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The criminals jailed in Greater Manchester this week

A look back at those sentenced in our criminal courts this week

Manchester Evening News

Philippines: After decades of terror, peace returns to island of Jolo

For a long time, the island of Jolo, one of the southernmost points of the Philippines archipelago, was off limits. It was the stronghold of one of the most violent terrorist movements in the world, Abu Sayyaf. In 2000, a group of 20 tourists were kidnapped in Malaysia and taken…

France 24

Paedophile handed in by his dad after he saw CCTV image

Lewis Jones kidnapped a six-year-old girl before violently attacking her

Liverpool Echo

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'My sick boyfriend kidnapped me from the street to propose - I might press charges'

TRIGGER WARNING. A woman has taken to social media to seek support after being 'kidnapped' as part of an elaborate proposal, saying she is now considering pressing charges against her boyfriend and his friends

Daily Mirror

Kidnapped NZ pilot: Indonesian army attacks put him at risk

Separatist rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua region have released a video appearing to show the New Zealand pilot they took hostage in February saying that recent Indonesian military attacks threatened his safety

The Independent UK

Paedophile was under investigation for child sex abuse when he kidnapped girl, 6

Lewis Jones was seen taking pictures of children before he snatched and sexually assaulted the girl

Liverpool Echo

‘Dead or Alive’: Iraq’s Yazidis Anxiously Await ISIS-abducted Relatives

After paying nearly $100,000 in ransoms to free 10 family members, Khaled Taalou, a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, is still working to free other missing relatives kidnapped by ISIS group fighters. Despite his efforts, five more relatives, along with thousands of other Yazidis, remain missing after being abducted by…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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'Dead or alive': Iraq's Yazidis anxiously await IS-abducted relatives

Sharya (Iraq) (AFP) - After paying nearly $100,000 in ransoms to free 10 family members, Khaled Taalou, a member of Iraq's Yazidi minority, is still working to free other missing relatives kidnapped by Islamic State group fighters.

AFP

Boy, 16, kidnapped by four men with ‘Irish accents’ in black Mini

Three men ‘shouted aggressively’ at the boy and forced him into the car, police say

Evening Standard

College student who killed a man with sword sentenced twice to 55 years in prison

Two courts issued separate prison sentences to a man who attacked two people with a samurai sword, fatally shot a former classmate, kidnapped a woman and led police on a six-day manhunt in 2020.

WEKU

Mother terrified by AI voice of her 15-year-old daughter used to stage fake kidnapping

A woman in Arizona was horrified to hear her daughter's voice saying she had been kidnapped. But in reality it was an AI scam.

Tom’s Guide

American kidnapped in Mexico arrested for gun and child delinquency charges days after TV appearance

The incident occurred before Ms McGee’s tragic trip to Mexico

The Independent UK

Love Island’s Chloe Burrows reveals she once kidnapped a boyfriend’s dog after being told he cheated on her

The reality TV star, 27, shared the story on her podcast, Chloe Vs The World

Evening Standard

Love Island's Chloe Burrows kidnapped boyfriend's dog after finding out he cheated on her

Love Island's Chloe Burrows has admitted to bundling her ex-boyfriend's dog into a taxi after being told her beau had been seeing another girl behind her back

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Reuters

Nigerian students escape abductors two weeks after kidnapping

Eight Nigerian secondary school students kidnapped by gunmen in northern Kaduna state two weeks ago escaped from their captors and were found by villagers who alerted security forces on Tuesday, the state's internal security commissioner said.

The Guardian - UK

Kidnapped review – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife

Older, American and previously divorced, Frances Stevenson frames the National Theatre of Scotland’s pantomime-inspired recasting of the novelist’s adventure classic

Daily Mirror

Nightclub pair kidnapped women and one went for McDonald's after raping his victim

When Badr Alhadidi and Dhari Alshammari were confronted with CCTV of the women being dragged on the pavement and forced into a property - they laughed and claimed the women were sober and consenting

The Independent UK

Two surviving Americans kidnapped by Mexican cartel speak out for first time

LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams recounted their horrific ordeal in Matamoros

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Body found in search for woman last seen with man who 'kidnapped and tried to kill son'

Leticia Martinez-Cosman was last seen at a Seattle Mariners bsaeball game in a selfie of her with 46-year-old Brett Glitchel - who later allegedly kidnapped and attempted to strangle her son

The Conversation

The Super Mario Bros. Movie: don't watch it for the story but for how it successfully represents gameplay

The first videogame I ever played was the arcade game Donkey Kong. Released in 1981, it took us into a blocky-looking world where a carpenter in overalls raced along platforms and up ladders in a building site to rescue a lady kidnapped by a large ape. Its humble hero, Mario,…

Daily Mirror

FBI launch desperate search with $10,000 reward for American man kidnapped in Mexico

US citizen Edgar Perez Chairez, 35, who is also known as 'Polvos', was abducted near the corner of Avenida Tabasco and Calle Chilpancingo in Mexicali, Mexico

Evening Standard

Cleo Smith: Man who kidnapped youngster in high-profile Australia abduction jailed for 13 years

Terence Kelly, 37, abducted a sleeping Cleo Smith from a remote campsite in the early hours of October 16 2021

Reuters

Australian man jailed for 13 years in Cleo Smith kidnapping

A man who kidnapped a four-year-old girl in Western Australia and held her captive for 18 days was sentenced to more than 13 years in prison on Wednesday, in a case that gripped the country.

Reuters

Gunmen in Nigeria seize eight students in latest kidnapping

Gunmen in Nigeria's northern Kaduna state kidnapped eight secondary school students coming from school along with an unknown number of others, authorities said on Tuesday, the latest in a wave of such abductions.

Asharq Al-Awsat

IRGC Retracts Statements Confirming Death of Leader Kidnapped in Lebanon in 1982

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps retracted its confirmation of the killing of the military attaché, Ahmad Motevaselian, who disappeared in Beirut 41 years ago. IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said they still have no reliable information regarding the condition and fate of Motevaselian and his companions, who were kidnapped in northern…

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