Three Britons, including a teenager, have been sentenced to a total of 50 years in jail for murdering an Indian-origin lab technician, Anthony Fernandes, in the latter’s London home in a cannabis-fuelled frenzy in July last year.
Jason Terry, 16, was jailed for 13 years while accomplices Paul Maddix, 44, was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 16 years in jail.
Darren Listen, 27, was jailed for life with a minimum sentence of 18 years.
Armed with six different knives, the killers stabbed Goa-origin Fernandes, 46, at least 17 times.
The three had kicked their way into his home after a drinking binge while Maddix and Terry had also smoked cannabis. Maddix made a 999 call from the scene and confessed to the murder but was overheard telling his two friends to leave the scene before the police arrived.
Fernandes died in hospital from blood loss.
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Catholic women march in Vatican to be priests
Vatican City : Eight Roman Catholic women staged a one-minute demonstration for women’s ordination on Tuesday in St Peter’s Square before the police intervened.
The protesters wearing lavender stoles, the symbol of the movement for women’s ordination, unfurled banners reading “Born to be priests” and “Vocation is important, not gender” in the illegal protest. Three police officers stopped the protest, the fourth such action according to Erin Hanna, head of the US-based Women’s Ordination Conference, admitting that they had no permit. “If women don’t do it, no one will,” Colette Joyce of London, an activist from a group of would-be women priests called New Wine,said. —AFP
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Russia: Cancer patient shoots dead doc, self
Moscow : A cancer patient on Tuesday shot his doctor dead before committing suicide in a hospital near here.
The patient, who had been released from the Pushkin Medical Research Centre Hospital, sneaked into the building with a 16mm airgun and shot the doctor in the head, killing him.
Later, the patient committed suicide by shooting himself, Interfax reported on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, officials in Russia’s violence-wracked southern province of Dagestan say a judge has been shot dead in his home.
The police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said on Tuesday that Abdurakhman Gamzatov’s body was found overnight with two bullet wounds in his home in the town of Untsukul. —PTI,AP