#conviction-and-sentencing

#conviction-and-sentencing

A serial rapist who drugged his victims to attack them at his London apartment and used hidden cameras to covertly record women is set to be sentenced. Chao Xu, a 33-year-old Chinese national, used networking parties at his Greenwich apartment to draw in potential victims before plying them with a drink laced with drugs. After his arrest, Met Police detectives found hidden cameras in Xu's bathroom, including one secreted inside an air freshener, and also recovered videos and images showing he was a prolific upskirter on London's transport network.

Now it is quite shocking as the verdict was read, it appeared to our producers inside the courtroom that Routh tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen. That's what it appeared to look like. Then four marshals dragged him out of the courtroom, took his coat off; they then shackled him at the waste and ankles, and they brought him back into the courtroom.

On Thursday, the populist ex-leader was found guilty by four out of five judges examining the case at Brazil's Supreme Court, on all five counts he faced, making him the first Brazilian leader ever to be found guilty of an attempt to overturn an election. On house arrest in the lead-up to the verdict, he has now been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison.