#sentencing

#sentencing

This deliberate murder was clearly a wicked act. He knew his co[ntrol over his actions]. The Crown's case emphasized that despite Skebas's mental health struggles, he possessed the capacity to understand what he was doing, had deliberately attempted to avoid detection following the attack, and had intended to flee the country, demonstrating premeditation and consciousness of guilt.

A man who caused the unlawful termination of a woman's pregnancy after forcing her to take five 'abortion' pills and then locking her in a room at a house in Co Donegal has been jailed for nine years.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Watsonville woman received her sentencing after being convicted in a 30 year old cold case. On Wednesday, Pamela Ferreyra, 61, was sentenced to 13 years and four months for one count of voluntary manslaughter and one count of felony child abuse for the December 1994 death of her infant son, according to a press release by the District Attorney's Office.

The 34-year-old finished his speech by heiling white Australia and Thomas Sewell, the leader of Australia's most prominent neo-Nazi group, the now-disbanded National Socialist Network. He also called for the release of the jailed neo-Nazi Joel Davis. He intended to incite hatred amongst the crowd he was addressing, Freund said. He intended to incite hatred against the Jewish community and Jews in general.

My family is devastated, completely devastated,

A serial thief nicknamed Hamster by Greggs staff stole almost 2,000 worth of food from the same shop over several weeks, a court heard. Adam Gosling, 39, has been spared jail after stealing from a branch of the bakery chain in Greenford, west London, 38 times between 30 December, 2025 and 10 February, 2026. The value of the thefts ranged from 12.30 to 100 per visit and, on some days, he targeted the shop multiple times, the charge sheet said.

This defendant made a series of reckless and deliberate decisions that had deadly consequences. By driving at high speeds and running red lights, he turned a Brooklyn intersection into a death trap.

The elderly treasurer for a Brooklyn borough president candidate was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and three years probation for a failed straw donor scheme to scam the city out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in public matching funds. Erlene King, 72, who worked on the 2021 primary election campaign of Democrat Anthony Jones, was sentenced by Brooklyn Federal Court Carol Bagley Amon on Wednesday, after pleading guilty to wire fraud in January 2025.

Agustin Calderon, 43, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and a gun enhancement in the Dec. 16, 2023 fatal shooting of 29-year-old Eric Azevedo, in Antioch. Calderon was formally sentenced in October and is housed at Pleasant Valley State Prison, records show. Prosecutors dropped a murder count as part of the plea deal, records show.

Persico Jr., 62, of Todt Hill, is facing a maximum of two years behind bars but was reportedly expected to receive anywhere from five to 11 months. In 2023, Persico Jr. was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a labor union extortion plot carried out by top leadership within the Colombo crime family. He was granted supervised release last summer on the condition he avoid all contact with members of organized crime.

"Tomorrow marks 3 years without you, Brianna," her mum, Esther, wrote in a message shared on social media on Tuesday (10 February). "I still think of you every. single. day." "I wish I could hug you and hear your voice, even just one more time," she continued. "I will continue to work hard in your memory, because I have to do something with the love and energy I will forever hold for you.

The body of Stephen Ring was discovered in Carrigfoyle Quarry nearly two weeks after he disappeared A woman who helped to dump a man's body in a quarry "like a piece of rubbish" and later went on social media to express concern for his wellbeing has been jailed for six years. Mr Justice Kerida Naidoo at the Central Criminal Court today said the defendant, Jane Corcoran (34), lied to gardai about the circumstances surrounding the death and disappearance of Stephen Ring in 2024.

The intense grief of losing James and learning in the court of the verbal, psychological and physical abuse is utterly unimaginable. The lack of humanity shown after his brutal final fatal attack is imprinted on my mind and will haunt me for the remainder of my days. I am grateful to all concerned who heard James's voice in the dark and believed him. The pain of intense loss may fade after time, but the sadness will always be there.

In September 2024, a Secret Service agent saw a man he later identified as Routh holding a semi-automatic rifle hidden in the tree line at Trump International in West Palm Beach. The agent accosted and then fired on Routh, who fled in his car and was arrested a short time later. In a two-and-a-half-week-long trial last fall, prosecutors spent seven days detailing Routh's activities in the weeks before the planned sniper attack.

Just nine days after the thwarted raid on Ms Taylor-Joy, Holdrick struck again in a second home invasion. Alongside accomplice Ashley Fulton, he disguised himself as a police officer for a raid in Sandbanks, overlooking Poole harbour. During this incident, a woman and her daughter were held at gunpoint, tied up, and threatened with extreme violence, including being burned with an iron and shot dead, if they did not open the family safe.

During an investigation into fraudulent unemployment assistance, federal law enforcement asked Tran about a false letter he gave to unemployment agency officials in an attempt to have his benefits reinstated after they were temporarily suspended, said prosecutors.