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By Mar Gabriel and Phoebe Salvador Eagle News Service The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) will file murder charges against the two suspects in the death of detainee Genesis “Tisoy” Argoncillo. In a press conference on Friday, June 22, QCPD director Chief Superintendent Joselito Esquivel Jr. said based on the statements of three witnesses, it was detainees Richard Bautista and Justin Mercado, alleged members of the Sputnik Gang, who mauled Argoncillo to death in the QCPD Station […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP)- An Iraqi failed asylum seeker wanted over the rape and murder of a teenage girl in Germany has been arrested in Iraq, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Friday. Ali Bashar, 20, who is believed to have strangled Susanna Maria Feldman, 14, after sexually assaulting her, was “arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of German federal police”, said Seehofer. cfm-hmn/fz/nla © Agence France-Presse
By Camille Bas-Wohlert and Annabella Pultz Agence France Presse A Copenhagen court on Wednesday found Danish inventor Peter Madsen guilty of the premeditated murder and sexual assault of Swedish journalist Kim Wall on his homemade submarine last year, handing him a life sentence. Madsen, 47, had admitted chopping up the 30-year-old’s body and throwing her remains overboard in waters off Copenhagen on the night of August 10, 2017, but claimed her death was accidental. […]
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP) — Dutch police on Friday launched the country’s biggest ever DNA search, asking over 20,000 men to come forward as they seek to resolve the 1998 murder of a young boy. “Some 21,500 men will receive a personal invitation in February to voluntarily give DNA samples,” police said in a statement. “It’s the largest such DNA investigation in search of family ties ever carried out in The Netherlands.” Eleven-year-old Nicky Verstappen […]
(Eagle News) — Solicitor General Jose Calida has asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision that paved the way for former Palawan Gov. Joel Reyes to leave detention. In a motion for reconsideration filed on Monday, Calida said the “(Former Special 11th Division) clearly disregarded jurisprudential parameters in the determination of the existence of probable cause” for the arrest warrant issued against the former governor in connection with the charges he faces for […]
NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Two years after he was sensationally acquitted of murder and the 1978 Lufthansa heist, New York mobster Vincent Asaro finally got his comeuppance Thursday, sentenced to eight years for arson. Asaro, 82 — a capo from the Bonanno organized crime family — now faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars for ordering an arson attack on a car in 2012. In June, Asaro, whose […]
(Eagle News) — The suspect in the murder of a woman and her seven-year-old child daughter surrendered to authorities on Thursday. Ruel Cabatingan surrendered to the Eastern Visayas provincial office around 8 a.m. Cabatingan is a suspect in the killing of Ruby Gamos, 37, and her child, Shaniah Nicole, whose bodies were found inside their private subdivision in Barangay Navarro on December 11. The family’s car, television, gadgets and jewelry were missing, according to authorities. According […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — 2017 was Mexico’s most violent year in two decades, with 23,101 murders carried out between January and November, according to official figures released Friday. The number of murders in the first 11 months of this year surpassed the previous record of 22,409 killings during the whole of 2011. In November alone, 2,212 murders were recorded — while 2,380 killings were carried out in October, making it the most violent month since the […]
by Ben Sheppard Agence France-Presse JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — At the 2012 London Olympics, before 80,000 roaring fans and a constellation of camera flashes, it took Oscar Pistorius 45.44 seconds to become a global icon. The South African’s sprint around the 400-meter track was the first time in history that a double-amputee had raced at the Olympic Games. The race capped an Olympian triumph over adversity for Pistorius. His journey from disabled child to […]
SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) — Four men suspected of plotting with two women to murder the North Korean leader’s half-brother were Monday named by police as North Koreans who fled Malaysia after the assassination. They were identified at the trial of Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong, the women accused of killing Kim Jong-Nam on February 13 with nerve agent VX at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in a hit that stunned the world. The pair, who […]
by M Jegathesan Agence France-Presse SHAH ALAM, Malaysia (AFP) – Two women go on trial Monday accused of murdering the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, in an audacious assassination in Malaysia that stunned the world and sparked a diplomatic crisis. Indonesian Siti Aisyah and Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong arrived at the heavily guarded court outside the capital Kuala Lumpur for the proceedings, handcuffed and wearing bulletproof vests. The defendants were arrested just days after the killing of […]
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday sentenced a man convicted of killing Miss Honduras World and her sister to 45 years in prison. Plutarco Ruiz, 31, was convicted and sentenced for manslaughter in the case of Miss Honduras World Maria Jose Alvarado Munoz, in 2014. He was also convicted of murdering Sofia Trinidad Alvarado, whom he was dating, said court spokesman Melvin Duarte. The murder case shocked even violence-plagued Honduras and captured […]
