69 killings in 24 hrs: Mexico’s deadliest day in drug war
Mexico City: Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.
The country resembled a grim, statistical dart board on Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including 26 in Ciudad Juarez, 13 in and around Mexico City and 10 in the city of Chihuahua.
Two more charged over alleged gang rape of schoolgirls
Melbourne: Two more teenage boys have been charged in relation to the alleged gang rape of two schoolgirls in a park in Melbourne’s north in October.
A 16-year-old from Broadmeadows has been charged with four counts of rape and a 17-year-old from Coolaroo with two counts of rape over the alleged attack in Roxburgh Park on October 24.
Hawala kingpin Naresh Jain banned from entering UK
London, 08 Dec 2009: Naresh Kumar Jain, the hawala kingpin arrested in New Delhi for alleged laundering of drug money …
Peruvian Gang Killed Victims to Get Body Fat, El Comercio Says
Lima, 20 November 2009: Police say a gang in the Peruvian jungle has been killing people and draining fat from the corpses to sell on the black market for use in cosmetics.
Three suspects confessed to killing five people, but the gang may have been involved in dozens more, said Colonel Jorge Mejia,
5 on trial for gang-rape
Singapore City, 17 November 2009: AN ALCOHOL-FUELLED post-Christmas gathering last year ended with a teenage girl accusing her acquaintances of …
Gang rape witness feels no guilt
SAN FRANCISCO, Fla., 12 November 2009: One teenager who witnessed the gang rape of a 15-year-old San Francisco area girl told ABC he doesn’t feel accountable for what happened.
The two-hour gang rape happened last month outside the girl’s Richmond High School homecoming dance. Police said 10 males were suspected of taking part in the gang rape, while 20 others watched and did nothing, and some took photographs on their cell phones.
China sentences notorious gang ‘godmother
Beiging, 04 Nov 2009: Dubbed the “godmother” of the Chinese underworld, she was notorious for her toughness and a lavish lifestyle that reportedly included luxury villas and a stable of 16 young lovers.
Her criminal reign ended Tuesday when Xie Caiping, 46, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for running illegal casinos and bribing government officials.
Saskatoon loses title as Canada’s murder capital
Saskatoon lost its dubious claim to the title of murder capital of Canada last year.
According to an annual report released this week by Statistics Canada, the city recorded four homicides in 2008, resulting in a per-capita rate of 1.55 for every 100,000 residents — lower than the overall national rate of 1.83, and less than half the 2007 rate of 3.6.
Juveniles charged as adults in gang-rape case, more arrests likely
California, 29 October 2009: Police in Richmond, Calif., say as many as 10 young men may have assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the weekend gang-rape outside her school’s homecoming dance, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Five people have already been arrested, including three juveniles charged as adults with rape.
Gang murder accused found guilty
London, 27 October 2009: A man accused of ordering the shooting of a 15-year-old boy in a Derbyshire park last year in a gang-related feud has been found guilty of murder.
Michael-Paul Hamblett-Sewell, 20, of Marlborough Road, Derby, was on trial for the murder of Kadeem Blackwood.