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#sentencing

The previous day, prosecutor Julian Nicholls had demanded the maximum penalty for the enthusiastic, energetic and effective perpetrator of abuses carried out in the western Darfur region. Prosecutors say that among his crimes, Abd-Al-Rahman killed two people with an axe. You literally have an axe murderer before you, Nicholls told the judges in The Hague, as Abd-Al-Rahman looked on. Only a life sentence will serve the interest of retribution and deterrence.

'Self-proclaimed pillar of society' was heard complaining about conditions in cell before hearing Moments before the paedophile Pat Salmon learnt his fate for the horrific abuse of a five-year-old, he complained to his counsel about having had to sleep on the floor of his overcrowded cell the night before. Salmon (89), of Rookfield, Knock, Co Mayo, was remanded in custody last Thursday before the finalisation of his sentencing yesterday by Ms Justice Caroline Biggs at the Central Criminal Court.

Antonietta Nguyen has been sentenced to 36 months in federal prison for her role in orchestrating multiple fraud schemes against ABS Seafood, Inc., a major seafood wholesaler in San Francisco where she had previously served as chief financial officer. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston sentenced Nguyen on Nov.14. She was convicted in June of 12 felony counts, following her arrest in June 2023.

Larry Fraser, 48, stole the limited edition signed print of Girl with Balloon from Grove Gallery on New Cavendish Street on 8 September to pay off a historic drug debt.

A serial rapist suspected of being one of the UK's worst sex offenders has been jailed for life with a minimum of 14 years, after spiking and recording his victims as he abused them. Chao Xu, 33, had placed hidden cameras inside household objects such as an air freshener and a packet of sanitary pads to spy on women visiting his home address in Greenwich, and had also filmed women at his workplace and participated in upskirting at London Bridge underground station.

Braun was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison by District Court Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in 2021 for failing to adhere to the terms of his supervised release. He will only serve 20 of those months as he has been detained in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center since this spring. Despite the commutation, the terms of his supervised release included strict behavioral guidelines and a fine of $100,000, both of which Braun violated according to federal prosecutors.

Trista Ann Spicer, who said she killed her boyfriend in self-defense after months of abuse and concealed his body in what police described as a makeshift tomb in her San Bernardino backyard for eight years, was convicted of second-degree murder on Monday, Nov. 10. Jurors also found true a sentencing enhancement that Spicer used a deadly weapon to kill 42-year-old Eric Mercado. In this case, the weapon was a cast-iron skillet.

Convicted drug dealer Jonathan Braun, who had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump during his first term, is being sent back to prison after he violated terms of his supervised release with a series of heinous acts, including allegedly assaulting a three-year-old and sexually abusing a nanny. Braun was sentenced to 27 months in prison on Monday in New York City.

A gangland criminal, who caused the death of a 21-year-old student in a notorious hit-and-run case where he had filmed himself speeding just moments before, will now serve an extra five years in prison after the Court of Appeal ruled that his original eight-year sentence for this and other offences was unduly lenient.

An Arcata woman pleaded no contest Friday to felony vehicular manslaughter in exchange for a maximum sentence of two years in prison for driving over a San Mateo County cliff while under the influence of alcohol, resulting in the death of a passenger in her vehicle, prosecutors said. Madeline St. Pierre, 26, also admitted to two allegations of serious felonies, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.

"You are nothing but a coward. You ducked and dived all your life, but the jury saw through you. You are the abuser, you are the rapist," one victim said. A "monster" whose sexual abuse of four victims spanned three decades has been jailed for 20 years. Declan Daly (54) of Cassidy Apartments, Kells, Co. Meath pleaded guilty before his trial to 12 counts of sexual assault and indecent assault against three female victims on dates between 1982 and 2002.

Game finally up for legendary Kilkenny hurler, who will be sentenced on Monday after he conned several people into giving him thousands of euro for what he said was cancer treatment. There was a brief moment, just before he was taken into custody, when a startled-looking DJ Carey seemed to realise his time was up. Judge Martin Nolan had just announced that he would pass his sentence on Monday, and that the accused would be remanded until then.

Cambridgeshire police said Lee White sent 109 messages to Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, the MP for Tooting in south London, over a four-day period between 29 August and 1 September 2024. White, 52, was arrested at his home in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, on 4 September last year. Police said the messages contained racial abuse and threats to kill Keir Starmer and cabinet ministers.

Outlining the facts of the case, prosecutor Matthew Jolliffe said the defendant entered Comptoir Cafe and Wine in Mayfair in the early hours of May 1 and made off with several bottles of wine valued at 6,000 and 200 cash from the till. On May 13, and June 8, he attended Oliveto and Olivo on Elizabeth Street in Belgravia and took multiple bottles of wine and cash.