The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old man, Alabi Anthony, for allegedly raping and killing an elderly woman, Olaseni Veronica, in Iboropa community, Akoko North-East Local Government Area. The command’s spokesperson, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, said the suspect was apprehended following intelligence that led to the tracking of the vi...
•Mirabel The Ogun State Police Command has released TikToker Abigeal Nsikak, popularly known as Mirabel, to the State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development after she presented herself at a police station in connection with her widely publicised rape allegation. According to a statement issued by the Command’s Public Relations Office...
A Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a security guard, Emmanuel Buchi, to life imprisonment for raping a 37-year-old married nurse in a school clinic. Delivering judgment today, trial judge, Justice Rahman Oshodi, held that the prosecution successfully proved the offences of rape and assault occasioning harm agains...
•Actor Gerard Depardieu (R) and security official A French investigating judge has ordered cinema icon Gerard Depardieu to stand trial on charges of raping and sexually assaulting actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018, sources close to the case and a lawyer said today. The decision came after a Paris court handed Depardieu an 18-month suspended sent...
•Onu and scene of the incident Cyrus Onu, a lawyer for the female National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Jennifer Elobor, who was assaulted by local security agents in Anambra State, has said that the perpetrators had threatened to rape and kill her for speaking out during the incident. “They [security agents] were banging the […]...
The Imo State Police Command has arrested Pastor Ikenna Emmanuel and one Franklin Chizoba for allegedly raping a 20-year-old woman in Orlu. Police spokesperson Henry Okoye, in a statement this evening, said the suspects lured the victim to the pastor’s residence on June 30, 2025, under the guise of offering prayers for her. Upon arrival, [&hel...
The heightening insecurity situation in Nasarawa State, North Central Nigeria, has now hit the citadel of learning as students of the Federal University of Lafia have come under heavy attacks by bandits and armed thugs who rape and inflict varying degrees of injury on the affected students. Sources within the University community who pleaded s...
Iranian authorities executed three men in the north of the country today after they were sentenced to death for rape, the judiciary said. “The death sentences of three men convicted of rape were carried out this morning in the prison of the northern city of Gorgan,” local judiciary chief Heydar Asiabi was quoted as saying […]
•Thomas Partey Former Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey was today charged with five counts of rape and one count of sexual assault after complaints by three women, UK police said. The charges against the 32-year-old Ghana international relate to alleged offences that took place between 2021 and 2022, the Metropolitan Police force said in a stat...
•Ryland Headley A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades. DNA helped crack the rape case. Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on […]
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