The ex-sheriff’s deputy charged with fatally shooting a Black airman at his Florida home is in custody
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The TelegraphMohamed Fayed ‘raped five women’ who worked at Harrods
Mohamed Fayed, the former owner of Harrods, is said to have raped and sexually assaulted a string of women who worked at the department store.
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A 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed near his school in China has died
A 10-year-old Japanese student who was stabbed near his school in southern China has died, officials in Tokyo said Thursday, asking Beijing to provide details of the stabbing and take preventive measures. Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa expressed condolences and noted that the attack occurred despite Tokyo's requests for caution and enhanced safety as China marks a key anniversary of its war with Japan. The student was stabbed on Wednesday about 200 meters (220 yards) from the gate of the Shenzhen Japanese School, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lin Jian said in a daily briefing.
- The Independent
Woman rescued from 13ft python after being trapped for two hours in its coils
Snake bit Arom Arunroj, 64, multiple times and wrapped itself around her
- The Independent
Inmate caught on camera sneaking past guard to assault woman on opposite side of facility
Justin Avery was in jail after being accused of assaulting women near a college campus in April
- The Telegraph
How Sean Combs’ ‘right hand’ woman will be central to sex case
With Sean “Diddy” Combs facing a possible life sentence after being charged with sex trafficking and racketeering, one woman is expected to be at the centre of the music mogul’s case.
- NextShark
Hong Konger convicted of wearing seditious T-shirt
Chu Kai-pong, 27, became the first person convicted under Hong Kong’s newly enacted domestic national security law. Chu pleaded guilty to sedition on Monday after being arrested for wearing a T-shirt and mask displaying pro-independence slogans, actions prosecutors said revived memories of the 2019 protests and incited public disorder. Details of the case: Chu was arrested on June 12, 2024, at Shek Mun MTR station while wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times” and a mask bearing “FDNOL,” shorthand for the 2019 protest mantra “five demands, not one less.”
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Veteran CIA officer who drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women gets 30 years in prison
A longtime CIA officer who drugged, photographed and sexually assaulted more than two dozen women in postings around the world was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Wednesday after an emotional hearing in which victims described being deceived by a man who appeared kind, educated and part of an agency “that is supposed to protect the world from evil.” Brian Jeffrey Raymond, with a graying beard and orange prison jumpsuit, sat dejectedly as he heard his punishment for one of the most egregious misconduct cases in the CIA’s history. “It's safe to say he's a sexual predator,” U.S. Senior Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said in imposing the full sentence prosecutors had requested.
- NextShark
New sketches out for Asian victim found dead near Gilgo Beach serial killings
The Gilgo Beach Task Force in New York’s Long Island on Monday released updated forensic sketches of “Asian Doe,” a victim whose remains were discovered near Gilgo Beach in 2011. About “Asian Doe”: “Asian Doe,” described as a “biological male” of likely Southern Chinese descent, was found dead in 2011 near another victim killed in a string of murders known as the Gilgo Beach serial killings. The new sketches depict “Asian Doe” with both short and long hair.
- Evening Standard
Brian Jeffrey Raymond: CIA spy used Tinder to lure women around the world before drugging and sexually assaulting them
Brian Jeffrey Raymond drugged and sexually assaulted nearly 30 women around the world
- The Telegraph
Inside the ‘Freak Off’ orgies at the centre of the sex charges against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
In 2014, Sean “Diddy” Combs beamed in a black gown and mortar board as he was awarded an honorary degree by Howard University.
- The Independent
50 Cent mocks P Diddy after 1000 lube bottles seized in FBI arrest
The rapper has been a longtime critic of the embattled music mogul
- BBC
Former Olympian arranged teen sex, trial told
Antony James denies 20 charges relating to sexual offences including rape and sexual assault.
- Associated Press
Thailand will indict ex-security personnel over the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters in 2004
Eight former state security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim protesters who were arrested in southern Thailand in 2004 will be indicted on murder charges, the prosecutor’s office announced Wednesday. The long-delayed legal action in connection with what is known as the Tak Bai massacre came just over a month before the statute of limitations expires on the case. The deaths occurred shortly after a Muslim separatist insurgency erupted in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the Buddhist-dominated nation.
- The Independent
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs latest: Rapper sent back to jail as shocking texts after Cassie hotel attack revealed
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has faced a series of civil lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse over the last year
- The Independent
Sex Education star ‘kicked and pepper-sprayed’ by police after witnessing car crash
A Sex Education actor has claimed he was pepper-sprayed and had his legs kicked from under him by police officers in front of his London home. Reece Richards, who played Eugene on the hit Netflix show accused the Metropolitan Police of “racial profiling” and claimed he was the victim of an unlawful arrest in Fulham, west London, on Wednesday 4 September. Sharing a statement on social media, Mr Richards said he was wrongly detained after witnessing a car crash in the early hours of the morning while returning home from performing on the West End.
- The Guardian
John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’
‘There was no crime,’ says author about Robert Roberson who was convicted of murder based on discredited science
- Associated Press
Families of Americans detained in China share their pain and urge US to get them home
The families of four Americans detained in China said Wednesday that their loved ones are suffering both physically and mentally, urging the U.S. government to take action to bring them home. Appearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission of China, the families of Kai Li, Mark Swidan, Dawn Michelle Hunt and Nelson Wells Jr. — all of whom have been detained in China for at least eight years — cast a spotlight on the longstanding issue that has gained new attention with the release this week of American pastor David Lin, who was behind bars for almost 20 years. More Americans are detained in China than in any other foreign country, according to the commission created by Congress to monitor human rights in the communist country.
- BBC
Why hundreds of Samsung workers are protesting in India
About 1500 workers in Tamil Nadu state have been striking work for the past 11 days.
- Associated Press
Man who sold fentanyl-laced pill liable for $5.8 million in death of young female customer
In 2019, Brandon McDowell was contacted by a sophomore in college who asked to buy Percocet, a prescription painkiller. What the 20-year-old sold her instead were counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, a deadly synthetic opioid that can be lethal in a dose as small as 2 milligrams. Hours later, Alexandra Capelouto, also 20, was dead in her Temecula, California, home.
- BBC
Ex-CIA officer drugged and sexually abused women in multiple countries
An investigation was started after a naked women seeking help was seen on his balcony in 2020.