A minicab driver has been sent to a hospital secure unit for an unlimited period for murdering an Asian businessman in south London.
Ahmed Shah, 56, who ran an import-export business, was stabbed to death on the road where he lived in Southall in June, 2007.
He was found collapsed with chilli powder over his face.
Mohammed Habib, 40, from Southall, admitted the killing at the Old Bailey earlier and was sentenced on Friday.
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Toshawa Andrews, a competitive figure skater in Los Angeles, was in the middle of an on-ice routine when she started to feel an intense burning in her chest. She thought it was heartburn, so she continued on with her skating routine. But when her discomfort failed to subside, the then-30-year-old decided to go to the hospital to rule out anything serious.
Doctors found that Andrews’ blood had an elevated level of troponin, a hormone that can be Read the rest of this entry »
The mental fitness hearing of accused child killer Matthew Higa has been delayed for at least several weeks.
The hearing, before Circuit Judge Dexter Del Rosario, was canceled yesterday afternoon after prosecution and defense lawyers met with Del Rosario in his chambers.
Deputy Prosector Rom Trader said after emerging from the meeting that because three mental health experts who examined Higa would not agree on the defendant’s fitness to stand Read the rest of this entry »
Conditional release would allow Messenger to live in the community with requirements for treatment and supervision, like probation or parole, according to the Psychiatric Security Review Board website. The board oversees people who have been committed after being acquitted by reason of insanity.
After a hearing in June for Messenger’s conditional release and temporary leave was postponed to this month, board Chairman Robert Berger denied two written Read the rest of this entry »
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control on Friday explained how the manufacturer of the kiler teething mixture, My Pikin, purchased the poisonous chemical that contaminated the drug.
It also urged state governments to start disseminating information on the killer baby teething mixture. The agency, which stated these in a statement on Friday, also issued the report of investigation into the activities of the producer of Read the rest of this entry »
Last updated February 18, 2009 1:32 p.m. PT
MONROE, Wash. — A mentally ill convicted killer has been temporarily committed to Western State Hospital after serving 20 years in the Special Offender Unit of the state prison at Monroe.
The Department of Corrections says Michael McFarland, who is classified by the state as dangerously mentally ill, was referred Wednesday for civil commitment at the mental hospital for 72 hours.
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as the world’s leading cause of death by 2010, killing more people than the combined death toll of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, HealthDay reports. There could be 27 million new cancer cases annually by 2030, compared with an expected 12.4 million
, CNN.com reports. The projections come from the 2008 World Cancer Report, issued this week by the World Health Organization. The report names tobacco use as a major factor driving the increase. Less Read the rest of this entry »
Angie’s mother, a registered nurse, found her around 7:30 a.m. Saturday when she went to check on them because they hadn’t called or come over to her home a couple of doors down.
She found her daughter lying next to a side kitchen door, obviously deceased, but then found her granddaughter alive in another room. Focused on getting Candice out of the home, the family didn’t realize until later that Angie had been shot several times. A bullet that Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday.
Globally, an estimated 12.4 million people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year and 7.6 million people will die, the U.N. World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer Read the rest of this entry »
SAN BRUNO, Calif.—A judge has ruled that a 28-year-old man who fatally stabbed a stranger as he walked down the street should be hospitalized rather than incarcerated.
Earlier this year, Brandon Louis Gill of King City pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for stabbing to death Romero Lansang in March 2004.
Gill also pleaded insanity, leaving a San Mateo County judge to decide his fate. Gill could have been sentenced to 15 years to life Read the rest of this entry »