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Pension age rises, a warning from China and the guilty verdict for the man who shot and murdered nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel lead Friday's papers across the UK.The guilty verdict of the man who shot and killed Olivia in her own home in August last year leads Metro, the Daily Mirror and The Daily Telegraph.

A South Carolina jury convicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh in the killings of his wife and son.He faces up to life in prison when he's formally sentenced on Friday for the murders.LEILA FADEL, HOST: A rural South Carolina lawyer with powerful family connections is now a convicted killer.Alex Murdaugh was found guilty of murdering his wife and son.

A 30-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering a father of one by stabbing him in the head with a screwdriver in a churchyard.Melusi Madaweni killed 26-year-old Billy Pearson in the churchyard of Chesterfield Parish Church, also known as the Crooked Spire, in Derbyshire in the early hours of August 7 2022.

Eleanor Williams' case has put Barrow through the wringer, local MP Simon Fell said.Williams, 22, was convicted on Tuesday at Preston Crown Court of perverting the course of justice after claiming that she had been the victim of an Asian grooming gang.Reacting to the verdict in a post on his website, Barrow & Furness MP Mr Fell said he hoped that the local community could heal and learn lessons that will better protect genuine victims.

ISTANBUL  A court in Turkey barred the mayor of Istanbul from political activity for years after convicting him on charges of insulting public officials, a ruling that could sideline a rising star in the opposition who is seen as a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections next year.

ISTANBUL  A court in Turkey barred the mayor of Istanbul from political activity for years after convicting him on charges of insulting public officials, a ruling that could sideline a rising star in the opposition who is seen as a potential challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections next year.

A man who murdered his partner and tried to cover it up has been sentenced to at least 21 years in jail.Garry Bennett, 37, killed 30-year-old Madison Wright as she tried to leave him, then sent a message on her phone to suggest she had gone away.Her body was found in Wat Tyler Country Park in Pitsea, Essex, on 30 July last year, eight days after she was last seen.

Bayern Munich could make a case for having pulled off the signing of the January window after managing to secure Joao Cancelo on a loan deal until the end of the season without having to fork out a single penny (beyond wages).Though the 70m (61.9m) option to buy attached certainly appears prohibitive as far as the Bavarians' hopes of making the deal permanent are concerned, current circumstances could aid the club's ambitions in that regard.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein could face up to 24 years in prison when he is sentenced for rape and sexual assault in Los Angeles on Thursday.

A man has been found guilty of helping two murderers cover their tracks after they killed two men in north London.Mirjan Ismaili, 52, was convicted of perverting the course of justice following a trial at Isleworth Crown Court.He will be sentenced at the same court on Thursday.The jury heard how Ismaili rushed to assist his friend Besnik Berisha in the immediate aftermath of the murders of Shkelqim Paja and Arber Fesko on 19 December 2019.

The murder case against Alex Murdaugh, the disgraced South Carolina lawyer accused of killing his wife and son, concluded with a guilty verdict and consecutive life sentences without parole, after a six-week trial that probed the mysteries, manners and machinations of a fallen legal dynasty.After closing arguments were completed, the jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon on whether Mr. Murdaugh, 54, fatally shot his wife, Maggie Murdaugh, 52, and their younger son, Paul Murdaugh, 22, near the dog kennels on the family's rural hunting estate in Islandton, S.C., in June 2021.

Whoever murdered the Prohibition-era gangster Jack Legs Diamond was never prosecuted for the crime.But William Kennedy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who owns the 1857 house in Albany, N.Y., where Mr. Diamond was whacked, is certain that the deed was done by a couple of policemen.Right there, said Mr. Kennedy, 95, pointing to the spot in the bedroom where Mr. Diamond, after celebrating a not-guilty verdict in a criminal trial, was shot three times in the head in the early hours of Dec. 18, 1931.

Former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh will appeal his convictions and sentences for the 2021 murders of his wife and son, his defense team said Thursday in a three-page court filing.The filing was expected, as Murdaugh had 10 days to send a notice of appeal following his conviction last week, and his attorneys had indicated they planned to do so.

A transgender rapist who raped two women while still a man is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.Isla Bryson, 31, was convicted last month of raping two women: one in Clydebank in 2016; and one in Drumchapel, Glasgow, in 2019; committing the offences while still a man known as Adam Graham.Bryson met both the victims online, with prosecutors saying the 31-year-old preyed on vulnerable women.

A 15-year-old has been convicted of murdering a software engineer, stabbed in the chest after a row at an Asda supermarket.Ian Kirwan, 53, was killed after challenging a group of youths for messing about in the toilets at a store in Redditch, Worcestershire, on 8 March last year.Jurors at Birmingham Crown Court cleared three other youths two aged 14 and one aged 16 of murder and manslaughter but found them guilty of violent disorder.

Trump made the comment during a presidential debate against now-President Joe Biden in the fall of 2020.Then-President Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate with former Vice President Joe Biden at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020.Melina Mara / The Washington Post via Getty Images A federal judge overseeing the jury trial for members of the Proud Boys accused of seditious conspiracy for their role in the January 6, 2021, breach of the U. S. Capitol ruled on Wednesday that prosecutors can use a statement made by former President Donald Trump months prior to the attack as evidence.

The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of Donald J. Trump's family business.The verdict, which was reached about 3:40 on Tuesday afternoon, will be read aloud in the Manhattan courtroom shortly.Jurors have decided whether the Trump Organization was guilty of a scheme in which its top executives were compensated in lavish off-the-books perks that allowed them to evade taxes.

The 12 jurors who will decide whether Donald J. Trump's company is guilty of felonies related to a tax fraud that its executives engaged in began deliberating shortly before noon Monday and will continue Tuesday.They have returned to the courtroom only once, to hear the judge repeat his specific instructions on one of the 17 counts the Trump Organization faces.