Murder in English law

Laurentis Laurentiadis and six co-defendants who faced serious charges in a case of attempted murder of hotelier Athenagoras Andreadakis were judged innocent of having placed an explosive device in a flowerpot intended for the plaintiff.

A Turkish court lessened the penalty of a man who stabbed his wife to death in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r on Feb. 14, 2015, from a life sentence to 20 years in prison on the conviction that the perpetrator would not commit a murder again.

The Higher Court in Belgrade has confirmed the indictment against Maja Adrovac, who has been charged as an accomplice in the attempted murder of Milan Beko.

Adrovac can appeal against this decision before the Court of Appeals that will rule on the indictment's validity. The trial can be scheduled only once this takes place.

Greece’s relevant on Tuesday reverted to his criminologist background in predicting that a man charged this week with killing his four-year-old daughter will either commit suicide or die “a violent death”!

A 59-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of his wife in Thessaloniki.

The man stabbed to death the 60-year-old woman after a bout of heavy drinking last December.

He told the court that he regretted his actions but judges imposed a full life term despite his apparent remorse.

The captain of the South Korean ferry that sank in April with the loss of more than 300 lives was jailed for 36 years Nov. 11, but acquitted of murdering those who died in the disaster.
      

Prosecutors have pressed murder charges and demanded aggravated life sentences against eight managers of the disaster-struck Soma mine that claimed the lives of 301 workers on May 13.

The prosecutor handling an investigation into neofascist Golden Dawn on Thursday proposed that all the party’s 16 MPs, as well as two deputies who have quit the party and dozens more GD members stand trial on a string of charges ranging from running a criminal organization to murder and weapons offenses.

A soccer fan who was hospitalized after crowd trouble in Crete earlier this month died early on Monday.

Costas Katsoulis, 47, was taken to the hospital in Iraklio after fighting broke out in the stands at a third division game between local side Irodotos and Ethnikos of Piraeus.

Thailand's junta chief apologised Sept. 18 for suggesting tourists in bikinis could be more vulnerable to attack, comments which caused an international outcry following the brutal murder of two British holidaymakers.