Pretty apparent it was a drug overdose based on what they found there. Someone started another GoFundMe for funeral expenses because they claim the money from the first gfm is in an account under Adams name, and it will take months to get access to...?
Well, this sucks.
Originally Posted by marshmallow
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...child-molester
Two men who took the law into their hands and exacted jungle justice on a man who sexually assaulted a girl in their rural community have been convicted of assault charges and could end up in prison.
By a 5-1 majority verdict, a jury found Roger Gillings, 45, and Evon Dent, 38, guilty of unlawful wounding for binding the convicted child molester with cord and beating him with a machete before slashing his scrotum.
Gillings and Dent were found not guilty of wounding with intent in the verdict, which was handed down in the St Elizabeth Circuit Court on Thursday. They are to be sentenced on July 12.
The 45-year-old victim of the 2013 attack in the small St Elizabeth community of Lititz was convicted three years later for buggery and sexual touching involving the female child. He is now serving a 13-year sentence.
His name is being withheld to protect the identity of the child.
Amid reports that residents in the community took issue with Gillings and Dent being prosecuted for their actions, Paula Llewellyn, the nation’s chief prosecutor, said her office has a duty to uphold the law.
“On a human level, one can understand the sympathy [for Gillings and Dent]. In the court of public opinion, jungle justice always seems appropriate, but we are obligated to carry out our duties within the law,” said Llewellyn, the director of public prosecutions.
JUSTICE TRIUMPHED
In the end, she said, the administration of justice triumphed.
“He [the child molester] faced the court for what he did and then he placed his trust in the justice system and got his day in court,” she told The Sunday Gleaner.
Prosecutors Maxine Jackson and Syleen O’Gilvie led evidence during the trial of Gillings and Dent that on September 10, 2013, they confronted the child molester on his farm.
The man, who was brought from prison to give evidence during the trial, testified that before the beating started, Gillings delivered an ominous warning.
“You know how long me a look fi you, raper bwoy,” he said Gillings shouted, before pulling a machete and using it to slap him over his back.
Soon after, he said Dent used a piece of wood to hit him as well.
The man said following a brief tussle, Gillings and Dent, along with two other men who accompanied them, subdued him and placed a piece of electrical wire around his neck. The electrical wire was also used to bind his hands and feet, he testified.
The convicted child molester said he was dragged through the streets, carried by his attackers, then transported in a motor vehicle until they got to a shop in an area known as ‘Common’.
Once he got there, the man said Gillings started beating him with a machete before pulling down his trousers. “You not going have any more p**** to f*** again,” the man said he was told, before Gillings took out a ratchet knife and “cut me seed”.
He said he was spared after another man pleaded with them to stop and suggested that they instead hand him over to the police.
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http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...-year-old-girl
The St Andrew West Rural Member of Parliament, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn, has condemned the mob attack and killing of 26-year-old Miguel Williams in the community of Sterling Castle.
The man, accused of being involved in the killing of eight-year-old Shantae Skyers, was beaten then burned this afternoon as angry residents sought justice for the murder of the Red Hills Primary School student.
"I'm in disbelief because you never want jungle justice because you don’t know if you’re getting the right person and at this time we don’t know and we can’t take the law into our own hands," Cuthbert-Flynn said.
Two men have been taken into custody in connection with the killing of the child.
But residents this afternoon insisted that Williams was responsible.
One of his relatives reported that Williams suffers from a mental condition.
After Williams was killed, the mobsters also set fire to his house.
The fire was extinguished by firefighters from the Half-Way Tree Police Station.
In the meantime, Cuthbert-Flynn says she will be contacting the National Security Minister Dr Horace Chang about maintaining police presence in the community as residents have threatened further action.
an Anti-Misogynistic group named "Hercules" is under investigation in Bangladesh for killing people they see as rapists and harassers.
https://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh...o-govt-vehicle
Law enforcement agencies haven?t been able to identify ?Hercules??a so-called vigilante who took it upon himself to punish alleged rapists by killing them. On a different note, upon medical test, doctors found no signs of rape on the victim?s body, according to their report submitted before the court.
Meanwhile, as our investigation revealed, before they were killed, two suspects in the rape case, Kabith Islam and Ishtiaq Ahmed, had been abducted from Savar and Sitakunda, respectively. According to the eyewitnesses, the captors of both the suspects identified themselves as being ?law enforcement officials.? However, no law enforcement agencies said they had detained or arrested any of the individuals.
Prothom Alo traced the car which was used to abduct Ishtiaq Ahmed from Sitakunda area. It is registered as a government car, belonging to the headquarters of a law enforcement agency. Signs were also found that sophisticated surveillance technologies had been deployed to locate the actual whereabouts of the targets before they were killed.
Ishtiaq was abducted while he was on a bus, en route to Chattogram from Dhaka, on 22 January. Two days later, his body was recovered 240 kilometres away, at Beltala village, Jhalakathi. A typed note was found to be attached around his neck, which read: ?I am the rapist of [the victim?s name]. This is my punishment.?
Kabith Islam, on the other hand, was picked up from Nabinagar, Savar, on 24 January.
A week later, his dead body was recovered from 260 kilometres north of Nabinagar, at Angaria village, too, in Jhalakathi. His body had also a note affixed, in which the vigilante executioner was named ?Hercules.? The mysterious case of ?Hercules??a Greek hero?led human rights groups to question the way the rape victims were executed.
