who killed child on Christmas Day

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Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Parents who murdered their 10-month-old son just weeks after he returned to care for him have been sentenced to life in prison for his murder. Shannon Marsden … Read more

Belarus upholds 8-year prison sentence for newspaper journalist serving country’s Polish minority

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Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email Belarus’ Supreme Court on Friday sentenced a prominent journalist working for an influential newspaper serving the country’s sizeable Polish minority to eight years in prison. The decision … Read more

Senegal prosecutor urges 10-year sentence for opposition leader Sonko

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The trial of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges was adjourned early Wednesday, with prosecutors seeking a 10-year prison term in a case that has stoked tensions in the West African country. Sonko, a popular figure among Senegal’s vast population of young people, has called the trial the target of a political conspiracy. … Read more

Drug dealer whose sentence was commuted by Obama accused of road rage shooting

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Sign up for our free US news bulletin, delivered straight to your inbox every weekday morning Sign up for our free Morning US email news bulletin A convicted drug dealer who was given a second chance after a pardon by former President Barack Obama has been arrested in an attempted shooting that left a woman … Read more

The sentence of a farmer jailed for illegally operating a bulldozer on a river bank has been reduced.

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Sign up for our breaking news email to get free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox. Sign up for our free Latest News email A farmer jailed for 12 months after hiring an excavator and an 18-tonne bulldozer to illegally remove trees and vegetation from a riverbank in Herefordshire has had … Read more

Former French President Sarkozy loses appeal on corruption conviction; upheld the sentence of imprisonment

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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis delivered to your inbox Receive our free Inside Washington email A French appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence for former President Nicolas Sarkozy on corruption and influence-rigging charges. His lawyer said he would take the matter to France’s … Read more