WHEN skint grandad Rodney Baldus got an email saying he was due an inheritance of £8.3 million from a long-lost relative, he initially filed it to trash. The 70-year-old had a hunch it was a scam, but when the legal-looking emails offered to pay his flights to Mozambique to sort out the paperwork, Rodney got … Read more
On Friday evening, tragedy struck in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria, when a five-year-old child was fatally injured during a hijacking incident involving his father’s bakkie outside their home. Gauteng police are currently looking for suspects. Five year old killed in hijacking According to Police spokesperson Lt-Col Mavela Masondo, the child reportedly went outside to greet … Read more
COPS were last night forced to gun down a crossbow-wielding man after an officer was shot in the leg. Police scrambled to a home in the quiet Buckinghamshire village of Downley at 6pm yesterday after a man in his sixties was stabbed. 3 Cops at the scene in Buckinghamshire last nightCredit: LNP 3 An officer … Read more
EERIE CCTV shows the last sighting of a 24-year-old woman who vanished five days ago. The footage shows missing Leah Daley wearing a dark hooded jacket and carrying a backpack. 4 Leah Daley has been missing for nearly a weekCredit: KentLive/BPM 4 CCTV shows the 24-year-old in Folkestone town centreCredit: KentLive/BPM 4 A map of … Read more
SINGAPORE: Three more men have been charged in court over their alleged roles in an armed gang robbery at a residence along King Albert Park in Bukit Timah last month that involved more than S$4.34 million (US$3.2 million) in cash, cryptocurrency and other valuables. Malaysians Kartik Palaniappan, 31, Mohd Hamidon Ahmed, 47, and Mohd Hashim Ismail, … Read more
A MAN who went viral after a dress bought for his wedding “broke the internet” is now behind bars for a brutal assault on his wife. Keir Johnston turned on terrified Grace Johnston – at one stage threatening: “Somebody is going to die”. 2 Cecilia Bleasdale in her black and blue dress beside newlyweds Grace … Read more
SINGAPORE: A woman who had reported Ken Lim Chih Chiang after his alleged indecent remarks towards her had harboured “some small hope” of being signed to his record label, the court heard on Thursday (May 9). Lim, who was the executive director of record label Hype Records at the time, is standing trial on one … Read more
The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to bank and tax fraud in a sports betting case in which prosecutors allege he stole nearly US$17 million from the Japanese baseball player to pay off debts, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The scandal surrounding Ippei Mizuhara shocked baseball fans … Read more
A TEACHER has arrived at court where she is accused of having sex with two teens – including one who got her pregnant. Rebecca Joynes, 30, is currently on trial over the alleged sexual relationships with the two pupils. 4 Rebecca Joynes, pictured with her dad, has arrived at courtCredit: Steve Allen 4 The teacher, … Read more
A seasoned traveler has detailed the brutal realities of spending 24 hours in the world’s highest town in Peru as he branded it his ‘scariest travel experience’ ever, with crime and pollution rife – not to mention the dizzying lack of oxygen and frigid climate. Ammar Kandil, who is a co-founder of the YouTube channel … Read more