?Where has this Hercules come from? How? I believe it is the responsibility of the state and the police to find out who they are.? said Kazi Reazul Huq, the Chairman of National Human Rights Commission, at a meeting in Dhaka on 6 February.
and that details would be disclosed once the investigation ended. Kazi Reazul Huq is currently abroad and couldn?t be contacted. Nazrul Islam, the commission?s acting chairman, commented on Prothom Alo?s finding, ?This is a serious allegation. The state will have to investigate the matter with renewed vigour. It needs to be revealed who in the law enforcement agencies did this.?
No signs of rape found
Both Ishtiaq and Kabith, the killed rape suspects, lived in Bhandaria, Pirojpur. They were friends. On 17 January, a case was filed with the local police in Bhandaria, accusing them of raping a madrasa student. Filed by the victim?s father, the case charged that Ishtiaq and Kabith abducted her from streets and raped her. A week after the case was filed, Ishtiaq?s dead body was recovered, and another week later, Kabith?s.
However, the medical test report into the case submitted on January 18 before the court noted, ?No evidence of a recent forceful sexual contact has been found.? The father of the victim, however, refuted the conclusion by the medical team, saying that the case was filed days after the rape incident. Therefore, he said, evidence of rape could not be found.
Two female doctors at Pirojpur Sadar Hospital conducted the test. One of them, Jannatul Maowa, told Prothom Alo, ?If an individual was raped, there should be signs of internal or external injuries [in her/his body]. We look for that. We submitted to the court what we found upon examining the body.?
Ishtiaq was dragged away from a bus
A day after the case was filed, on January 18, Ishtiaq moved to Dhaka from Bhandaria?in a mess in Badda. On 20 January, he visited his in law?s residence in Tolarbagh, Mirpur, Dhaka and stayed there for two days before departing for Chattogram, according to his wife, Shamsunnahar. While on the bus, Ishtiaq had several conversations with her wife. After seven in the evening, Shamsunnahar could never contact him.
While he was living at the mess in Badda, Ishtiaq was often visited by Nur Islam, who was living in another mess near Ishtiaq?s. Nur Islam told Prothom Alo that a local rickshaw van driver, Sabuj, took Ishtiaq to the bus station. When contacted, Sabuj said that Ishtiaq boarded a bus belonging to Ena Paribahan at 4 PM from Nadda, Dhaka. He talked to Ishtiaq twice while he was on the bus. The last time Sabuj talked to Ishtiaq, he said the bus was crossing Cumilla. His phone was found unavailable when Sabuj again tried to reach him the night.
When approached, the staff at the Ena bus stoppage at Nadda said the bus that departs for Chattogram originally comes from the Mahakhali main stoppage half an hour beforehand. Staff at the Mahakhali main stoppage of Ena Paribahan showed the registration number of the bus, which left the stoppage at 3.30 PM on January 22 to Chattogram, and the identity of the bus driver and supervisor. Their identity would not be disclosed for the sake of their security.
When contacted, the supervisor of the bus told Prothom Alo that the bus faced a security checking that night when it was at Darogahat, Sitakunda. Three individuals, accompanying them was a white car, were carrying out the search, he said. ?Our bus was let go soon. However, when the bus arrived at Barabkunda area, we again saw the white car, speedily trying to chase us and giving the signal to stop. When we obeyed the signal and stopped, the three individuals emerged out of the car and identified themselves as being law enforcement officials.?
?The plainclothes individuals were matching all passengers with a photo in their smartphone. At one stage, they captured one passenger.? When the supervisor was showed the photo of Ishtiaque, he confirmed that it was indeed Ishtiaq who was abducted from the bus that night.
The bus driver confirmed the supervisor?s account and provided further details. He said when the white car was leaving the scene with the passenger, he photographed the registration plate of the car with his mobile phone. The photograph showed a Pajero car, assembled by the state-run company Progoti, a kind of vehicle normally issued to government officers.
After searching against the car?s registration number with Bangladesh Road Transport Authority?s database, it was found that the owner of the car was a ?Gov?t Department,? while the address mentioned was of the headquarter of a law enforcement agency.
To further ascertain the account of the supervisor and driver, some passengers of the bus, who had been named in the passenger?s list of that day, were contacted. One passenger, who identified himself as a student of a college in Feni, confirmed, saying that he also witnessed the bus being stopped and a passenger (Ishtiaq) being taken away in a white car.
Two microbuses for Kabith
After the rape case was filed against him, Kabith Islam moved from Bhandaria to his house at Mohammadpur, Dhaka. The next day he again moved to a friend?s place at Nabinagar, Savar. His father, Abul Kalam Mollah, acknowledged that he advised his son to stay outside the house for some time. After Kabith began to live in his friend?s place, he talked to his father every day. They last talked at 9.50 PM on January 24. The next day at evening his friend called Abul Kalam Mollah to inform him that Kabith had been picked up by plainclothes men who had come in two Hiace microbuses.
When contacted, the friend of Kabith?s declined to talk to Prothom Alo. However, Kabith?s father talked to him and allowed this reporter to hear the conversation by turning the phone?s speaker on. He said to Abul Kalam Mollah that Kabith and he was having a cup of tea in a tea stall near Niribiri Road Tower at Nabinagar. Suddenly, two microbuses appeared out of blue, he said, and four individuals from the first microbus apprehended them and took them behind. The men then showed them to someone inside the microbus and asked him/her, ?Which one?? The individual inside the microbus, in response, pointed to Kabith. The microbus then took Kabith and let his friend go.
