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By , on May 20th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A jewellery trader has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly HK$7 million of diamonds from seven suppliers over six months and pawning most of the gems for cash. Chan Ho-wai, 44, was jailed for three years and eight months yesterday over seven counts of theft. The offences happened between April and October 2011. Prosecutor Laurence Poots told the Court of First Instance that 75 pieces of jewellery costing HK$5.8 million had been recovered from eight pawnshops. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A couple stood trial together yesterday after the wife tried to take the blame for her husband’s driving that caused the death of a 79-year-old woman. Wong Cheuk-yee, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of perverting the course of justice in the District Court. Her husband, Yeung Shiu-lung, 29, admitted to the same charge and five driving-related charges. The accident – which took place in Lam Tin on September 22 last year – claimed the life of Chan Sau-kam, 79. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A woman whose trial riveted viewers with details of sex and violence returns to court on Thursday, as the same jury that convicted her of first-degree murder last week in the death of her boyfriend now weighs whether the former waitress should be sentenced to life in prison or death. Jurors on Wednesday took less than three hours to determine that Jodi Arias should be eligible for the death penalty in the killing of her one-time lover after prosecutors proved the murder was especially cruel and heinous. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 
Criminals who kill police officers will face minimum whole life sentences, the home secretary will tell the Police Federation conference.
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Two men who assaulted a South China Morning Post photographer were given community-service sentences in Fan Ling Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. Cheng Shing-wing, 52, and Li Hak, 51, had each earlier pleaded guilty to one count of common assault. In sentencing the pair, Fan Ling Magistrate Wong Sze-lai described their actions as “inglorious” and “violent”. “The court shall deliver a clear message, that is, violence is never tolerated,” Wong said. “It must be subject to punishment.” <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A Philadelphia doctor was found guilty on Monday of murdering three babies during abortions at a clinic serving low-income women in a case that cast a national spotlight on the controversial practice of late-term abortions. Dr Kermit Gosnell, 72, who ran the now-shuttered Women’s Medical Society Clinic, faces the possibility of the death penalty. The case focused on whether the infants were born alive and then killed. He was accused of delivering live babies during late-term abortions and then deliberately severing their spinal cords. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In sentencing yesterday, Deputy Judge Mr Justice Gareth Lugar-Mawson described the case – involving cocaine with a street value of more than HK$500 million – as an extremely bad example of international drug trafficking. Saying he believed most of the cocaine was bound for the mainland, Lugar-Mawson said the law had to ensure Hong Kong would not become a drug transit centre in Asia. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A US soldier who killed five fellow servicemen in a shooting spree at a combat stress centre in Iraq acted with the tactical precision of a trained soldier as he moved through the clinic, an Army crime scene expert testified on Thursday. US Army Sergeant John Russell pleaded guilty last month to killing two medical staff officers and three soldiers at Camp Liberty in Baghdad in a 2009 shooting the military has said could have been triggered by combat stress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Arizona jury found Jodi Arias guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the death of her ex-boyfriend in a capital trial that riveted America for months with graphic sexual evidence and bizarre testimony. Arias, who could face the death penalty as her case goes into the penalty phase of the trial on Thursday, has admitted to shooting 30-year-old Travis Alexander, whose body was found in the shower of his Phoenix valley home in June 2008. He had been shot in the face, stabbed 27 times and his throat had been slashed. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An Italian court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his sentence of one year in prison and a five-year ban from public office. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Accused Colorado theatre gunman James Holmes, who could face the death penalty if convicted of murdering 12 moviegoers in a rampage last year, intends to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, according to court records released on Tuesday. Holmes, 25, is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder in connection with the July last year shooting spree in a suburban Denver cinema during a midnight screening of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 5th, 2013 Baz Luhrmann’s “Gatsby,” J. J. Abrams’s “Star Trek,” breakthrough performances, movie listings and more.
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By , on May 5th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> North Korea said on Sunday it had no intention of using an American it sentenced to hard labour for 15 years as a bargaining chip in talks with the United States. North Korea sentenced Kenneth Bae, a Korean American who travelled to visit North Korea last November, on Thursday for what is said were crimes against the state. North Korea has in the past used detained American as bargaining counters in dealings with the United States. But the North’s state news agency dismissed speculation it might do so again. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 3rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US called on Thursday for North Korea to grant amnesty and immediately release a Korean-American sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour for “hostile acts” against the state. Kenneth Bae, 44, a Washington state man described by friends as a devout Christian and a tour operator, is at least the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. The others eventually were deported or released without serving out their terms, some after trips to Pyongyang by prominent Americans, including former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Veteran BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall pleaded guilty to sex offences yesterday, the latest British TV star from the 1970s and 1980s to be embroiled in abuse allegations. Hall, 83, who was best known for hosting the family TV show It’s a Knockout and was still working for the BBC as a soccer radio commentator until recently, admitted 14 counts of indecent offences against young girls over two decades, with the youngest victim aged just nine. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A British millionaire was on Thursday jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. James McCormick made an estimated £50 million (HK$604 million) from selling the devices, which prosecutors said were based on a novelty golf ball finder and had no scientific basis. Last week, a jury at London’s Old Bailey found the 57-year-old guilty of three counts of fraud. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By CHOE SANG-HUN, on May 2nd, 2013 Efforts by the United States to break North Korea’s habit of blackmailing have been put to a major test with the sentencing of an American to 15 years of hard labor.
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By , on April 30th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In Fanling Court yesterday, Cheng Shing-wing and Li Hak pleaded guilty to one count each of common assault, but they denied they were parallel-goods traders. Magistrate Wong Sze-lai postponed sentencing to May 14. The two were released on bail. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ADAM LIPTAK, on April 29th, 2013 Youths not involved in murders should not be sentenced to die in prison, the justices ruled in 2010, but does a 100-year term violate that decision?
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By , on April 24th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The son of a Chinese official who was studying in Britain has been jailed for a year for trying to bribe a university professor to help him pass his degree. Yang Li, 26, was jailed for trying to bribe a Bath University professor with £5,000 (HK$59,052), the Daily Mail reported on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Merchant jailed for HK$7m of diamond thefts
<!– google_ad_section_start –> A jewellery trader has pleaded guilty to stealing nearly HK$7 million of diamonds from seven suppliers over six months and pawning most of the gems for cash. Chan Ho-wai, 44, was jailed for three years and eight months yesterday over seven counts of theft. The offences happened between April and October 2011. Prosecutor Laurence Poots told the Court of First Instance that 75 pieces of jewellery costing HK$5.8 million had been recovered from eight pawnshops. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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