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Pirate Named Sinbad Charged in Raid That Left 16 Fishermen Dead or Missing

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Cops say Sinbad led the raid off the pirate-plagued waters between Guyana and Suriname

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A notorious pirate leader known as Sinbad has been charged with organizing a bloody attack in the Caribbean that left more than a dozen fisherman dead or missing.

Premnauth Persaud — a much-feared pirate who goes by the name of Sinbad — was arrested last week in Guyana and has been pegged as the mastermind behind the late April attack on a fleet of small fishing boats off the coast of neighboring Suriname.

Of the 25 sailors aboard, only nine are believed to have survived. Four bodies have been recovered and a dozen more are missing, police say.

According to survivors, the pirates boarded the ships and began hacking away at crew members with cutlasses. Others were thrown overboard and then hit on the head with oars  Some victims had weights strapped to their legs before being thrown into the water, the Guyana Chronicle reported.

Earlier this week, Persaud, 43, and fellow pirate, Nakool “Fyah” Manohar, 39, were charged with the murder of two of the sailors slain in the cross-border raid. A third man, 19-year-old Alexander Denhart, has also been charged for taking part in the attack.

Premnauth ‘Sinbad’ Persaud

Investigators have said they believe the attack was launched in revenge for the drive-by shooting of Manohar’s brother — who was also a pirate leader — in Suriname in March.

In all, cops believe eight or ten pirates took part in the attack, in which they also stole fuel, fish and equipment.

Detectives say Manohar and his family began plotting the raid on the day of his brother’s funeral. Several of Manohar’s relatives, including his son, have already been arrested in Suriname. Cops are hunting for other well-known pirates who go by the names, “Dick,” “Bolo,” and “Crackhead.”

Piracy has long been an issue in the waters off Suriname and Guyana, although the number of incidents reported had been in decline in recent years.

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Teen Loses Hand in Sword Fight, Is Then Slapped With Severed Limb

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What started as a road rage incident quickly escalated into a full-on sword fight

SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Well, that certainly got out of hand.

A teenage motorist lost his hand after a road rage incident in the United Arab Emirates sparked an out-of-control sword fight, authorities said.

To add insult to injury, the man who chopped the teen’s hand off, picked up the severed extremity and used it to slap the victim across the face, Gulf News reported.

A criminal court heard this week how the road rage incident in January led to the sprawling, bloody sword fight in a park in the UAE’s third largest city of Sharjah.

The rumble involved two groups of teens, a dozen in all and all of them under the age of 16, prosecutors said.

The victim who had his hand chopped off had been trying to protect himself from a sword blow and had put his hands up in front of his face, his lawyer, Abdullah Salman, told the court.

After his hand hit the group, his attacker allegedly picked it up and began beating him with it, the court heard.

The victim’s pals were able to rush him and his severed hand to a local hospital where doctors were able to reattach it.

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Killer Croc Slays Pastor During Lakeside Baptism in Ethiopia

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The killer croc sprang from the waters of Lake Abaya during a baptism ceremony

ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia — God works in mysterious ways.

A protestant minister performing a lakeside baptism in Ethiopia was killed when a crocodile leapt up and dragged him into the murky waters.

“He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor,” local resident Ketema Kairo told the BBC.

Docho Eshete was conducting the baptism ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at the edge of Lake Abaya in Arba Minch in the southwestern Ethiopia when the crocodile leapt from the water and attacked him.

Fishermen and townsfolk sprang into action to save him but were unable to wrest his body from the crocodile in time. Using fishing nets, they managed to prevent the crocodile from taking the pastor into deeper water and were eventually able to pull his mangled body to shore.

“They only managed to get his dead body,” said Eiwnetu Kanko, a police officer from Arba Minch, 300 miles south of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

The pastor died from bites to his legs, back and hands, officials said. The crocodile escaped.

Abaya is Ethiopia’s second largest lake and is known for having a large crocodile population. The lake’s reddish brown waters make it hard to spot a crocodile until it surfaces.

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Trio Wanted After Walking Out on Giant Botox Bill at UK Plastic Surgery Clinic

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Cops are hunting for this trio of botox thieves

BEXLEY, United Kingdom — Beauty doesn’t come free.

Police in England are searching for a trio of thieves who walked out of a cosmetic surgery clinic without paying for thousands in botox and lip filler treatments.

Cops say the two women and a man walked into the Persona Cosmetic Medicine Clinic in Bexley in February and ran a bill of £2,000 ($2,650) in treatments and then ran out before paying.

The two women left behind some key evidence — in the form of before and after photos that were taken at the clinic. The photo of the man was taken elsewhere.

“Police would like to identify and speak to these three suspects,” the Bexley police said on Facebook. “The three suspects received treatments worth over £2,000 and then ran out of the premises without paying for the work.”

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Sicko Teen Mom Fixated on Human Sacrifice Jailed in Shock Sex Stabbing

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Zoe Adams had fantasized about human sacrifice before stabbing her boyfriend during sex

CARLISLE, United Kingdom — A sadistic teen mom obsessed with human sacrifice and gruesome murder videos, was sentenced to 11 ½ years in prison for brutally stabbing another teen five times out of the blue while having sex with him.

Zoe Adams, 19, claimed she doesn’t remember anything from the night when she plunged the 10-inch blade into Kieran Bewick’s chest, arm, leg and hand during a tryst last year at her home in the English town of Wigton.

Bewick, who was 16 at the time and is now 17, testified that Adams had drank half a bottle of vodka and had smoked marijuana the night of the attack, and appeared wearing clown makeup just before the two started having sex.

He said she he had tried to tie him up, but he had refused. She then told him to put a pillow over his face, because it would be “kinkier that way,” but then pulled out a knife she had been hiding behind her back and started stabbing him.