Abdul Kalam Mollah obtained Kabith?s phone log. The log shows that at 10. 14 PM on January 24, just hours before Kabith would be abducted, four SMSs had been sent to his phone from three different phone numbers in less than half an hour. The phone numbers, when tried, were found unavailable.
Similarly, Ishtiaq?s phone call log revealed that the time his bus was crossing Cumilla [as reckoned by the rickshaw van driver Sabuj], a series of SMSs were being sent from a particular phone number.
An official aware of criminal investigation methods said that such SMSs, which do not contain any content in their body, are sent to the target?s mobile phone to identify his precise location. While the recipient doesn?t see the SMSs, he said, the trace of the SMSs remains in the phone log.
When asked whether anyone other than a law enforcement agency has such a capability to precisely locate a target, Ruhul Amin, DIG (Media) at Police Headquarters, told Prothom Alo that it is done by a government-assigned agency, from which all other intelligence and law enforcing agencies take help to do it. He also said no one except for the security force can do it.
Sultana Kamal, an eminent human rights activist, told Prothom Alo, ?It is a matter of grave concern if it turns out to be true that the two rape suspects had been abducted by the law enforcement agencies before getting killed. If the matter isn?t investigated now, questions will arise whether it was a premeditated act. If those entrusted with the task of ensuring law and order violate the law, where will we go??
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Drugs may have caused death of Richard Adams, man who stopped teen from sexually assaulting boy
Posted: 11:02 AM, Apr 24, 2019 Updated: 8:32 AM, Apr 24, 2019
By: Drew Scofield
Richard Adams
EASTLAKE, Ohio — Police found evidence of drug use, including a rolled-up $20 bill, white powder and a pill, at the scene where 20-year-old Richard Adams was found dead Monday night, according to a police report released Wednesday. Adams made national headlines when he was arrested for attacking a teen he allegedly caught molesting a 5-year-old boy last month.
RELATED: Painesville man who attacked teen he caught molesting child has died, according to Lake County Coroner
On Monday, Adams’ girlfriend told police that he complained of feeling ill and then went to the basement to sleep, according to an Eastlake police report. Adams’ girlfriend checked on him about an hour later and heard him snoring. When she checked on him a second time, his lips had turned blue and he wasn’t breathing.
The police report states that when officers went into the basement, they found a rolled up $20 bill with white residue in it and a white powdery substance. They also found an off-white pill that had been broken in half.
Adams was transported to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead.
Last month, Adams made national headlines when he was arrested on felony charges for attacking a 17-year-old he allegedly caught in a sexual act with a child.
The 17-year-old was also arrested. The teen has been charged with multiple counts of rape and gross sexual imposition.
A GoFundMe set up for Adams’ legal bills raised tens of thousands of dollars.
Adams later took a plea deal and the felony charge was changed to a misdemeanor and he was placed in a first-offender diversion program.
Eastlake Police Chief Larry Reik said it did not appear there was any foul play involved in Adams's death.
Never meet your heroes...
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/cr...229805074.html
The executive director of Sacramento County?s main dispatch center for fire and EMS 911 calls has been placed on administrative leave, and employees and his supervisor reported that his alleged ?mental instability? and mentions of owning firearms made them fear for their safety.
Two deputy directors at the Sacramento Regional Fire and EMS Communications Center and a deputy fire chief overseeing the facility near Mather Field were granted restraining orders against Joseph Thuesen on April 15, three days after Thuesen and one other employee were placed on paid administrative leave.
The dispatch center had not appointed an interim executive director as of Tuesday morning, Sacramento Fire Department Deputy Chief and Center Chairman Chris Costamagna said in an emailed statement to The Sacramento Bee, meaning it has operated since April 12 with its top management position vacant.
Thuesen was placed on paid administrative leave from the top job at the dispatch center four days after he allegedly had an ?emotionally charged? conversation with employees that prompted concern, according to filings in Sacramento Superior Court.
During that conversation, Thuesen allegedly broke into tears while speaking about a personal matter, told his employees he owned an ?arsenal? of guns and made reference to ?vigilante justice,? according to the petition for the restraining order filed on behalf of Costamagna, who is Thuesen?s supervisor.
A workplace violence prevention temporary restraining order was granted to the dispatch center, providing protection to Costamagna and the center?s two deputy directors, Diane House and Kylee Soares.
House and Soares provided declarations in the filing, detailing their alleged interactions with Thuesen over a span of a few days in April.
House and Soares met with Costamagna outside of the workplace April 8 to discuss concerns that Thuesen had been misusing center funds, House wrote in her declaration.
House talked to Thuesen that same day, she wrote.
?During our conversation (Thuesen) appeared to be emotionally charged ? he was crying and very upset. (He) shared that one of his friend?s sons was a victim of a suspicious death. He also made comments to the effect of:
▪ ?I have an arsenal at my house?
▪ ?There is such a thing as vigilante justice?
▪ ?It will be on like donkey kong?
▪ ?If I could pack a gun I would.? ?
The workplace restraining order was filed ?(o)ut of an abundance of caution for employee safety,? according to the statement provided by Costamagna. The statement says the center?s board of directors recently became aware of ?accounting irregularities.?
?As stewards of public funds, we take all fiscal matters seriously and have taken action to conduct an independent review of financial transactions,? Costamagna?s statement continued. ?We also placed two employees on temporary paid administrative leave, pending the results of the investigation.?
