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A German court on Tuesday sentenced a Pakistan-born couple to life in jail for the “honour killing” of their 19-year-old daughter, who had had sex before marriage. The 52-year-old father was found guilty of strangling the teenager to death, and the 41-year-old mother was also jailed, as an accessory to …

An Indian court has sentenced two medical workers to a year in prison for embezzling 11 rupees (17 cents) in public funds more than 25 years ago, lawyers said on Thursday. The two — a nurse and a medical assistant — were found guilty of inflating the number of sterilisation …

A Bangladeshi asylum-seeker who sexually assaulted a young club-goer in Central London has been jailed for six months. Rickshaw driver Mohammed Hossain, 35, reportedly spotted his victim in the early hours of one morning in March.  She had been sobbing on the pavement after an argument with a friend. Hossain …

A father-and-son pair of teachers from a Birmingham Islamic School have been jailed after being found guilty of beating a 10-year-old student. Imam Mohammed Siddique, 60, and his some Mohammed Waqar, 24, punished the boy for apparent shortcomings during a Qur’an study session. Authorities became aware of the issue after …

Clockwise from top left: Mohammed Imran, Akbari Khan, Arshad Jani, Asif Hussain, Taimoor Khan, Vikram Singh Six men of South Asian origin involved in the infamous Aylesbury child abuse ring have been handed lengthy jail terms for grooming vulnerable under-age white girls for sex for as little as “the price …

An Indian who worked as a baby sitter in Connecticut has been jailed for 14 years in for the death of a 19-month-old boy in her care last year. Kinjal Patel, 29, was sentenced on Wednesday under a plea deal entered in Superior Court in New Haven in which she …

A “depraved” Punjabi-origin care worker has been jailed for a decade after she was found guilty of sexually assaulting patients in her care – one of them 101 years old. Christina Sethi, from Devon, filmed herself assaulting three vulnerable patients at a care home in the town of Torquay before …

These are the six British Asian “masterminds” jailed today over an horrific sex abuse ring which saw girls as young as 12 abused repeatedly by dozens of men. The men, from various parts of the UK, were among 11 who went on trial at the Old Bailey in London for …

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in prison after he was convicted on Wednesday of killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run after a night out drinking. Judge D. W. Deshpande rejected the actor’s claims that his driver was to blame and found Khan guilty …

A Pakistani man from Rochdale has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stabbing his wife 15 times because she wanted to learn English. Nazakat Ali, 30, stabbed his wife Shahzana Kausar following an argument over her wish to enrol at a college to study English in preparation to …