Meagan Simmons, known on the Internet as the “Attractive Convict,” gained notoriety for her 2010 DUI mug shot, last year. Her mug shot was used in memes that made rounds across the web last year, and she’s making the news again, this time for suing InstantCheckmate.com.
Remember the time when four Afrikaans teenagers beat a homeless black person to death for fun? They went to jail after protesting their innocence, where they took muscle enhancing stimulants and threw dorm parties before behaving like the smuggest people in the world when they were granted parole. Remember those guys? Two of them are going back to Sing-Sing.
Katerina Krejcirova is the wife of Radovan Krejcir, who is facing charges of kidnapping and attempted murder. She was arrested during her husband’s bail hearing. Armed police officials escorted Katerina out of the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court, in connection with an allegedly stolen car found on the couple’s property.
This man has no effs to give. 21-year-old, Daniel Kowalski was arrested in Cook (yes) County in the States, and charged with charged with two counts of possession of a controlled substance and possession of methamphetamine manufacturing materials – he was running a meth lab out of his home. Please enjoy the t-shirt he put on for his mugshot.
Today in the Constitutional Court Auction Alliance won a long running case against the Estate Agency Affairs Board. The Constitutional Court has now confirmed a previous order of the Western Cape High Court which declared sections of the Estate Agency Affairs Act and the Financial Intelligence Centre Act as unconstitutional and invalid. Auction Alliance’s legal council, […]
Sanele Goodness May – the driver of the truck that caused the horrific collision on 5 September last year in Pinetown – will not face murder charges. The Directorate of Public Prosecutions have amended 24 charges of murder faced by May to culpable homicide.
The trial of Oscar Pistorius will be partially televised. Thus spake Judge Dunstan Mlambo at the North Gauteng High Court.
Leave it to the tax man to get the job done. An investigation by the SARS elite Tax and Customs Enforcement Investigations (TCEI) unit has linked members of the Zuma family to organised crime. Two of the companies under investigation had employed Zuma’s son, Edward, and his nephew, Khulubuse. They are thought to have been employed as “political insurance.”
Being a Mexican cartel kingpin pays really well. After a decade long manhunt, the elusive Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán was detained in Mazatlán, Mexico. Rated as the number one supplier of illegal drugs in the US, he even made the Forbes billionaire list.
If you’re going to be a complete a-hole and threaten people with a fake gun as you drive by, it’s probably best not to post those hijinks to any kind of social media. Twenty-one-year-old Daron Stinson is facing a host of felonies after he “pretended” to rob and shoot at frightened pedestrians with a pellet […]
Welcome to Sudan, where you’ll be sentenced to one month jail for “indecent activity” if you’re unlucky enough to suffer gang rape. On the one hand, you get off “lightly” when authorities suspend the sentence because you’re pregnant. On the other hand, you also get fined $625. That’s what happened to an Ethiopian teenager in […]
EWN reports that details of the state’s case against murder accused, Oscar Pistorius have been leaked. The state has set out 13 facts on which it will base the bulk of its argument. They will argue that Pistorius told security guards moments after shooting Reeva Steenkamp that everything was fine at his Pretoria East home. Check out the rest of their case, below.
What you have here is a BBC documentary crew interviewing a homeless Angolan musician on the streets of Glasgow, only for racist Laurel and Hardy to rock up, and pick a fight with the guy. He humiliates them.
Two people are hoping to show that crowdfunding should not only be used to launch the next app or indie film, but to make the world that tiny bit better. Pete and Sarah Portal are trying to save Manenberg by inspiring change in one of Cape Town’s most gang-infested communities. Here’s how you can help.
With the world gearing up for South Africa’s highest profile court case ever, the spotlight will be on Judge Thokozile Matilda Masipa as she takes charge of Oscar Pistorius’ case. During her 15 year experience as a judge she has had many high profile cases but this one will be a greater challenge with world media looking on.
The tax man has his eyes set firmly on bikini model Candice Van Der Merwe. The SA model claims she received R168 million from an anonymous Arab benefactor, but SARS isn’t taking Candice on her word.
He might be this years forerunner for being the dumbest criminal. Not only did he post a video of himself racing through traffic on the San Antonio police department’s Facebook page, writing “Catch me if you can,” it was done under his name. It turns out the police could indeed catch the moronic Alberto Rodriguez.
For nine months the detectives investigating the Oscar Pistorius murder case, have been struggling with Pistorius’s iPhone. It is said that the country’s top police IT experts have had no success at gaining access to Pistorius’s iCloud account.
Two members of the Waterkloof Four have been re-arrested after a video was posted on the Internet, showing them having a party in Pretoria’s Kgosi Mampuru prison. They were re-arrested on claims of allegedly illegally smuggling in alcohol and cellphones into prison.
It didn’t take long for a porn company to offer the angel face killer Amanda Knox, a starring role in a porno. This came after countless fans emailed their favourite porn producers asking for Foxy Knox to appear and get her shag on in one of their films.
A video submitted to YouTube over the weekend purports to show luggage theft by a baggage handler on the afternoon of 7 February on the tarmac of Cape Town International Airport.
With the media interest around Woody Allen’s sexual abuse allegations going into top gear, Vanity Fair have published ’10 Undeniable Facts.’ about said allegations. Settle in.
With Woody Allen finally publicly responding to accusations that he molested Dylan Farrow, his alleged victim has responded, calling his article a “rehash of the same legalese, distortions, and outright lies he has leveled at me for the past 20 years.”
Often people ask what you would do after winning the Lotto. But here’s a new one – what would you do after you blew your winnings? Former multi-millionaire Dayalin Maslamoney has the answer… Rob someone for R250.
A peck on the cheek is all it took to nab a French jewel thief. DNA collected from when he kissed his hostage good-bye was enough to trace him down.
We’ve all received spam mail relating to something along the lines of a rich Nigerian Prince in dire need of your help to move funds out of the country. Well, this time it was a Nigerian engineer promising love, which left a grandmother dead.
Although this movie won’t be able to tell the full story, as it now seems far from over, it will make for interesting viewing. Starring Kate Beckinsale and Cara Delevingne. Check it out..
Woody Allen’s latest Oscar nomination has prompted his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, to write an open letter regarding the alleged sexual abuse claims that made headlines in 1993. Allen’s representatives have stated that he found the letter “untrue and disgraceful”.
Reports coming out of the UK are that murder-accused Shrien Dewani has lost his appeal against an extradition order that would see him flown to South Africa to stand trial for the 2010 murder of his wife, Anni Dewani. This, from EWN: In July 2013 Shrien Dewani lodged an appeal with the Supreme Court in […]
In case you were wondering how easy it is to heist a fast food joint, now you know. The 25-year-old male suspect allegedly asked for two cheeseburgers, pulled a toy gun on the unsuspecting cashier and made off with the contents of the till in his getaway car… sorry bicycle. He peddled away with R3,320 in cash, but left the cheeseburgers behind.