Costamagna in a later email said the dispatch center has observed no disruption in service due to the two employees being placed on leave, and that the board is not disclosing the name or position of the second employee.
Among other administrative and managerial duties, the executive director for the center is responsible for developing and proposing ?preliminary and final budgets for consideration by the Governing Board,? according to a job description for the role provided to The Sacramento Bee by Costamagna.
The duties normally assigned to the executive director have been handled by Soares, House and board members for the Center, Costamagna said in his emailed statement.
Thuesen could not be reached for comment.
FEARING A ?MURDER-SUICIDE?
In her declaration, Soares wrote that on April 9 she was directed by Costamagna to ensure Thuesen attended a counseling session, which made Thuesen ?unhappy? and ?visibly annoyed? with her. Soares wrote that she has worked with Thuesen for 19 years.
House wrote that on the same day, she was ordered by Costamagna to call Sutter Health?s employee assistance program ?to schedule an emergency critical incident debriefing with a clinician? for Thuesen, and that Soares followed Thuesen to the debriefing to make sure he went.
Two days later, on April 11, Soares wrote Thuesen ?expressed that he is frustrated with Deputy Director House and me.?
?One finance member has expressed to me that she fears (Thuesen) will commit a ?murder-suicide,?? Soares? declaration says. ?At a separate time, she also asked about establishing safety precautions for center personnel.?
Thuesen was placed on paid administrative leave April 12, and Costamagna alleges that Thuesen?s ?demeanor changed from sad to more angry? as he verbally protested while gathering his belongings and leaving the property, court documents say.
Thuesen allegedly told Costamagna: ?(I)t doesn?t need to be like this, Chris.?
House, Soares and Costamagna each concluded their declarations saying they were fearful or concerned for their own safety and the safety of their coworkers. Costamagna additionally wrote in his own statement that he had previously seen Thuesen ?fixate on an issue and want to make people pay for what they have done.?
House and Soares could not be reached for comment.
The temporary restraining order alleges that Thuesen ?owns firearms and he has made it known to center staff members that he has firearms.? The restraining order requires that the respondent provide proof of turning in, selling or storing all firearms.
However, in a form filed to the court dated April 22, Thuesen simply wrote ?I do not own, possess, or control any firearms,? three separate times.
?I?M LAUGHING. HE HARDLY CUSSES.?
Tina Dungan, a 21-year veteran of the dispatch center who said she retired three years ago, told The Bee she worked with Thuesen for 15 years.
Dungan vehemently defended Thuesen, referring to the ordeal as ?just crazy,? calling him one of the nicest people she?d ever worked with and saying she had never known him to own guns or talk about them at work. She said it would not be in his nature to joke about guns.
?He doesn?t even own a weapon, that?s the crazy thing,? Dungan said. ?The thought of him doing workplace violence? I?m laughing. He hardly cusses.?
Dungan did say, though, that she has had infrequent contact with Thuesen in the three years since she retired. She has since moved to Oregon. She has been in touch with Thuesen since he was placed on leave, and said he feels ?physically sick? knowing his career is likely ruined.
Dungan said Thuesen was instructed not to discuss the incident.
?Joe can?t talk to anyone right now,? she said.
Dungan told The Bee that the second person placed on administrative leave was Thuesen?s executive assistant, and that it would be standard practice for an assistant to be put on leave if their boss was placed on leave.
Dungan referred to her former workplace as a ?hellhole? with some people, including Thuesen, ?trying to make it a better environment.?
?He wants to make dispatch better. That?s why he took that job,? she added, saying he worked his way up from a dispatcher to leading operations.
Thuesen, 46 and a Cameron Park resident, was appointed to the executive director position ? initially on an interim basis ? in December 2017, board meeting records show. It?s unclear what Thuesen?s base salary was, but the position paid the previous director $178,592 in 2016.
WHO GOVERNS THE CENTER?
The dispatch center is managed under joint authority of Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Department, Folsom Fire Department, Sacramento Fire Department and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District. The four-member board of governors is composed of a chief or deputy chief from each of those agencies.
The center handles fire and medical calls from those four jurisdictions plus six others: the Courtland, Herald, Isleton, Walnut Grove and Wilton fire departments, and the River Delta Fire Protection District.
According to its website, the center handles more than 350,000 emergency calls annually, and dispatches emergency responders to more than 169,000 incidents every year.
The board of governors for the center held a special meeting April 17 to initiate an internal investigation into Thuesen, court documents say. According to Costamagna?s statement, this investigation is centered on the alleged accounting irregularities rather than the alleged incidents that prompted the workplace violence restraining order.
A second special meeting was held Friday, in lieu of the board?s regular semimonthly meeting, in which the appointment of an interim executive director was discussed during a closed session.
The temporary restraining order bars Thuesen from going within 500 yards of the three individuals, their family members, their workplace, their children?s schools, or the center?s offsite training center located in Rancho Cordova. It also prevents Thuesen from contacting any center employee, directly or indirectly.
A hearing has also been scheduled regarding a permanent restraining order against Thuesen, set for May 10, when the temporary order expires.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/s...lante-14973673
A MAN snared by a paedophile vigilante group claimed he was a lawyer when he was confronted in Glasgow City Centre.
Craig Bradley, 46, was caught on video as he arrived for a meeting with a 14-year-old girl.
He admitted at Glasgow Sheriff Court to sending sexual communication and arranging to meet a girl.
