Month: May 2010

A St Catherine man accused of stealing two weed-cutting machines (weed whackers) from the Jamaica Broilers property in McCooks Pen, pleaded guilty in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Charged with storehouse breaking is […] […]

The notorious ‘Stinger’ gang is again the source of fear and discomfort for residents from communities off Maxfield Avenue, St Andrew, as it has now demanded that all residents get permission to entertain visitors. The […] […]

TWO accused murderers were freed in the Home Circuit Court yesterday after the prosecution’s main witness said he was beaten by the police into signing the statements implicating both men in the shooting death of […] […]

An off-duty nurse who helped to drag two people from the wreckage of a car crash outside her home has been hailed “a hero” by the survivors. Civil servants Lois Leyland and Paul Bullen were […] […]

The father of a 16-year-old boy murdered by a mob of teenagers has said his family are in deep shock. Nick Pearton was stabbed and beaten as he tried to escape up to 10 attackers […] […]

The only surviving gunman from the Mumbai massacre has been sentenced to death by a court in India. Judge ML Tahaliyani’s sentence comes three days after Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, 22, was found guilty of murder […] […]

Detectives investigating a million-pound raid on jewellers at Europe’s largest urban shopping mall have arrested three teenage suspects. The three, aged 15, 17 and 18, were held at an address in Camden, north London, on […] […]

An armed mugger who terrified Tube passengers into handing over cash and mobile phones has been jailed for more than three years. Corey Smith, 19, repeatedly threatened to stab commuters on the Central line in […] […]