In 2002, three women from Cleveland, Ohio went missing. In May this year, after 11 years in captivity Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight emerged from the basement of Ariel Castro’s house, after Amanda and her new baby managed to escape and alert authorities with the help of this guy. Now, Michelle Knight has come clean about some of the things that their captor, Ariel Castro, had done to them.
Everybody knows the the people at News Of The World are a bunch of lying, hacking, no-good, low-lifes – but it needs to be proven in court before any punitive action can be taken. And now, former News International (NOTW’s parent company) chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, stands accused by the prosecution of orchestrating a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice by using News International employees and resources to hide or destroy notebooks, computers and emails that would prove that NOTW had repeatedly broken the law.
Meet Loyiso Nkohla. Loyiso is the ANC councillor for Ward 98 in Khayelitsha, and a member of the Cape Town provincial Health Portfolio Committee. Loyiso is the man who may be responsible for the riots in Cape Town’s CBD today. This last weekend, Nkohla addressed a gathering of residents in Nyanga’s KTC Hall. The meeting […]
A video has surfaced that shows a pupil at Sizimele High School in Dannhauser, KwaZulu-Natal being murdered in full view of other pupils at his school. Bongani Nkabinde was beaten and speared to death in a fight with other pupils. The horrifying attack happened just after pupils attended their morning assembly.
John Julyan is a former Western Cape relationship manager at Barclays Wealth (a division of Absa). He is also a very naughty man. Not “use tax-payers money to buy porn” level of naughty, but more “steal more money than I can carry” kind of naughty. He was so naughty that he was found guilty on Monday of 39 counts of theft, totalling R15 million.
Remember that story we posted about the bikers who chased down a Ranger Rover and beat up the driver? We have some new footage that reveals just what happened when the driver got a stuck in traffic. There’s some hectic footage of the guy being dragged out of the car and beaten up, but what’s really interesting is the emerging story of an undercover cop who, in a bid to remain undercover, got involved in the carnage himself.
Hold the phones. Now that the torrential rain has cleared, violent crime has resumed with great gusto in Johannesburg. A shootout occurred on the M1 southbound outside Killarney, and has prompted the closure of lanes in both directions – mostly because and effing helicopter just landed on the highway. Please enjoy these pics.
Aah, Bedfordview. Situated between the shady suburbs of Kensington and Glendower, it’s the perfect place to take your kids for a sunny stroll through the leafy avenues – and maybe stop for a coffee at an Italian restaurant. Where you’ll overhear someone ordering a hit on a rival.
We have been sent in this picture taken today on the streets of Woodstock, showing a child in a pram, left in the care of a man who is passed out on the pavement.
Nechama Brodie (who commonly writes for Africa Check) has penned an extensive analysis of crime data in South Africa in response to South African pop singer and occasional ‘7de Laan’ villain, Steve Hofmeyr’s repeated claims that white people in South Africa are suffering a genocide at the hands of black compatriots.
Chopper Read, one of Australia’s roughest criminals and best-selling authors has died at age 58 of liver cancer. Read spent 23 years in jail, before being released in 1998. I wonder if Neville will be at the funeral.
The Independent Police Investigative Directorate’s acting executive director, Koekie Mbeki, said her directorate was investigating 168 cases in which SAPS cops were accused of rape. She went on to say that the figure was “substantially higher” than the 40 rape cases reported in the preceding financial year – you don’t say.
Well, this is depressing. What you have here is your standard pickpocket operation of multiple crooks fulfilling various rolls including lookout, distraction, and thief. Except that in this case the thief is a seven-year-old girl. The video description reports that the theft took place in Norwood. At this point there isn’t very much information to go […]
Welcome to Glenvista High School in Gauteng, where a pupil named Anthony attacked his teacher with a plastic chair, and with a broom, much to the delight of his class mates.
Well, this is bad news. The the annual crime statistics were released in Pretoria today, and revealed that the murder rate is up 0.6% this year after an annual decline since 2007. And there are loads more people trying to kill other people, but not succeeding. Attempted murder has also increased 6,5% over the past year.
Court documents filed this week recommend that a man going by the online moniker of ‘Fat Longpig’ should be jailed for 27 years for planning the kidnap, rape and eventual cannibalisation of children.
It’s tricky to plead not guilty to drinking and driving, when there is a YouTube video that you previously posted, admitting to killing a man whilst driving drunk.
Videos are emerging online following an alleged poison gas attack outside Damascus on Wednesday. The Huffington Post has reported that the footage can not be independently verified. A Syrian activist, Mohammed Saeed, said in an interview with the Associated Press: The visit by the U.N. team is a joke. … Bashar [Assad] is using the […]
The inimitable Barry Bateman and Mandy Wiener form EWN have revealed this morning that the state will be pursuing a life sentence as the mandatory minimum punishment in their case against murder accused Oscar Pistorius. Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp in his Pretoria home on Valentine’s Day this year. The state will […]
Behold the royal mug shot of Romanian Pricess, Princess Irina. She has been arrested for masterminding a large cockfighting ring in Eastern Oregon, because what else is there to do in Oregon?
A British grandmother is wasting away on death row in Bali for smuggling cocaine. Housed at Kerobokan jail, which is nicknamed ‘Hotel K’, 57-year-old Lindsay Sandiford is awaiting her death. Lindsay was sentenced in January of this year for smuggling £1,5 million (R23,702,674) worth of cocaine into Bali.
If you’re stuck in an office without a television or bouncing from meeting to meeting this morning, you can stream the Oscar Pistorius court appearance analysis straight to your desktop or mobile, right here.
During the WWE Smack Down world tour last night in Cape Town, Randy Orton got an unpleasant surprise. Click through to check out the video.
After the Spanish train crash in the North West region of Galicia killed over 80 people when it derailed, there has been much discussion about the train driver. Francisco Jose Garzon Amo has already been caught out for talking about speeding on Facebook, but now the man who allowed the train to allegedly travel at […]
When an Indian maharajah crowned at a young age passed away (after the depression caused by his son’s death), his daughters were left with nothing near what they deserved. Instead of getting what they thought was there birthright fortune, they were given only a few dollars a month from the palace officials that they suspected to have […]
US sex writer, Dan Savage, widely known for his online campaign against homophobic senator Rick Santorum, has joined forces with gay and lesbian activists in Russia in order to protest against the countries persecution of homosexuals, they decided to target what Russia loves the most, their vodka. To shine a much needed light on new laws […]
This is classic Bronx. According to the person who uploaded this video, the enraged woman beating the car with a golf club is the wife of the car owner. No one is sure what led to the incident, or what happened afterwards, but we can assume that some damage to the relationship was done. Enjoy, […]
Youth in revolt. On Sunday evening, police in riot attire headed down to Huntington Beach to break up a raging crowd after the US Open of Surfing. It was reported that the ruckus started at around 19h00 once the competition had concluded and the Huntington Beach Police even had to ask for help from neighbouring agencies. According […]
Erik Chevalier came up with a “nerd-approved” board game that he used to trick people into giving him money. The people who fell for the trap, ended up giving away over R1 million to a guy that was taking them for a ride. This is what The Doom That Came To Atlantic City was about: […]
On Wednesday evening, a Spanish train in the North West region of Galicia killed over 80 people after derailing. In the latest news, Francisco Jose Garzon de Amo, the train driver, is now being watched by police guard in hospital and is being placed under investigation as a result of the accident. The 52-year-old man […]