Murder?

UK NEWS: MAN STABBED TO DEATH ON OXFORD STREET

December 26, 2011

A man said to be in his late teens/early twenties was stabbed to death today in broad daylight on Oxford Street during the height of the Boxing Day sales.  A number of arrests have been made. Via The Guardian The victim is believed to have been stabbed outside the Footlocker shop at the junction of Stratford place. The stabbing caused chaos on the busy shopping street on the opening day of the post-Christmas sales after police cordoned off much of the area, […]

UK NEWS: MODEL HID MAC 10 ‘SPRAY AND PRAY’ MURDER GUN IN BABY’S NIGHTDRESS

December 14, 2011

When will these silly young women learn? Dating and protecting your scum bag lover and his crew never ends well. Via The Evening Standard A model has been jailed for five years for hiding a Mac 10 sub-machinegun used in an unsolved murder in a baby’s nightdress. The Mac 10 “spray and pray” weapon was used to shoot dead 24-year-old Larry Malone, as he sat on the sofa at his aunt’s home in West Norwood. Mr Malone was hit seven times in […]

UK NEWS: HUSBAND ARRESTED OVER WIFE’S DEATH

December 8, 2010

Via BBC News The husband of a woman murdered on her honeymoon has been arrested in the UK at the request of the South African authorities, police said. Anni Dewani, 28, from Sweden, was shot after being kidnapped while in a taxi with her husband Shrien last month. On Tuesday, taxi driver Zola Tongo told Western Cape High Court he was offered 15,000 rand (£1,400) by Shrien Dewani, 31, from Bristol, to kill his wife. Mr Dewani was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to […]

UK NEWS: SOUTH AFRICAN HONEYMOON DEATH HUSBAND ‘PLOTTED MURDER’

December 7, 2010

Via BBC News The husband of a woman murdered on her honeymoon in South Africa plotted his wife’s death, one of three men charged with her killing has told prosecutors. Anni Dewani, 28, from Sweden, was shot after being kidnapped while in a taxi with her husband Shrien last month. Western Cape High Court heard taxi driver Zola Tongo allege he was offered 15,000 rand (£1,400) by Mr Dewani, 31, from Bristol, to kill his wife. Mr Dewani’s family described the allegations […]

UK NEWS: GIRL SHOT IN THE NECK AT TAKEAWAY IN EAST LONDON DIES

April 16, 2010

[Thanks Kaydine] Via BBC News A 16-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at a takeaway restaurant in east London has died. Agnes Sina-Inakoju was shot through the window of Hoxton Chicken and Pizza on Hoxton Street in Hackney by two people on bikes on Wednesday night. She was taken to a local hospital but died on Friday morning, police said. Continue Reading…. This is so sad. What a waste of a young life. As for the lowlife responsible for her death, I just hope […]

UK NEWS: VICTORIA STATION VICTIM, 15, KILLED IN PRE-ARRANGED FIGHT BETWEEN FUEDING SCHOOL BOY GANGS

March 27, 2010

Via The Mail Online A 15-year-old boy murdered in a horrific mob stabbing at one of Britain’s busiest railway stations may have been killed during a pre-arranged fight, the detective leading the investigation said today. The teenager, from Acton, west London, suffered multiple stab wounds during the during rush hour attack at Victoria underground station, in central London, on Thursday. He was named as London-born Sofyen Belamouadden, a pupil at the Henry Compton School in Fulham. Twenty boys aged 14 to 17 […]

UK NEWS: MAN GIVEN 20 YEARS FOR MATALAN SHOP MURDER

March 22, 2010

Via BBC News A 19-year-old man who was found guilty of murdering a Matalan shop manager has been sentenced to life with a minimum 20-year term. Kobina Essel stabbed Jamie Simpson, 33, during a botched robbery in March 2008. Mr Simpson was stabbed in the neck with a 10-inch knife during the hold-up at the store in Hackney, east London. Essel, of Manor Park, east London, was found guilty of the murder by an Old Bailey jury in February. He had denied […]

UK NEWS: RAPPERS CONVICTED OF TRYING TO SCARE OFF WITNESSES TO A MURDER

October 7, 2009

Via The Metro Two rappers have been convicted of trying to scare off witnesses to a murder in a song placed online. The ‘chilling’ song by Ishmael McLean, 22, and 18-year-old Rowan Simon warned people they could be shot for talking to police, the Old Bailey heard. It had been placed on YouTube with links to MySpace and Facebook following the murder of 24-year-old Jason Johnson in Ealing, west London, last November. Simon and McLean, both from west London, were among eight […]

POLICE OFFICER RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING DEAD UNARMED BLACK MAN ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF MURDER

January 14, 2009

It’s about time! The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said. Johannes Mehserle, 27, was arrested in the New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old supermarket worker from Hayward who was lying facedown after being pulled off a BART train by police investigating a fight. An Alameda County judge signed an arrest warrant […]