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Terence Kelly sentenced over abduction of Cleo Smith near Carnarvon in WA's outback

Terence Kelly is sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison for kidnapping four-year-old Cleo Smith near Carnarvon in Western Australia's outback and holding her captive for 18 days.

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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.

Reuters

Kidnappers flee after killing female Chinese student

Police suspect three Chinese men have left the country after kidnapping a female Chinese university student and then killing her when they failed to obtain a 2.5-million-baht ransom from her father in China.

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Kidnappers flee after killing female Chinese student

Police suspected three Chinese men had fled the country after kidnapping a female Chinese university student and then killing her when they failed to obtain a 2.5-million-baht ransom from her father in China.

Bangkok Post

Dad beat, strangled and kidnapped wife with child in the car in three days of horror

Nathanial Corkish dragged his wife up the stairs by her neck before beating her with a hammer and kidnapping her

Liverpool Echo

Who is Cleotha Henderson: Ex-convict accused of abducting and killing Memphis heiress Eliza Fletcher

Former convict, who was released from prison in 2020 for kidnapping, is now facing trial for the kidnap and murder of Eliza Fletcher

The Independent UK

Murder of 12-year-old: SC notice to Delhi govt on father's plea seeking CBI probe

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Delhi government on a plea seeking a CBI investigation into a kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old boy in 2014.

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Gangster-turned politician Atiq Ahmad being taken back to Sabramati Jail amid tight security

Gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Umesh Pal kidnapping case, is being taken back to Sabarmati Jail in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. Read further on Dynamite News:

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"I'll be killed in two weeks...": Atiq Ahmed's brother, says "CM understands my pain"

Uttar Pradesh's mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed’s brother Ashraf Ahmed, one of the seven persons who have been acquitted in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case, on Tuesday claimed that an officer revealed that he will be killed in two weeks. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Man charged with kidnap and murder of 53-year-old in Leicester

A 37-year-old man remains in police custody

The Independent UK

Atiq Ahmed's hearing in Prayagraj court today; Slain Umesh Pal's kin seek death penalty, say "want his empire of terror to end"

Family of Umesh Pal, the lawyer who was abducted and killed, on Tuesday said that they want the mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, a prime accused in the case to be given the death sentence stating that they want his "empire of terror to end". Read further on Dynamite News:

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Iraq: the cultural resilience of a war-ravaged country

It is 20 years since the US-led invasion of Iraq, and the Foreign Office still advises against travel there, owing to risks including kidnapping. But although the country is “by no means stable”, it is “just about functioning as a rare Arab democracy”, says Sophy Roberts in the FT –…

The Week

Is Mexico safe for travelers? Weighing fear and reality

When the U.S. Department of State released a spring break travel advisory on March 13 warning travelers to take extra caution when visiting Mexico, the message rippled far, wide and fast. Broadcast news disseminated scary stories of illegal drugs and gang crime as reasons to reconsider vacation plans — most…

Tribune News Service

California jailbreak mastermind sentenced for daring escape

A man serving a life sentence for kidnapping and mutilating a marijuana dispensary owner has received additional time for masterminding a daring, elaborate escape from a Southern California jail

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17-year-old charged in kidnapping ending in Houston shooting

A 17-year-old has been charged with kidnapping two migrants whose rescue from a Houston hotel by FBI agents ended in gunfire that killed another suspect

Liverpool Echo

ITV Emmerdale fans accuse Noah of 'kidnapping' as he comes to blows with Samson

The characters have been at each others throats over the upbringing of baby Esther

Irish Mirror

Irishman ,18, charged with kidnapping and sexual assault at college house party in US

The alleged attack occurred at a house party on Easton Avenue in East Brunswick on February 19

Tribune News Service

Former Georgia police officer indicted in 16-year-old’s killing

ATLANTA — A former Doraville police officer accused of kidnapping and killing a 16-year-old Gwinnett County student was indicted Wednesday on murder and other charges, court records show.

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Exiled Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui on his graphic novel 'Dissident Club'

Taha Siddiqui is an award-winning former FRANCE 24 journalist who fled Pakistan after escaping a kidnapping attempt. He's now exiled in France and has since discovered he's on a kill list in Pakistan and can never return to his home country. In 2020, Taha opened a bar in Paris to…

Dynamite News

SC commutes death penalty of man who murdered 7-yr-old in TN

The Supreme Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence awarded to a Tamil Nadu man for the kidnapping and murdering of a seven-year-old boy in 2009. Read further on Dynamite News:

Tribune News Service

Couple sentenced to prison in notorious San Jose baby kidnapping

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A woman and her boyfriend were sentenced to prison Monday in the April kidnapping of a San Jose infant, drawing to a close a case that drew national notoriety because of its apparent motive — the woman’s desire to fool another extramarital lover into believing the…

The Independent UK

Gun used in kidnapping of Americans in Mexico came from US

Federal court documents say the a man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in the border…

Daily Mirror

Americans warned drug cartel kidnappings means Mexico 'has never been more dangerous'

Former officer of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) Michael Alcazar, has said that Americans travelling to Mexico during the spring break face severe dangers

Reason

International Criminal Court Issues War Crimes Arrest Warrant Against Vladimir Putin

The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mo. sheriff, two deputies charged in 'criminal street gang activity'

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Mo. — The sheriff of Iron County and two of his deputies are accused of "criminal street gang activity" in what prosecutors allege was a parental kidnapping plot to help a friend.

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