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Round-Up
- On 4th April, Patrick Lyoya was shot in the back of the head whilst he was face down on the ground. The gun was pressed against his head when it was fired. The person who fired the gun was, you guessed it, a police officer. It was a traffic stop over “an alleged mismatched license plate.” People should not be getting shot in the head during traffic stops.
- A mushroom scavenger found the body of a child in a wooded area of southern Indiana. An autopsy has stated that the child was a “black male, around 5-years-old, 4ft, of slender build and with a short haircut.” A detailed article on everything that is known so far in this sad case can be read here.
- The Black Lives Matter Foundation is finding itself under “increased scrutiny” for how it is spending donation money.
- Orsolya Gaal | timeline of events.
- Alex “it’s turning the frogs gay” Jones has filed for bankruptcy. Maybe don’t spread misinformation about a mass shooting that killed 20 children (all 6 & 7 years old) and 6 of their teachers.
- Amir Khan was robbed of his watch at gunpoint in London.
- The case of Lori Vallow-Daybell.
- Man arrested after a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death by an “intruder” at her high school.
- Sherri Papini faces jail after pleading guilty to faking her own abduction six years ago. Her husband has filed for divorce and custody of their children.
- Michael Toohey has been identified as the 18-year-old who was beaten to death, by up to 8 people in Liverpool.
- Debanhi Escobar - went missing on a notorious stretch of highway in Mexico on 8th April. Sadly her body has now been found.
- Priyantha Diyawadanage was accused of blasphemy and then beaten to death by an angry mob, who then set fire to his body and took pictures with it, in Pakistan last year. Six men have received the death penalty for their part in the lynching.
- An armed robbery in Brazil saw locals being used as human shields.
- Someone has some explaining to do after £60 million worth of cocaine was found on a fishing boat in the Canary Islands.
- Riots have left 3 people injured in Sweden.
- Three babies rushed to hospital after eating crackers laced with drugs at their day-care.
- As Melissa Lucio’s execution date looms ever closer, concerns that she is, in fact, innocent are reaching “fever pitch.”
- Oscar Franklin Smith has had his execution delayed due to a “technical oversight” in the preparation of the lethal injection that was to kill him. The reprieve came merely an hour before the execution was due to take place.
- Carl Wayne Buntion has been executed in Huntsville, Texas after 32 years on Death Row. He had shot a Houston police officer to death in 1990.
- This was extremely unlucky.
- A man beat up a 72-year-old woman in a carjacking in San Antonio. He then crashes the stolen car and dies.
- Ezra Miller has been arrested again.
- A$AP Rocky arrested at Los Angeles International Airport in connection with a 2021 shooting.
- Christian Brueckner has been named as an official suspect in the Madeline McCann case.
- Mike Tyson lost his temper with an “aggressive passenger who was harassing him” and had “thrown a water bottle at him” according to spokesperson.
- Lukasz Czapla is currently on trial. He is accused of murdering his 2-year-old son Julius in Edinburgh in 2020.
- Logan Mwangi’s mother, step-father & a 14-year-old known only as “Boy X” have been found guilty of murdering the 5-year-old after months of abuse.
- Rikki Neave finally gets his justice. Rikki was just 6-years-old when he was murdered by a then 13-year-old James Watson, in Peterborough in 1994.
- Release for Fritzl?
- Sandra Johanna Alvarez Solano was homeless and 37 weeks pregnant when she was murdered by two hit-men who had allegedly been hired by Yadira Alexandra Yepes Sotelo. Why? She wanted her baby.
- “Racism was likely a factor” when the police strip searched a 15-year-old girl without the presence of an appropriate adult.
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- Apple are to begin rolling out an AI Tool that claims to automatically detect “child sexual abuse” messages.
- $139, 793 fine for “Rust” movie producers.
- Vyacheslav Matrosov forced Oleg Sviridov to kill himself after he found out he had sexually abused his 6-year-old daughter. Matrosov has been sentenced to 18 months in a Russian penal colony.
- Christine Robinson was raped and murdered by Andrea Imbayarwo in South Africa in 2014. Christine’s niece, Lehanne Sergison, fed up with the lack of progress, decided to take matters into her own hands.
