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Former Hin Leong oil tycoon OK Lim taken into custody at hospital to begin 13.5-year jail term

Former Hin Leong oil tycoon OK Lim taken into custody at hospital to begin 13.5-year jail term

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SINGAPORE: Former oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin, 84, was taken into custody at Gleneagles Hospital on Thursday (Apr 2) to begin his jail term of 13-and-a-half years. Lim, better known as OK Lim, was supposed to surrender at the State Courts on Wednesday (Apr 1) to begin his jail term. It had been cut on appeal from 17-and-a-half years, with the High Court judge saying the sentence was “crushing” given his age and the likelihood he would not reoffend. Lim did not show up at the State Courts on Apr 1. Media reports stated that he had been hospitalised a few days before. CNA’s requests for comment from Lim’s son, Evan Lim, went unanswered. A spokesperson from the judiciary said that Lim’s counsel had submitted an application to defer the commencement of the sentence on Apr 1. The court gave an extension for bail until 3pm on Thursday. Lim was on bail of S$4 million (US$3.1 million), furnished by his wife. However, Lim did not show up at the State Courts on Thursday either. The …

France hands captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker one-year jail sentence

France hands captain of suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker one-year jail sentence

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A French court Monday issued an arrest warrant and a one-year jail sentence against the Chinese captain of a suspected Russian “shadow fleet” tanker over failing to comply with orders to stop his ship. Chen Zhangjie, 39, was sentenced in absentia after the French navy boarded the Boracay tanker in September before releasing the vessel and its crew days later, in what Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned as “piracy”. The court in the western city of Brest also ordered Zhangjie to pay a 150,000-euro ($172,000) fine. The vessel, claiming to be flagged in Benin, was thought to be part of a fleet transporting Russian oil in violation of Western sanctions imposed over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Read moreFrench navy boards Russia-linked tanker in Mediterranean Two employees of a Russian private security company were on board the Boracay when the French navy stopped it, an informed French source and the captain’s lawyer have told AFP. They were in charge of representing Russian interests and gathering intelligence, they said. The Boracay has been linked to mysterious drone …

Hull funeral director Robert Bush admits preventing 30 burials – as families say he should ‘rot in jail’ | UK News

Hull funeral director Robert Bush admits preventing 30 burials – as families say he should ‘rot in jail’ | UK News

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A funeral director – dubbed “a monster” by his victims – has pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful burial. Dozens of bodies and ashes from different people were recovered from a funeral home in Hull in March 2024. Some of the remains had been stored in varying states of decay for nearly a year after relatives thought they had been buried or cremated. Robert Bush initially denied all the charges, but changed his pleas at Hull Crown Court on Thursday to admit preventing the lawful and decent burials of 30 bodies. The 48-year-old was charged after police found human remains at his premises, including those of four unborn babies. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Watch: Police arrest footage of funeral director Robert Bush Image: Robert Bush’s crimes were uncovered in 2024 Standing in the dock, the funeral director pleaded guilty to each of the allegations one by one. He was bailed until his sentencing hearing on 27 July. Bush also previously denied one charge …

Transgender stalker who treatened to ‘batter’ surgeon will serve sentence in women’s jail | UK | News

Transgender stalker who treatened to ‘batter’ surgeon will serve sentence in women’s jail | UK | News

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Taylor has been sent to a wing at a women’s prison in Surrey (Image: Met Police) Women’s rights campaigners are furious after a dangerous trans prisoner who threatened to “batter” a female surgeon was moved to a women’s prison. Vivienne Taylor, 28, who was born a man, was sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty to stalking, causing serious alarm or distress, to Tina Rashid. The stalking campaign stretched across four years and affected Ms Rashid’s work, family and social life. Ms Rashid, a senior consultant with a specialism in genital surgery for trans women, became so fearful of former patient Taylor she carried a safety alarm and paid £60-a-day for taxis to and from work. Sentencing, Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh, sitting at Isleworth Crown Court in West London earlier this month, took what he called the “rare course” of imposing an “exceptional” restraining order without limit on Taylor ­contacting Ms Rashid. The stalking “fixation” culminated in a threatening message to Ms Rashid, suggesting Taylor was going to “batter” her and calling her “evil”, …

French jihadist sentenced to life in jail over IS group genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis

French jihadist sentenced to life in jail over IS group genocide of Iraq’s Yazidis

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A French jihadist was sentenced to life in jail on Friday for involvement in Islamic State group atrocities against Iraq’s Yazidi minority, the first case in France to tackle the issue. The Paris Assizes Court found Sabri Essid guilty in absentia of genocide, crimes against humanity and complicity in the crimes, committed between 2014 and 2016 when the jihadists occupied swathes of northern Syria and Iraq. “Sabri Essid took part in the genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State group,” presiding judge Marc Sommerer told the court. “Essid became part of the criminal network repeatedly buying and reselling a very large number of Yazidi victims,” he said, adding the court judged that the group had “specifically targeted” the Yazidi minority for its religious beliefs. The Islamic State group regarded the Yazidis, who follow a pre-Islamic faith, as heretics. Essid, a Frenchman born in 1984 and who joined the IS group in Syria in 2014, is presumed to have been killed in 2018. But without proof of his death, he was tried and convicted in absentia. He …

