The holidaymaker, 37, had reportedly drunk cheap shots before trying to find his way home from the beach event on the island of Koh Phangan. He is understood to have visited a cash machine.

The trial of a French man and dozens of strangers who he enlisted to rape his heavily-sedated wife has adjourned for deliberations ahead of a verdict later this week, the presiding judge said.

'These people need to go to prison,' Trump's FBI pick has said of Biden, Harris, Obama and others, echoing Trump's long-expressed desire to prosecute foes.

Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013, has reportedly found love again with a long-term family friend, who he has bonded with over shared trauma

In a freewheeling press conference at his Mar-a-Lago club, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he would consider pardoning embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, declared the country was “not going to lose" the polio vaccine and weighed in on the flurry of drone sightings over New Jersey.

Julie Winnard was 40 when she slapped and squeezed the bottom of the 15-year-old lad

Dominique Pélicot, 71, begged his wife and family for forgiveness on the final day of testimony at the a three-and-a-half month 'aggravated rape' hearing, before the jury retired

Stephen McGhee, 48, was ordered to serve at least 21 years in prison before he becomes eligible to seek release on parole following the slaying of Kevan Doyle in Wishaw, in North Lanarkshire.

One ex-investment banker said it was not unusual for work days at the San Francisco office to start at 4am to link up with clients on the East Coast, ending around 2am the next day.

Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc will be sworn in as finance minister this afternoon, a senior government official has confirmed.

The family of Cian Gallagher said three young men who had stopped to help and protect Cian as he lay on the ground 'when we as his family could not, are role models'

Julie Winnard (pictured) was charged with four allegations of sexual assault after the boy, 15, told a social worker of his 'uncomfortable' encounters over a 13 month period.

Patrick Murphy has been jailed for life for the murder of Joseph Brosnan in Kerry

A man has been convicted of manslaughter for the killing of a 28-year-old man whose body he left in a wardrobe in his home for four days.

Caffrey has been convicted after a 10 week trial over the killing of Sean McCarthy

Paedophile Christopher Flavin was a boys football club coach and teacher with a long track record of abuse in the Bristol area

Mr Isaacs has been described as a 'warrior' who'd battled back to health following a cancer diagnosis

A 52-year-old man who stabbed a man to death in a "drunken rage", in what a judge described as a "cowardly" and "defenceless" attack, has been sentenced to life in prison.

David Dunne murdered Robert O'Connor with 'violence was totally unwarranted'

The predator - serving a life sentence - has allegedly been attacked in prison

A round-up of court cases from Tayside and Fife.

Victim of unsolved Salford murder to be finally buried a year on

A prisoner, who was convicted of murdering a fellow inmate by luring him to a cell, knocking him to the ground and stamping on his head in a "vicious and unprovoked" assault, has been given a life sentence.

Analysis - China's leader purged one of his closest proteges in the military last month. Experts say it raises questions over his ability to end systematic corruption.

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A B.C. Supreme Court judge in Smithers sentenced a Lake Babine Nation hereditary chief on Monday, Dec. 16 to two years less a day — including 18 months house arrest — for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in Burns Lake.

The nurse coerced the patient into a relationship where he took advantage of her and began sexually assaulting her

The old saying is that a week is a long time in politics.

He started grooming the victim when she was just 11-year-old

Thomas Wright, 22, committed suicide on Dartmoor after he was charged with rape at University and dropped out of his course.

Lindami Mremi, 22, had been boozing with pals at a 'bottomless brunch' before getting behind the wheel of a friend's Fiat Punto and crashing on Robin's Wood Road in Aspley, Nottingham.

The Central Criminal Court heard that after he had seen to his wife's escape, Anthony O'Brien and his daughter Nadine were found wrapped in one another's arms when fire crews battled their way into the smoke-filled house

Six-year-old Mohammed Yaseen Uddin was found dead in his bed on after being sent home from Marlborough Primary School in Small Heath, Birmingham the day before.

A criminology student accused of murdering a personal trainer in a 'ferocious' attack on a beach 'wanted to be the star of a true crime episode' in a 'motiveless killing'

A former prison guard trainee who executed five women inside a Florida bank almost six years ago was sentenced to death on Monday as his judge called the slayings calculated, heinous and cruel. Zephen Xaver, 27, appeared to gulp but otherwise showed no emotion as Circuit Judge Angela Cowden pronounced the sentence at the Highlands County Courthouse in Sebring. After a two-week penalty trial, a jury in June voted 9-3 to recommend that Cowden sentence Xaver to death.

Many of the president-elect's former critics and adversaries have made overtures since his election victory.

President-elect Trump sought to thread a needle during his Monday press conference at Mar-a-Lago, pushing back at suggestions that his incoming administration would be dangerously radical, even as he avoided any whiff of actual backsliding. The version of Trump who appeared before reporters at his Florida resort was — at times — tonally different from…

Alex Spiro said the allegations from the woman who has accused Jay Z of sexually assaulting her with P Diddy in 2000 are "all a fantasy".

Children in West Bengal are being maimed and killed by bombs, used for decades in the state's violent politics.

Stephen McGhee was told he'll be locked up for at least 21 years before he is eligible for parole for killing Kevan Doyle (pictured) in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire.

He 'put lives at risk,' but he's been spared immediate custody

Eugene O’Sullivan survived coming face to face with an IRA gang in an infamous shootout in Leitrim in 1983, which claimed the lives of Garda Gary Sheehan and Army Private Patrick Kelly

“I was surrounded by many negative influences, but I made a conscious decision not to let them define me,” was Jamar Howell’s, sales and relationship manager at JN Bank, determination as he navigated his way from a divided inner-city community into...

Kris Hutton took exception to being asked to provide ID and attacked the door steward.

Zachary Bradford, from Kirkintilloch, near Glasgow, may have just weeks to live as he waits for a small bowel and liver transplant - but he got a special visit from Santa

It's a bittersweet return for residents of Homs, which was the site of a brutal years-long siege.

Xavier Carter pleaded guilty to attempting to engage in sexual community with a child

Joseph Corcoran, convicted in 1997 killings, faces Indiana's first execution in 15 years amid mental illness claims and legal battles.

Many of the royals are keen motorists, Princes William and Harry both passed their driving tests the first time soon after their 17th birthdays.