- Court orders Julian Assange’s extradition to the USA.
- 10 year sentence for the dealer who supplied Mac Miller with the drugs that killed him.
- There is to be a reform on how police go about investigating unexplained deaths.
- A 190 year prison sentence for the murderer of LA Philanthropist Jacqueline Avant.
- Skylar Eros Dupree Thomas was confronted by the staff of hotel in which he had entered despite being barred from. At some point during the confrontation he brandished a wizards wand….
- Dale Simmons was allegedly murdered when he was pushed off a cliff by 4 teenagers in Kent.
- Police failed to respond to a 999 call and a woman was raped after being stalked for 2 hours.
- 10-year-old Zoe McCue died in a house fire in Georgia, USA on Ester Sunday. Her 15-year-old brother has been arrested on suspicion of deliberately starting the fire. No charges have yet been made.
- Andrew Bradshaw, a former Maryland Mayor, has avoided jail via a plea deal which saw him plead guilty to 5 counts of posting revenge porn online.
- Forensic Genealogy strikes again.
- And again.
- Sir Bradley Wiggins says he was groomed by a coach when he was around 13-years-old.
- The mother of 5-year-old Elijah Lewis has been charged with his murder.
- Marcus Ellison is a predatory paedophile.
- A woman has been arrested for falsely accusing 3 men of sexually assaulting her in a layby in Cheshire.
- Guns were the leading cause of child death in the USA in 2020.
- Roxane Record forced her 4-year-old granddaughter China, to drink a bottle of Canadian Mist whisky. The child died with a blood alcohol level that would have been fatal even for an adult.
- British woman flies to America to marry a death row inmate….
- A Catholic Priest and a Nun were attacked at a church in Nice, France.
- Emmett Tills relatives want Carolyn Bryant Donham prosecuted.
- Simon Leviev, aka The Tinder Swindler is facing jail in Spain.
- Another parole hearing for child rapist and murderer Colin Pitchfork this autumn.
- Depp v Heard trial so far.
- Family of 4 stabbed to death in London.
- “Westminster is a safe place to be a woman.” with 56 MPs, 3 of whom are cabinet ministers currently facing sexual sexual misconduct claims…I’m not so sure.
What to Read?
Opinion | They are the Heirs of Nazi Fortunes, and They Aren’t Apologising - “In a country that is celebrated for its culture of reckoning and remembrance, the richest families are often an exception.”
How Has American Support for Gun Reform Changed in the Pandemic - “An uptick in gun violence across the United States has reignited a push for more common sense firearm reforms. But despite growing public safety concerns – and a mass shooting in a New York subway this month – Americans appear more divided than ever on gun control.”
Remembering Rosario Ibarra, Mexico’s champion of the Disappeared - As she searched for answers about her son who went missing, she became a “pioneer in the defence of human rights, peace and democracy in Mexico."
Number Fever: The Pepsi Contest That Became a Deadly Fiasco - “Decades ago, a marketing stunt promised Philippine soda drinkers a chance at a million pesos. But an error at a bottling plant led to 600,000 winners—and to lawsuits, rioting, and even deaths.”
Black Whisky Maker Sues Diageo Over Discrimination at Bulleit - “Eboni Major was blending award-winning bourbon at Bulleit but she alleges that just as she was becoming a public face of the brand, she faced discrimination at the distillery.”
More States are Restricting the Shackling of Pregnant Inmates, but it Still Occurs - The Tennessee legislature gave its final approval to a bill on Thursday that would restrict the use of shackles and other restraints on pregnant inmates - the latest state to limit what medical experts say is a routine but dangerous practice.
Cooma Jail: Prison That Was Once “World’s Only Jail for Gay Men.” - “Set in one of the coldest and windiest small towns in Australia, Cooma prison holds a dark secret. Not only was it reopened in 1957 with the specific purpose of incarcerating men for "homosexual offences", it was also said to be used as a human testing ground with the ultimate goal of eradicating homosexuality from society.”
What to Watch?
Conversations with a Killer | The John Wayne Gacy Tapes - Never-before-heard audio from the interrogation of serial killer John Wayne Gacy threads through this chilling look at his 1970s murder spree.