Bradley, of the city's Royston, was confronted by the vigilante group Wolfpack Hunters at Buchanan Bus Station last March.
The capture - live streamed on Facebook - showed Bradley carrying swimming trunks in a Sainsbury’s bag.
When asked why he was there, Bradley responded “Phone my mates, I’m not a paedo.”
Read more: Death riddle as woman's body is found behind Govanhill flats
Using the name ‘Craig35’ Bradley was using the social messaging platform Scout to communicate with a 14-year-old decoy called Kenzie.
Prosecutor Mark Allan said: “The decoy said ‘I’m Kenzie, 14 from Clydebank and I’m not feeling well.’
“Mr Bradley responded ‘That’s a shame, you look so cute.”
Bradley arranged to take the decoy to a hotel in Glasgow City Centre.
His capture video also revealed that he promised the decoy vodka and coke and that it was their ‘wee secret’.
He set up a meeting at Buchanan Bus Station on March 4 where he was confronted by the vigilante group.
Bradley told them: “The last time she told me she was 14 and I was going to meet her and send her home so that she was safe.”
Read more: Street sealed off after woman is raped
In the video, Bradley claimed he was a solicitor before changing his mind and said he worked in an office doing admin.
Sheriff Alayne Swanson deferred sentence until next month for background reports.
Bradley was bailed in the meantime.
https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2019...cial-problems/
Here is another one on the Dispatch director
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — Court documents describe wild claims into the inner workings of a Sacramento County 911 dispatch center.
The documents are part of a restraining order request against the executive director of the Sacramento Regional Fire and EMS Communications Center. Executive director Joseph Thuesen is now banned from entering.
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An internal investigation is underway into whether Thuesen and another employee misused dispatch center funds. Besides the financial problems, there is fear.
A judge has issued a temporary restraining order to keep Thuesen away from colleagues after claims by three employees they don’t feel safe around him.
READ THE COURT DOCUMENTS FILED AGAINST THUESEN
Court documents show claims by dispatch center employees that Thuesen recently became emotional over the suspicious death of a family friend, and that
he is capable of committing a murder-suicide.
Documents show an employee recalling Thuesen saying: “I have an Arsenal at home;” “It will be on like Donkey Kong;” “There is such a thing as vigilante justice;” and “If I could pack a gun, I would.”
Thuesen lives in Cameron Park. His family has the American Flag and the Marine Corp flag on display over their garage. When CBS13’s Steve Large range Thuesen’s doorbell, no one answered.
Later, a young man identifying himself as Joseph Thuesen’s son walked down the driveway, for a brief exchange, saying he could not answer any questions.
According to the Mountain Democrat newspaper, Thuesen once ran for public office with the Cameron Park Community Services District. During his campaign nearly a decade ago, the newspaper reported he has a law degree and served as a marine.
Now, he’s on leave as executive director of the Sacramento Regional Communication Center, a place built to keep people safe. Court documents describe a workplace with financial trouble and employees in fear.
https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/176...year-old-girl/
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Arrest after vigilante group confront 'knifeman who tried to meet 11-year-old girl'
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A MAN has been arrested after a vigilante group carried out a “sting” in Southend.
The group, known as Secret Whispers UK, claim they had been in communication with the man - while posing as an 11-year-old girl - who is understood to have come armed with a knife to the meeting.
In a video, widely shared on Facebook, the group arranged to meet the man who they say had been told on 14 occasions the girl he thought he was meeting was 11-years-old.
During the heated exchange, which took place near Ambleside Drive, Southend, the group accused the man of sending indecent images to the decoy profile.
https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/n...-hands-2825184
A vigilante group accused of blackmail
http://saharareporters.com/2019/04/3...dnapping-child
Two middle-aged men met their waterloo on Tuesday over alleged stealing of a child at Edepie community, a suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The incident occurred at a private school where the child was being taken away from before nemesis caught up with them at the school junction.
While one was not lucky and got killed by an irate mob, the other two were thoroughly beaten and were only rescued from the angry crowd by the Police.
One of them allegedly confessed that they were sent by a politician, a confession that further infuriated the mob.
Meanwhile, efforts to speak with state police command on the current wave of jungle justice and insecurity was not possible, as the Public Relations officer did not answer his calls.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-48145336#
A self-styled paedophile hunter has said his channel has been permanently banned by YouTube.
Stephen Dure, who is also known as Stevie Trap, previously posted videos of himself confronting alleged sexual offenders in Hampshire.
He said he has been prohibited from ever owning or using a YouTube account.
The website said the channel had been terminated because of "multiple or severe violations" of policies against bullying and harassment.
'Disgusting treatment'
Previously, YouTube said it made a "mistake" when it deleted the account in April.
Mr Dure, from Southampton, said the channel had been deleted and reinstated three times in the past.
He said: "I don't know what YouTube's problem is but I'm actually disgusted by the way they're treating me."
The campaigner said he was moving forward with plans to create his own website.
In a statement, YouTube said: "We terminate the accounts of repeat offenders."
In September, Mr Dure was jailed for 15 weeks for falsely accusing a man of grooming teenagers.
His wrongly-accused victim said he had been sacked and his home had been attacked as a result.
Mr Dure appeared in a BBC Inside Out programme in 2017, when he explained how he posed as children on the internet to "trap" sex offenders.
His YouTube and Facebook pages have shown videos of him making citizen's arrests after arranging meetings with suspects.
