2018 – Page 63 – World Justice News

Larry Nassar jailed for another 40 to 125 years

February 5, 2018 World Justice News 0

Disgraced ex-sports doctor Larry Nassar has been jailed for another 40 to 125 years for molesting young gymnasts. Nassar already faced a lifetime in jail for two prior sentences for sexually abusing girls at USA […]

Salah Abdeslam: Paris suspect attacks ‘anti-Muslim bias’

February 5, 2018 World Justice News 0

The sole surviving suspect from the 2015 Paris terror attacks is refusing to speak any further in a Belgian court, where he is on trial over the gunfight that led to his arrest. Salah Abdeslam […]

Lauri Love case: Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal

February 5, 2018 World Justice News 0

Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love has won his High Court appeal against his extradition to the US. Mr Love, 32, from Stradishall, Suffolk, who was first arrested in October 2013, is suspected of hacking into […]

Teacher Martin Myers put his sock in boy’s mouth

February 4, 2018 World Justice News 0

A primary school teacher accused of putting his sock in a boy’s mouth and giving pupils answers during exams has been banned from teaching. Martin Myers, 47, taught at Ecton Village Primary School in Northamptonshire […]

Barry and Honey Sherman: The mystery of the strangled billionaires

February 4, 2018 World Justice News 0

The killing of a wealthy Canadian couple made headlines around the world. Then the news they had been found hanging by men’s belts next to their indoor pool, with no apparent motive, deepened the intrigue. […]

India principal ‘puts students through trial by fire’

February 2, 2018 World Justice News 0

Police in India have lodged a complaint against a school principal after she allegedly forced 13 pupils to hold their hands over a candle flame. The head teacher, Sushanti Hembrom, was trying to find out […]

Ashwin Daudia guilty of wife in suitcase murder

February 2, 2018 World Justice News 0

A man who was caught on CCTV dragging his ex-wife’s body in a suitcase has been jailed for her murder. Ashwin Daudia, 51, strangled Kiran Daudia and stuffed her remains into the luggage before dumping […]

Larry Nassar attacked by Randall Margraves

Larry Nassar: Father of victim lunges at disgraced US doctor in court

February 2, 2018 World Justice News 0

A father whose three daughters were abused by disgraced US gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has tried to attack him in a Michigan courtroom. Randall Margraves had to be restrained by three court security officers. Before […]

Texas man executed for killing his two daughters

February 1, 2018 World Justice News 0

A man who shot and killed his two daughters in 2001 was executed in Texas on Thursday evening. John Battaglia, 62, called the girls’ mother before murdering his six and nine-year-old daughters in his Dallas […]

Five migrants shot in huge Calais brawl

February 1, 2018 World Justice News 0

At least five migrants have been shot in the French port city of Calais, after a mass brawl between Afghans and Eritreans. French news agency AFP reports that four men have been hospitalised in a […]

Human Rights

Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

Human Rights

Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

Human Rights

France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]

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Crime and Justice News from around the world

Year: 2018

Larry Nassar jailed for another 40 to 125 years

Salah Abdeslam: Paris suspect attacks ‘anti-Muslim bias’

Lauri Love case: Hacking suspect wins extradition appeal

Teacher Martin Myers put his sock in boy’s mouth

Barry and Honey Sherman: The mystery of the strangled billionaires

India principal ‘puts students through trial by fire’

Ashwin Daudia guilty of wife in suitcase murder

Larry Nassar: Father of victim lunges at disgraced US doctor in court

Texas man executed for killing his two daughters

Five migrants shot in huge Calais brawl