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by Alexandria SAGE ROME, Italy (AFP) — An Italian court convicted two young Americans Wednesday for the murder of a police officer while they were on a summer holiday in Rome, with both handed life sentences. Finnegan Lee Elder, 21, had admitted stabbing Mario Cerciello Rega during a late-night encounter in July 2019, while out with his friend Gabriel Natale-Hjorth, 20. Prosecutors claimed it was a brutal, unprovoked attack in which Elder, then 19, stabbed […]
(Eagle News) – Two counts of murder will be filed against a Parañaque police officer who had shot a 52-year old woman and her 25-year old son after a dispute and heated talk while he was trying to arrest the man for using a “boga”, a type of improvised cannon that creates a very loud noise. Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca had already surrendered to the Rosales, Pangasinan Municipal Police Station on Monday night, […]
(Eagle News) — A Pakistani-Japanese national who is wanted for murder has been arrested in Rizal, the Bureau of Immigration said on Monday, July 20. In a statement, the bureau said Muhammad Sattar Yamamoto, 53, was arrested on Tuesday in his residence in Barangay Muzon, Taytay, Rizal by members of the bureau’s Fugitive Search Unit and of the Batangas Provincial Police Office by virtue of a mission order. The Pakistani government had asked for the […]
(Eagle News)–Focus crimes such as murder and rape have hit an “all-time low” amid the COVID-19 community quarantine, the Philippine National Police said. According to the PNP, a comparative analysis from the Joint Task Force COVID Shield during 84 days of the period showed crime incidents dropping 57%, to 5652 cases from March 17 to June 8. The figure was 7,352 cases less than the 13,004 cases recorded from December 24, 2019 to Mar 16, […]
(Eagle News)–Murder charges were filed on Friday, Feb. 21, against Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office board member Sandra Cam over the killing of a vice mayor last year. Also charged for the death of Batuan, Masbate vice mayor Charlie Yuson III before the Department of Justice were her son, Marco Martin Cam; Nelson Cambaya; Junel Gomez; Bradford Solis; Juanito de Luna; and Rigor dela Cruz. Acting as complainants were Yuson’s widow, Lalaine; Charlie, Yuson, Jr., and […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one other person seriously injured, police said Wednesday. The motive for the attack on Fritz von Weizsaecker, 59, on Tuesday evening was unclear. Von Weizsaecker, a doctor, had just delivered a lecture on liver diseases at the Schlosspark hospital in the western Berlin neighbourhood of Charlottenburg […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain were Chinese nationals, British media outlets reported on Thursday, citing sources. The victims were discovered in a container on the back of a truck in Grays, east of London, on Wednesday, shortly after arriving by ferry from Belgium. The local Essex Police force, which is working with immigration officials, said their initial priority was to try to identify the […]
(Eagle News)–The employer of slain Overseas Filipino Worker Joanna Demafelis has been found guilty of her murder. The Department of Foreign Affairs Office of the Undersecretary for Migrant Workers said Syrian national Mouna Ali Hassoun was convicted by the Syrian District Criminal Court. Hassoun’s Lebanese husband, Nader Essam Assaf, has also been charged with murder in Lebanon, the DFA said. “DFA will continue to provide legal assistance to the family until justice is served,” it […]
(Eagle News)–Former Calauan, Laguna Mayor Antonio Sanchez filed for executive clemency sometime this year but was denied. This is according to parole and pardons administration head Manuel Co, who was interviewed on GMA’s News to Go on Thursday, Aug. 22. “Hindi na nakarating sa Presidente ‘yun… denial na po ang aming desisyon,” Co said. According to Co, the board denied Sanchez’s bid because he had been convicted of a heinous crime. Sanchez was sentenced to […]
by Eric THOMAS MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) — Canadian police said Wednesday they had discovered the bodies of two men believed to be fugitive teens who allegedly murdered three people last month — ending a nearly three-week nationwide manhunt. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were wanted over the murders of an Australian man and his American girlfriend in their 20s, as well as of a Canadian university professor. Initially, the pair were reported missing […]
BUCHAREST, Romania (AFP) — Several thousand protesters rallied in Bucharest on Saturday after Romania’s police chief was fired over the murder of a 15-year-old girl who had made three emergency calls to report her own kidnapping and given clues to her whereabouts. Critics allege that officials failed to take the alert seriously and finally reacted too late to help save the teen, identified as Alexandra. Amid chants of “incompetence” and angry calls for the […]
CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) — At least two people were killed and several wounded Tuesday in a shooting at the University of North Carolina’s Charlotte campus, staff and local media reported. “Shots reported near Kennedy. Run, Hide, Fight. Secure yourself immediately,” the university’s office of emergency management tweeted. The Charlotte Observer said two people were dead and two others had life-threatening injuries. The local Fox television affiliate identified the dead as boys aged 17 […]