A Mexican teen migrant dies in a Florida jail holding ICE detainees : NPR

A Mexican teen migrant dies in a Florida jail holding ICE detainees : NPR

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FILE – A federal agent wears an Immigration and Customs Enforcement badge in New York, June 10, 2025. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption toggle caption Yuki Iwamura/AP MIAMI — A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to ICE, Royer Perez-Jimenez “died of presumed suicide,” although an official cause of death remains under investigation. The death of Perez-Jimenez on Monday is the 46th reported under Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody since the start of President Donald Trump’s administration in January 2025, according to a count by The Associated Press. Perez-Jimenez is the second person to die in ICE custody this week, after an Afghan immigrant — whose family said he had been evacuated from his country after working for years with U.S. forces — died in a Texas hospital after being detained by immigration authorities. Since the beginning of this year, 13 immigrants have died in ICE custody. Perez-Jimenez is the youngest to do so since the beginning of …

Married man who sexually assaulted long-time female friend gets jail, caning

Married man who sexually assaulted long-time female friend gets jail, caning

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SINGAPORE: A married man sexually assaulted his long-time female friend after a night of drinks at his place, despite her protests and struggling. Tan Boon Seng, a 40-year-old Singaporean, was sentenced on Monday (Mar 16) to eight years’ jail and 10 strokes of the cane. He pleaded guilty to two charges of sexual assault and aggravated outrage of modesty, with three other charges including attempted rape taken into consideration. Tan had been friends with the victim since around 2010 or 2011. They were acquainted through mutual friends and used to be neighbours.   In June 2024, the victim was 30 when she asked Tan if he wanted to meet. They met at Punggol MRT station on Jun 29, 2024. They bought four bottles of soju and went to Tan’s flat in Punggol, which was being renovated while he stayed elsewhere. When the pair got to the flat, they went into one of the bedrooms and sat down on a blanket that was on the floor. They had dinner and four bottles of soju. Sometime past …

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

AI Mistake Throws Innocent Grandmother in Jail for Nearly Six Months

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Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech An AI system’s little oopsie, and a police department’s staggering incompetence, landed an innocent grandma in jail. Harrowing reporting by North Dakota radio station WDAY details how the 50-year-old Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in the clink after Fargo cops using an AI facial recognition tool flagged her as a suspect in a bank fraud case in the state. The mother of three — and grandmother of five — says she’s lived her entire life in north-central Tennessee, roughly a thousand miles away from where the crimes she was accused of committing took place. US marshals showed up at her doorstep last July while she was babysitting four kids and arrested her at gunpoint. First, Lipps was booked in a Tennessee county jail as a fugitive from justice from North Dakota. And because she was considered a fugitive, she was held without bail and sat in the jail for nearly four initial months. Lipps received a court-appointed …

Brazil Top Court Panel Keeps Banco Master Owner Vorcaro in Jail

Brazil Top Court Panel Keeps Banco Master Owner Vorcaro in Jail

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SAO PAULO, ⁠March ⁠13 (Reuters) – ⁠The majority of ​a panel ‌of Brazil’s ‌Supreme ⁠Court voted ⁠on Friday to keep ​the owner of ​liquidated lender Banco ⁠Master, Daniel ⁠Vorcaro, ⁠in jail. The ​businessman was detained ​earlier ⁠this month after a ⁠judge cited “strong indication” that Vorcaro attempted ⁠to bribe a former central bank director with gifts in return ⁠for preferential treatment. (Reporting by Isabel Teles; ​Editing by Gabriel ​Araujo) Copyright 2026 Thomson Reuters. Source link

Man faces jail for ‘goading’ American to shoot himself on call | UK News

Man faces jail for ‘goading’ American to shoot himself on call | UK News

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A UK man has been told to prepare himself for prison after admitting to goading a “vulnerable” US citizen into shooting himself over a video call. Dylan Phelan, 21, from Morley in West Yorkshire, pleaded guilty to encouraging the suicide of Travis Dyer in Louisiana on 30 October 2024. During the call, alongside two other people based in the US, Mr Dyer was encouraged to kill himself with a shotgun, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said. Phelan appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to one charge of assisting suicide, with the court told it involved Phelan “together with others… encouraging Travis Dyer to kill himself by shooting”. Phelan had been communicating with Mr Dyer for several months through Discord, the CPS said The encouragement was not an isolated incident, and in the months before his death, Mr Dyer was subjected to sustained and serious encouragement to self-harm by members of the online group, a police investigation revealed. Mr Dyer was known to be vulnerable and struggling with his mental health. The …