The TRAP Community Facebook page has more than 240,000 followers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...gilante-attack
Two men who pummelled the face and head of a man as he lay in bed have been jailed.
Tairone Seth Reihana, 20, and Awa Tyrone Shannon Tukiri, 27, were imprisoned for three years and three years and five months respectively by Judge Denise Clark when they appeared in the Hamilton District Court on Monday.
Each had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge of wounding with intent to injure, in relation to events in a house in St Andrews, Hamilton that was visited by the two men in the early hours of December 13, 2017.
In that house lived the victim, his partner and other family members. Whether Reihana and Tukiri were invited into that house willingly by members of the victim's family remains unknown. What is certain is that they were not welcome in the bedroom where the victim was asleep, and where they barged in and immediately meted out a beating.
The ensuing assault left the victim with a fractured jaw, a fractured cheek, a ruptured eyeball, the loss of two teeth and swelling to his face and airways.
The victim was taken to Waikato Hospital in a critical condition and placed in an induced coma in the intensive care unit for about four days.
The day after he emerged from that coma he was placed in a general ward - and then discharged himself from hospital soon after.
As well as not adhering to the advice of the doctors and nurses, the victim refused to co-operate with the police investigation and had declined to identify his attackers.
Regardless, the detectives had managed to piece together a case against the two defendants. Tukiri was identified by a bloody palm and finger print, left on the bedroom wall.
Reihana was identified by two witnesses who had been at another nearby house he had gone to earlier that night, armed with a bat and a hockey stick and in the company of two other men - and whose identity remains unknown.
Reihana had told the occupants of that home that his soon-to-be victim had made his infant niece sick, and he was going to kill that man and his entire family.
He and the others entered the house where he had searched for his prey. At one point he saw a person lying on a couch and, believing it was his target, went to beat the person with the hockey stick.
He stopped when it was revealed the person on the couch was not the man he sought, but was a young girl.
In court, Crown prosecutor Jacinda Foster sought a start point for the pair's sentencing of six years in jail, "for what can only be described as brutal violence ... vigilatism of some kind".
The extent of the victim's injuries suggested some kind of weapon had been used, but what it was had not been able to be determined.
"It's difficult to envisage more serious offending charged as wounding with intent to injure."
Reihana's counsel Glenn Dixon and Tukiri's counsel Gerard Walsh sought lower starting points.
Dixon said the behaviour of his client that night was "an aberration" and well out of character for him. He was 17 years old at the time and had recently become a parent and was distraught at the thought of having to spend time away from his child.
Walsh said Tukiri - who had prior convictions for violence - was also deeply remorseful and was committed to changing his ways.
Tukiri was on his "second strike" under the three strikes law for violent offenders, meaning he has to serve the full term of his imprisonment with no chance of early parole.
Stuff
https://www.herald.ie/news/man-flees...-38093899.html
A Vigilante accused of bombing
An attacker firebombed a home occupied by the innocent brother of a man targeted in a sting by a so-called 'paedo hunter' organisation.
Major damage was caused to the front of the property in the estate in Drogheda when it was attacked at around 1am yesterday, with windows being smashed in.
An innocent man aged in his 40s was in the house at the time but he escaped uninjured.
The property is also understood to be occupied by the innocent mother of the Co Louth man, who was targeted earlier this week by a vigilante group in a child-grooming sting.
Gardai do not believe the vigilante group was behind the firebomb attack and yesterday they condemned it in an online post.
No arrests have yet been made in the case, which gardai believe is directly linked to an online video of the vigilante group's sting on the brother of the man on Monday.
"What happened in Drogheda shows the dangers of the activities of these vigilante groups - a completely innocent man could have suffered serious injury or worse when the property was attacked," a senior source told the Herald.
Vigilante
Previously, gardai have expressed "major concern" at the activities of vigilante groups who describe themselves as paedophile hunters and pose online as children to track down sexual predators.
Earlier this year, in a Virgin Media documentary, Detective Superintendent Declan Daly said gardai welcomed the public's assistance in preventing and detecting crime but added that this "should be limited to reporting concerns" to gardai.
"When members of the public take on the role of law enforcement, that is not a positive development," he said.
"We take child protection very seriously, and the activities of these groups are a major concern for us.
"It would appear to me that the focus of these groups is on publicity rather than justice- focused and it is activity that I can neither welcome nor encourage."
The vigilante group which targeted the Drogheda man on Monday evening claimed it confronted him at his home address for grooming a young girl online.
"The team had documented evidence that showed the suspect had been engaging in sexual communication with what he believed was a 13-year-old female child (decoy)," it said in a statement.
Indecent
"During the communication with the child, the suspect had sent the child indecent videos of himself and asked her if she liked them."
The man targeted in the sting was later questioned at Drogheda Garda Station before being released without charge.
Gardai said last night that it was "not clear" if the man would face any charges but a senior source said officers did not condone the activities of vigilante groups.
"The actions by such groups are a cause of concern for An Garda Siochana and for other police services," a garda spokesperson had said previously.
"The activity engaged in and the manner of confrontation between such groups and their targets has the potential for violence and could result in harm to persons present.
"In addition, there are also concerns over the legality of the actions of such groups operating in Ireland.
"Finally, the manner in which such groups operate and how they interact with their chosen targets prior to and during the arranged meeting has the potential to affect future criminal proceedings."
