A German court has sentenced a 41-year-old palliative care doctor to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of murdering 15 patients between September 2021 and July 2024. The victims, aged between 25 and 94, were seriously ill but were not considered to be at immediate risk of death. Prosecutors said the doctor administered lethal doses […]
A German court has sentenced a Saudi psychiatrist to life in prison for driving a rented BMW into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg in December 2024, killing six people and injuring hundreds. The victims included five women aged between 45 and 75, as well as a nine-year-old boy. Prosecutors said the attack lasted just […]
A French court has sentenced former anaesthetist Frédéric Péchier, 53, to life imprisonment for deliberately poisoning 30 patients, 12 of whom died. The verdict was delivered at the end of a four-month trial in Besançon, marking one of the most serious medical crime cases in France’s history. Péchier will serve a minimum of 22 years […]
Austrian sex offender Josef Fritzl, notorious for imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven children with her, may be relocated from a high-security prison, as reported by local media. Now 88 and diagnosed with dementia, a recent psychiatric evaluation suggests that he no longer poses a threat to the public. This development opens […]
An Italian court has sentenced a Pakistani couple to life in prison for the murder of their 18-year-old daughter, Saman Abbas. She was killed because she refused an arranged marriage, and her body was discovered at a farmhouse in northern Italy in November 2022, 18 months after she went missing. Saman’s father, Shabbar Abbas, was […]
Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, one of the individuals convicted in connection with the 2006 murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been pardoned, according to his lawyer. Khadzhikurbanov, a former Moscow police officer, was sentenced to 20 years in 2014 for providing logistical support for the crime. His lawyer stated that he received a presidential pardon after






