Life Sentence

David Carrick Life Sentence Extended After New Convictions

David Carrick Life Sentence Extended After New Convictions

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

ICC Life Sentence Sought For Ali Kushayb Over Darfur Crimes

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 …