The activities of 'paedo hunter groups' came to prominence in November 2017, when Kieran Creaven (55), a former RTE TV sports producer, was arrested in Leeds after a sting.
He was jailed for 18 months in March last year after being caught grooming a decoy who he thought was a 13-year-old girl by paedophile hunting group 'Predator Exposure' in Yorkshire.
Creaven has since been released and is believed to be living in hiding in Dublin.
https://qwenu.com/2019/05/08/why-mob...ed-in-nigeria/
The Nigerian society has finally descended to a lawless hell, no thanks to the years of tolerating impunity, desecrating the rule of law and perverting justice. There is hardly any sane order in the country, people just do as they deem fit. From the repugnant story of policemen raping women in Abuja to the mindless killings of people in Zamfara State, the culture of chaos continues to spread untamed.
No wonder that some persons have constantly used harsh adjectives like “miserable place” “Zoo” or “Evil forest” to describe Nigeria not just because of the economic hardship, but also the all-round wickedness and perversion going on the country.
As if the increasing cases of lawlessness in Nigeria is not enough, recently, a mob set a man ablaze for allegedly stealing from a church in Lagos State. Apart from the fact that the constitution does not permit people to take law into their own hands except in the case of self-defense, this cruel act –mob justice or jungle justice as the case may be, is not morally correct. No man or group of people have the right to lynch another person when already there is a force to interpret and implement the law in Nigeria.
I agree that there is a delay and at times denial of justice in the faultily corrupt Nigerian judicial system, nonetheless, there are laid down procedure on how a suspect should be treated. For your information, the law has mandated the court only to pass judgment and anything contrary to this is ultra vires. Hence, we must learn to act within the jurisdiction of law or risk throwing the society into the state anarchy.
There are times that some of the supposedly criminals are innocent, but because mob justice is rash, impatient, does not give room to investigation and does not give allowance to suspects until proven guilty, they are burnt to death. Ironically, many of the people perpetrating this wickedness are the same people who hail and defend politicians whenever they steal billions of naira. A crime is a crime! If we keep throwing support for the high chiefs sorry thieves and roasting petty hungry criminals like chicken then something is collectively wrong with us.
It is worthy to note that, I am not in support of any form of crime but what I am saying is that, the same aversive countenance we show to petty thieves should also be shown to grand thieves who mask themselves as leaders in high places. And even if there is any need to take punitive measure, it must be done according to the law and not according to our impulses.
For instance, the punishment for someone who stole a cup of garri in the market place could just be 4-8 years imprisonment according to the law, which is fair enough for a crime of that nature. However, it becomes pure evil to hack such a person to death instantly given the consequence is not proportionate to his or her action.
Between there is a possibility that the culprit may turn a new leaf while in prison and become a better person in society upon his or her release. Unfortunately, the cruel lens of mob justice does not see beyond punishment, when punition in itself is correctional and obliterative in a relative sense.
Hence, measures must be put in place to end it. I strongly believe that once it is criminalized, the bloodthirsty demons parading themselves as humans on the streets will take caution and act according to the provision of the law. It is only when we act in righteousness and obey the laws of the land that Nigeria can be great.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8908111.html
Paedophile vigilante groups slow down official investigations and are destroying people’s lives for the sake of Facebook likes, the police chief leading the country’s response to child sexual abuse has warned.
Simon Bailey, head of child protection at the National Police Chiefs’ Council, said the work of paedophile hunters had led to people being attacked or even taking their own lives.
“So many of these groups’ drivers are about seeking infamy through the number of hits they get, the number of likes they get, the number of people that view their live streams,” he told the Press Association.
“I can’t deny they’ve led to convictions, but they’ve also led to people being blackmailed, people being subject of GBH (grievous bodily harm), the wrong people being accused, people committing suicide as a result of interventions, family lives being completely destroyed, in the name of what? Facebook likes.”
Mr Bailey, the chief constable at Norfolk Police, said a colleague had described to him how one referral from a group can take a working day to investigate, time that could have been spent identifying half a dozen offenders.
His comments mark a reversal in police attitudes to the vigilante networks, which have made headlines in recent years for filming their unofficial “stings”.
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In 2017, Mr Bailey said forces would “potentially have to look at” working with networks of paedophile hunters in the future.
One of the most high profile groups, Dark Justice, has claimed to have aided the arrest of more than 100 potential sex offenders.
Another group, the Hunted One, came under scrutiny after members confronted a man who allegedly travelled to Bluewater Shopping Centre in the belief he was meeting a 14-year-old girl for sex.
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During the filming, another group of men burst in and assaulted the man as he was being questioned by vigilantes, causing security guards and police to intervene.
David Baker, who was confronted by the group Southampton Trap after allegedly arranging to meet a 14-year-old child in a supermarket car park, took his own life a few days later.
The 43-year-old gardener from Hampshire was arrested by police, questioned and released under investigation in October 2017.
The coroner at his inquest ruled that social media posts by the vigilante group were a “causative factor” in his suicide.
https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/s...-rising-crime/
At least six people have been murdered in a Mpumalanga village in three weeks after mobs accused them of various crimes in the area.
The community of Masoyi, near Hazyview, told Sowetan they had taken the law into their own hands because police were not dealing with crime in the area.
The latest killing occurred on Tuesday following the alleged disappearance of an 18-year-old girl.
Surprise Mlimi, 43, was brutally assaulted and his house burnt after Isabella Gumbi, from Mozambique, disappeared. They alleged that the man, also from Mozambique, was the last person to be seen with her.
