It was hell, says acquitted head
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A primary school head speaks of "nine months of hell" as he is cleared of sexually assaulting a boy pupil.
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The case of the only man found guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Britain's biggest terrorist outrage that killed 270 people, could be reopened as it emerged that his conviction was based on unreliable evidence.
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An Egyptian who allegedly bragged that he masterminded the 2004 Madrid terror bombings that killed 191 people was acquitted of all charges Wednesday by a Spanish court. At least four others were convicted of murder, culminating a divisive trial over Europe's worst Islamic militant attack.
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A jury acquitted a businessman in his third trial on charges he sexually abused his stepdaughter over a three-year period.
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A video of the accused terrorist shows he was subjected to unduly harsh treatment, his lawyers claim, leaving him psychologically damaged and unfit to stand trial
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A BRITON who spent 18 years facing the death sentence in Pakistan for a murder he says he did not commit told today of the horror of hearing the sounds of fellow prisoners being executed just metres away.Comment
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Solicitor Pat Finucaneâs killer was jailed for minimum of 22 years at Belfast Crown Court today. Ken Barrett, 41, a police informer, was told by Mr Justice Weir that he had been involved in a cruel, callous
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It was a sensational case that seemed wrapped up when guilty verdicts and life sentences were announced earlier this year against two former police detectives accused of being hit men for the mob.
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An electrician was acquitted on Thursday of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing, the deadliest single attack in Northern Ireland's bloody history.
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RIVERHEAD, N.Y. -- A black man who invoked images of lynch mobs in explaining why he killed a white teenager has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter because a jury rejected defense lawyers' arguments that his actions were justified.
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Â· Court hears of 'honour killing' rape and torture Â· Jokes and laughter in description of murder
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Believing that Satan wanted her to drown her five children, Andrea Yates knew killing them was wrong and therefore wasn&#039;t insane as defined by law, a forensic psychiatrist testified Friday during her second murder trial.
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The gunman convicted of killing American nun and rain forest defender Dorothy Stang told the jury at his retrial Monday that he shot her out of fear and rage, court officials said.
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Former school caretaker Ian Huntley, who was convicted for the murder of two 10-year-old English schoolgirls, claims his ex-partner told him to burn their bodies.
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A FORMER US Marine said today his unit killed more than 30 innocent Iraqi civilians in just two days, in graphic testimony to a Canadian tribunal probing an asylum claim by a US Army deserter.
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The only Army officer to face a court-martial for the notorious detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was exonerated of mistreating detainees by a military jury yesterday, ending a series of prosecutions that stretched over more than three years.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Defense attorney Leslie Ballin called it the "jury pool from hell." The group of prospective jurors was summoned to listen to a case of Tennessee trailer park violence.