by Angela Onyebuchi | Dec 14, 2023 | Murder
A New Jersey man was charged with killing his mother after he was found by police naked, covered in blood and lying on top of her headless body, according to court documents. Jeffrey Surgent called 911 Friday, Dec. 8, just before 4 p.m. and told the operator that he...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Dec 14, 2023 | Murder
A former police officer, Thandolwethu Faku, has been sentenced to an effective life imprisonment for the murder of his ex-girlfriend in South Africa. The ex-intelligence officer was sentenced by the High Court of South Africa, Western Cape Division on Wednesday,...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Dec 14, 2023 | Murder
A 45-year-old man, Yibanathi MacGyver Ndema, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Noluvuyo Nonkwelo, in South Africa. Ndema was jailed on Wednesday, December 13, 2023, in the Eastern Cape High Court in Mthatha. Noluvuyo’s remains...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Dec 14, 2023 | Violence Against Women
The search for a South African woman, who was reported missing in July 2019, ended in disappointment when her decapitated body was found buried under the bathtub of her marital home. Noluvuyo Ndema-Nonkwelo, 34, who worked as an HIV/Aids lay counsellor at Dutywa...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Dec 13, 2023 | Rape
A man from North Carolina, USA will spend 20 years in prison after he drugged and sexually assaulted a woman in his apartment for 10 days in February 2020, according to local prosecutors. A jury on November 13 found William Todd Murell, 58, guilty of first-degree rape...