#sentencing

#sentencing

CCTV footage released by South Wales Police on Tuesday (12 May) shows Richard Wolsey, 47, of no fixed abode, entering a One Stop shop on Pentregethin Road and boldly picking up the entire display, before walking out the door on 18 April.

Nick Pasqual has been found guilty of attempted murder for stabbing his estranged ex-girlfriend over 20 times in 2024. Charges include first-degree residential burglary with a person present and injuring a spouse, cohabitant, fiancé, boyfriend, girlfriend, or child's parent.

Mother of three, Alison Chawke (41), bit one of the men, John McHugh, aged in his 50s, on his cheek and kicked him in the head, as her brother Bill Chawke (31), wrestled with Mr McHugh on the floor of the hotel, Limerick Circuit Criminal Court heard.

Ali Lamnouar, who stole an estimated £163,000 in valuables from Paul Coulson's townhouse, was described as having committed opportunistic burglaries with no significant planning involved.

Paul Solway, 58, was jailed for 11 years after deliberately cutting a gas pipe and setting fire to a chair, causing an explosion at his partner's home in Derby.

Jasveen Sangha pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises, three counts of distribution of ketamine, and one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in death or serious bodily injury.

The victim shared numerous incidents of 'indecent touching' and accounts of rape by 'penile penetration' by Turcios Torres, the DA's said.

"This case exposed a decade-long scheme in which the defendants used psychological, emotional, and financial coercion to control their victims and extract labor and services for their own benefit."

The man allegedly confided in another neighbor about his plans to kill the family and blow up a mosque, using his HVAC skills to tamper with gas lines.

Joshua Bonilla was sentenced to 32 years to life, and Bryant Perez, identified by prosecutors as the getaway driver, received 20 years to life after pleading guilty.

Today, a Macon County jury returned a murder verdict in the case of Aniah Blanchard. Although we are disappointed that this outcome does not allow for the death penalty, we intend to seek the maximum sentence allowed by law when the defendant is sentenced on May 7th. I pledge to do everything in my power to ensure that Ibraheem Yazeed spends the rest of his life in prison.

Craig Knight, 50, of Waltham Forest, east London, broke into St Anne's Church in Kew, south-west London, while drunk on 10 January, Wimbledon Magistrates' Court heard on Monday. Reverend Canon Dr Giles Fraser said that he saw blood on the church altar and floor, and discovered that two brass candlesticks had been taken.

A drug driver admitted he had taken ketamine minutes after killing a motorcyclist in a fatal crash. Police were called to Chorley Old Road, Bolton, on 14 December 2024, where a car, belonging to Cormac Sale, 22, had collided with a motorbike. The rider, 22-year-old Spencer Rothwell-Poole, from Horwich, died at the scene.

Leighton Ashby, 22, and Oakley Hollands, 20, filmed the 30-minute attack on a mobile phone and kept the sheep's ear tag as a token, which was later hidden inside a Monster energy can and discovered inside a communal toilet. The duo, who were enrolled at Plumpton Agricultural College, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal and with Ashby sentenced to two years behind bars and Hollands receiving a 20-month sentence at a youth offender institution.

QUEENS, NY - A 21-year-old East Elmhurst man has been sentenced to 22½ years in prison for killing his landlady during a rent dispute in 2023, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday. The defendant, identified as - also known as Deiby Vidal - pleaded guilty last month to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 55-year-old Zoraida Leo. Prosecutors said Vidal lived in the attic apartment of Leo's multi-unit home for two years before the confrontation turned deadly.