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Garang Dau Deng sentenced to seven years jail for Alexander Maconochie Centre arson, property damage.

A Massachusetts business executive who was sentenced to 15 months in prison in the college admissions cheating scandal has appealed his conviction

Mary McCann was today sentenced to 49 months in prison for killing four-year-old daughter Lili and 10-year-old son Smaller in the M1 smash.

Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala was jailed for life without parole on Monday on charges of trying to overthrow the government by financing protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Western powers say is politically motivated.

A Turkish Court on Monday sentenced prominent Turkish civil rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison without parole, finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government in connection with the 2013 mass anti-government protests. The court in Istanbul also sentenced seven other defendants to 18 years…

Kavala, found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government, is a cause celebre for opponents of President Erdogan.

A Turkish court sentenced philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison on Monday finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the government by financing 2013 nationwide protests, in a case that Europe's top court and Ankara's Western allies said was politically motivated.

The judge lowered Presta’s sentence because of several letters of support written on Presta’s behalf as well as Presta’s ailing health.

At a hearing at the High Court in Edinburgh on Monday, Crown lawyers and Sutton’s defence team agreed that the crook pocketed £39,625 from the scam in ran from three prisons.