According to police, Mlimi told them he had been with Gumbi on May 4 but said he accompanied her to the Nelspruit taxi rank where she boarded a taxi to Johannesburg.
Police have since acquired information to corroborate Mlimi's version. But it was too late for him as he died on arrival at Themba Hospital in Kabokweni, after a severe beating by the community.
"We received information that a man was being assaulted by the community accusing him of being responsible for the disappearance of the 18-year-old girl," Mpumalanga police spokesperson Brig Leonard Hlathi said.
"On our arrival, we rescued the man and before he died, he told us that he accompanied the girl to the taxi rank where she took a taxi to Johannesburg. Our preliminary investigation are that indeed the girl took a taxi to Johannesburg."
He said passenger register at the rank also listed Gumbi for the ride to Johannesburg.
Last week, two men accused of robbing bakery delivery vans were burnt alive in Masoyi.
Two weeks ago, a local pastor an his nephew were killed after they were accused of raping and killing two little girls.
Siblings Slindile and Ntokozo Mdluli went missing and their tiny bodies were found dumped in a field.
The men were tied, beaten and set alight in a house.
In another attack recently, a man accused of raping a woman was beaten to death.
"This is out of order, we always tell the public to work with us and not to take the law into their own hands.
"We are investigating and content that arrests are eminent," Hlathi said.
Community members who spoke to Sowetan are divided on mob justice.
Themba Shongwe told Sowetan that he's very scared because if someone "hates you in Masoyi you are bound to be killed by the community".
"Remember some of the people who have been killed were pointed out by a sangoma and we don't know if what the sangoma said it true or not," Shongwe said.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/911271...-with-crowbar/
SICKENING video shows a vigilante gang batter an alleged burglar after catching him in a neighbour’s garden with a crowbar.
The gang of hooded men repeatedly punch and kick their victim as they accuse him of “thieving” in Bradford.
He tries to protest his innocence pleading with them that he was “terrified” and has a “kid” but one of the mob replies: "I don't give a f***."
Footage of the vicious assault emerged on social media yesterday.
It shows the alleged burglar bleeding from his mouth as a masked man pins him to the ground, surrounded by several other men.
VICIOUS ATTACK
Slapping him, the man says: "Listen, what were you doing in our area looking through f****** gardens?"
The beaten man claims he used to live in the area and only ran away because he knew he "looked dodgy" carrying a crowbar.
The masked man screams "f****** dodgy?" and throws a punch before another man kicks him in the head.
As they pull him to his feet he complains he cannot find his glasses but he is bluntly told: "F*** your glasses."
He is repeatedly punched in the face but someone intervenes, saying they should question him first "then we bang him".
Someone asks why he wanted to "do Mikey's windows" and he replies: "I just wanted to have a chat with him."
CROWBAR CLAIMS
He claims he was carrying the crowbar for protection because he feared he might be attacked and one of the men says "well now you're gonna get your head kicked in" - before punching him twice in the face.
The masked man then squares up to him and asks: "Were you out robbing?" To which he replies: "I'm not robbing, bruv."
When asked why he was seen "jumping around in gardens" he responds: "Because I'm f****** terrified of you boys."
He is then knocked to the ground with a single punch and dragged away as he begs: "Get off me. Please, no."
SOCIAL MEDIA FURY
The camera is pointed at the ground as he is hit with more blows. At one point he screams "I've got a kid" but is told: "I don't give a f***. Stay down."
Viewers on social media criticised the men for taking the law into their own hands.
Sky Shazad wrote: "Caught him, good job. But hitting him afterwards is bang out of order."
Suzanne Kelly said: "Bunch of bullies. Restrain him but not beat him."
Afi Aslam commented: "It's becoming a regular thing now, guys catch someone and all of a sudden the Superman cape comes out.
"Yes, you can use citizen's arrest with reasonable minimum force, not commit a crime and post it on social media."
But Habs Hussain argued: "If he was robbing houses he deserves it. What would you have done if it was your house he turned up at?"
West Yorkshire Police has been approached for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.452eb204a713
https://ktla.com/2019/05/22/vigilant...s-group-finds/
Vigilante attacks in Mexico on the rise.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...110547677.html
Record levels of violence in Mexico and people's frustration with the inability of police to tackle it are driving a surge in vigilante justice.
Angry mobs are behind a growing number of lynchings and have even been accused of burning alleged criminals alive.
Rights groups say at least 121 people have been killed by angry mobs since the start of 2015.
Al Jazeera's Manuel Rapalo reports from Tecamac in Mexico.
https://www.talkofthetown.co.za/2019...carrying-guns/
“The police have investigated the authenticity of the clip and have opened a case in terms of the Gatherings Act,” said spokesperson Col Priscilla Naidu.
“It is alleged that on Sunday, May 26 2019 about 2pm, a convoy of civilians proceeded through the streets of Gelvandale brandishing firearms. The convoy was stopped by police as they entered Ext 31 in Bethelsdorp. They were dispersed by police.”
In the video, a man carrying a loudhailer can be seen in a car driving around, calling on gangsters to come out. Five other men are seen walking in front of the vehicle, carrying guns.
The police have warned community members against taking the law into their hands.
“Any marches must be done within the ambit of the law. Acts such as this are seen as counteracting our efforts for constructive and meaningful engagements with community leaders and religious fraternities,” Naidu said.
She said the police are investigating.
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