Life Sentence

Yoon Files Appeal Against Life Sentence For Insurrection

February 24, 2026 3:17 am

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol filed an appeal against his life sentence on Tuesday, five days after a Seoul court found him guilty of ringleading an insurrection through his short-lived imposition of martial law, opening a second phase of legal proceedings that will carry the country’s most consequential criminal trial in thirty years to the Seoul High Court and, almost certainly, eventually to the Supreme Court.

Yoon’s lawyers submitted the notice of appeal to the Seoul Central District Court, which handed down the life sentence last Thursday.

In a statement accompanying the filing, his legal team said they …

David Carrick Life Sentence Extended After New Convictions

November 20, 2025 6:51 am

Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick received another life sentence on Wednesday after a jury found him guilty of abusing a twelve year old girl in the late nineteen eighties and raping a former partner decades later.

Carrick who is fifty had already been serving thirty six life sentences with a minimum term of thirty two years for seventy one offences of sexual violence committed across seventeen years. The new sentence adds to a criminal record that prosecutors describe as one of the most severe ever brought against a British police officer.

Carrick was convicted of five counts of indecent …

ICC Life Sentence Sought For Ali Kushayb Over Darfur Crimes

November 18, 2025 5:19 am

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have asked judges to impose a life sentence on Sudanese militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, saying the severity of his crimes in Darfur more than twenty years ago warrants the court’s maximum punishment.

The sentencing hearings opened Tuesday in The Hague, one month after Abd-Al-Rahman was found guilty of 27 counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The request marks a historic moment for the court. Abd-Al-Rahman, widely known as Ali Kushayb, is the first person convicted by the ICC for atrocities committed in Darfur, where government-backed Janjaweed fighters carried out a …