WARNING: Please don’t watch this video if you’re a sensitive viewer. Two London locals who drove British soldier, Lee Rigby down with a vehicle before stabbing him to death and beheading him were shot by police on Wednesday afternoon.
Pretty graphic scenes in London, as two men allegedly hacked a soldier to death and chopped off his head with meat cleavers and machetes. The men chatted to cameras as it took cops 20 minutes to arrive. Then the shooting..
An interview between Amanda Knox and CNN’s Chris Cuomo that aired on Tuesday evening has come under fire for being insensitive and crude. Amanda Knox, who is been accused of murdering her room mate while studying abroad in Italy endured the hour and half long interview which covered the retrial Knox is facing.
‘Don’t count your chickens before they hatch” is an idiome Amanda Knox might have missed when she popped the champagne after her murder conviction was overturned in October, 2011 – an acquittal that has been overturned – again..
Murder accused, TJ Lane pleaded guilty last month to murdering three teenage boys in a school shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio on February 27 2012. While in court yesterday, Lane removed his light blue button up shirt to show off a t-shirt which had “KILLER” scribbled onto it. As the Ohio judge sentenced […]
Prosecuters have confirmed that they are considering laying charges against Mandikizela-Mandela for the murder of two young men in the 1980s. Forensic scientists last week exhumed two skeletons with multiple stab wounds that they believe belong to Lolo Sono, 21, and Siboniso Shabalala, 19, who reportedly had gone to Madikizela-Mandela’s home to get help to […]
Pic by Mike Eloff. Around 06h00 this morning, an accident was reported at the Strand and Buitengracht Street intersection, leading to the road’s closure. But why did it take so long for police to clear the wreckage? What you didn’t know, is that this is a murder scene. According to officers on the scene, a […]
Earlier this morning, Magistrate Nair convened the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court for murder accused, Oscar Pistorius’ bail hearing to begin. Nair questioned counsel with regards to the understanding of premeditated and planned murder, but Nair was not convinced with defence council Roux’s rendition and read case law for a better understanding. Nair asked state prosecutor Nel why he […]
Oscar Pistorius arrived early this morning at the Pretoria Magistrates Court to hear the outcome of his bail application hearing. Meanwhile outside the court, African National Congress Women’s League protesters were chanting and holding placards that read, “Oscar Pistorius must rot in jail”. Magistrate Desmond Nair was the presiding judge, and before proceeding asked Pistorius if he […]
It turns out the widely-covered story about Oscar Pistorius killing his girlfriend because he thought she was a burglar, is completely false. Not only that, but apparently there were ‘witnesses’ who heard screaming and shouting.
A tongue-in-cheek November 2012 article featured on 2oceansvibe has returned to the spotlight. What was originally an article about jealousy, turns out to reveal some relevant insight. This, following Oscar Pistorius’ alleged killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
Charlie Sheen is crying out to Christopher Dorner, the rouge ex-police cop who allegedly killed three people, to call him to talk about his crimes. On Saturday, Sheen released this video urging Dorner to contact him, after the actor was mentioned in Mr Dorners manifesto. Dorners didn’t make too much mension of Sheen other than saying, […]
John McAfee: tech millionaire, accused of murder, on the run from the cops, and quite possibly mentally ill. Wired’s Joshua Davis – who had written an in depth article on the man’s life – has reported on his personal experiences with the man that have left him believing he is “unhinged”.
A Boksburg Magistrate’s Court has ruled that there is absolutely no evidence linking suspended SAPS Crime Intelligence Boss, Richard Mdluli to the 1999 murder of his baby mama’s husband. And in a spicy twist of events, the court has suggested that the charges were likely the result of a conspiracy against Mdluli. Mdluli served as […]
“Jaco Steyn, I am Louise de Waal’s mother – you killed my child and you will pay for what you did.” These words were spoken by the mother of one of the “Sunday Rapist’s” victims shortly before he was found guilty yesterday on 33 charges – including kidnapping, rape, and murder.
It was reported today that Seychelles authorities have withdrawn a case of negligence against Stefan Pokorny, of Austria, last week. He had been arrested in Seychelles after a Cape Town yachtsman went missing.
For some reason, investigators decided against opening a car following a gruesome shooting attack on a family of British holidaymakers on a remote road in the French Alps yesterday.
On Friday, the body of a young man from Cape Town was found in Khayelitsha, he was killed after trying to sell his BMW to a man who responded to his ad on Gumtree.
Professor Igor Danilevskiy has admitted to stabbing to death to people in an apartment in Kazan, Russia Todau reports. The crazed man scrawled “Free Pussy Riot” on the wall in the victims blood which he said was meant to confuse the cops into thinking it was a ritual killing.
Yesterday, in a “bizarre and shocking” act, the National Prosecuting Authority slammed the 270 miners who were arrested at Marikana with charges of murdering 34 of their colleagues who were among them. Law expert, Pierre de Vos, has called the “shameful” decision a “flagrant abuse of the criminal justice system”.
The bodies of two women in the Russian Republic of Kazan, were found yesterday evening in an apparent statement on the imprisonment of punk band Pussy Riot. They were found in their apartment with multiple stab wounds, and the words “Free! Pussy Riot” [sic] painted on the wall in what police believe were the victims’ blood.
Earlier today, Thabo Bester, also known as the “Facebook rapist”, appeared in the Western Cape High Court and was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes.
The man known as the ‘Facebook Rapist’ described in detail yesterday at the Cape Town High Court how he killed young model Nomfundo Tyhulu last year. He is already serving 50 years for raping and robbing two other models.
While completing the final leg of a round-the-world trip, Sean Terry mysteriously disappeared while sailing between the Maldives and Madagascar. Foul play is suspected and the only other person who was on board at the time, an Austrian scuba diving instructor, has been arrested.
Yesterday afternoon at an office on Cape Town’s busy Long Street, Herman Pretorius shot and killed his former business partner Julian Williams. The two had been involved in some kind of dispute.
Headlines like this make me little bit sick, and leave me worrying about the state of tolerance and transformation in South Africa. Thapelo Makutle, a homosexual and transgender man living in Kuruman, was brutally attacked and beheaded in the Northern Cape. Words fail me.
And this, friends, is why you don’t date multiple women. Things can get a little, well, complicated. Thinking he could have it all, a Cape Town man has met his fate. The result comes after an overreaction from one of the ladies who walked in on him with the other. It got messy.
A Norwegian man is in hospital with serious injuries after setting himself on fire yesterday. The incident took place outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is standing trial for mass murder and terrorism. N5FW video of the incident inside.
The Dalai Lama made news this weekend when he told UK weekly, the Sunday Telegraph that he had been warned the Chinese government was training female assassins in the arts of poison in order to have him killed. China reckons they could have whacked him ages ago. The plot thickens, after the jump!
When Vusimuzi Silwanyan’s daughter was brutally murdered last week he left it to local police to deal with the matter. After they failed to make headway in the case he took matters into his own hands, and apprehended the killers in just five days.