Bewick told police he felt his lung “pop and squirt” while bleeding from chest wounds following the attack, the BBC reported.

He suffered a collapsed lung, injuries to his upper arm, leg and hand, and was treated in hospital for “potentially life-threatening” injuries after fleeing the property and seeking help from a neighbor.

Bewick  told cops that Adams had a “fascination” for “gruesome murder videos,” and had sent him messages a month before the attack that described a mn  being “strapped up and used as a human sacrifice.”

Adams denied that she had an interest in sexual violence and insisted that she had blacked out the entire episode.

In a statement, Bewick said: “I am going to be scarred for the rest of my life, both physically and mentally.”

 

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Three U.S.-Based Mercenaries Convicted in Fatal Shooting in Philippines

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Joseph Hunter learned the hard way that being a mercenary isn’t what it used to be

NEW YORK — Two former U.S. soldiers and a professional weapons trainer who led second lives as mercenaries, have been convicted of gunning down a real estate agent in the Philippines in a murder-for-hire plot.

Ringleader Joseph Manuel Hunter, 52, was accused of hiring Adam Samia, 43, and Carl David Stillwell, 50, to gun down the woman in 2012 on behalf of global gun and drug runner.

According to prosecutors, Sami and Stillwell, both of North Carolina, posed as real estate customers and then shot the woman in the face as they drove through the countryside. They left her body on a pile of garbage where it was found days later. The motive for the killing has never been made entirely clear.

The men all face up to life in prison in the killing.

Hunter, a former first class sergeant in the U.S. Army,  had already pleaded guilty to a 2013 plot to kill a DEA agent in Thailand and has been serving a 20 year sentence.

He allegedly ran a private security and mercenary outfit called Echelon Associates for the smuggler, Paul Le Roux. Hunter arranged private security to businessman buying gold in Africa .

 

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Newlywed Sentenced to Death in Life Insurance Scalping Slay of Husband

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Annie Abdulla was charged with plotting the scalping death of her husband just months after they married in order to collect his life insurance

NEW AMSTERDAM, Guyana — A newlywed and her cousin have been sentenced to death for the brutal scalping slaying of the woman’s husband on a South American beach as part of a twisted plot to collect his life insurance.

Hemwattie Abdulla, 41, who is known as Annie, and her cousin, Seerojnie Permaul, were convicted earlier this month of plotting to kill Abdulla’s husband, a New York City cab driver, on a trip back to their native country of Guyana back in 2012.

Abdulla fainted after receiving her sentence and had to be revived before she was led away to spend the rest of her days in prison awaiting execution, the Stabroek News reported.

Her newlywed husband Abdool Shakeel Majid’s blood-splattered body was found dead on a beach with his scalp missing in April after he and his wife, whom he had married just four months earlier, had traveled home for a two week holiday.

After he had gone missing, Abdulla returned to New York where she told relatives that her husband had remained in South America for a few days longer while she came back to the U.S. to tend to her daughter who had broken her arm.

But while she was back in the U.S., investigators discovered blood in the trunk of the car the couple had rented as well as Abdulla’s driver’s license. They called her back to Guyana to identify Majid’s body, but arrested her when she arrived at the police station.

Authorities said that after getting married, Majid had taken out a sizeable life insurance policy.

Abdulla admitted to police that she had paid Permaul $5,000 to help her kill her husband, but said it was because he regularly beat her and she was desperate to get out of the marriage.

 

 

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Indian Swami Says Penis Cut Off By Woman Alleging Rape is as Good As New

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Swamy Gangeshananda is accused of raping the woman who cut his penis off

KOCHI, India — An Indian religious guru who had his penis chopped off by a woman who claimed he had raped her for years, held a press conference to announce that he had fully recovered and had forgiven his attacker.

Swamy Gangeshananda had undergone numerous surgeries to reattach his penis following the attack eight months ago by a 23-year-old woman who alleged he abused her repeatedly for many years. He has been charged with rape.

On said Wednesday he said  that he had “become a normal person after more than eight months’ life as a third gender person.” Doctors said he was again able to urinate and have sexual relations normally.

He declined to discuss the details of the allegations against him and the legal case, but claimed the attack was part of a bigger plot.

“I helped some people and they were behind the incident. My fate is similar to that of Jesus Christ, who was deceived by people close to him,” he said, according to the Times of India. “I do not have complaints against anyone and have forgiven those who attacked me.”

A month after the attack, Gangeshananda’s lawyer released a letter purportedly from the victim, claiming that the guru had never assaulted her and that her statement saying so had been concocted by police.

The local police say they believe the woman was pressured to change her story.

‘The woman told us that her parents blindly trusted this Swami, and he used to get frequent invites to perform special ceremonies and stay over at their house, where he assaulted her,’ district police chief, G. Sparjan Kumar said last year.

 

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N. Carolina Truck Driver Jailed For Lying About Role in Bosnian Massacre

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A woman weeps at a memorial to those slain in the Srebrenica massacre

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — A Serbian man who came to the U.S. in the 1990s as a refugee from the bloody Balkan wars, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying about his role in one of the war’s most brutal massacres.

Milan Trisic, 55, admitted that he was a member of the feared Bratunac Brigade during the war in Bosnia and Herzogovina and took part in the bloody Srebrenica massacre in 1995 in which up to 8,000 Muslim men and boys were summarily executed.

The killings are considered the worst war atrocity in Europe since World War II, and late last year, former Serbian general, Ratko Miladic, was found guilty by a U.N. tribunal of genocide and crimes against humanity for commanding the slaughter at Srebrenica and the siege of Sarajevo. He was sentenced to life in prison.

When Trisic applied for refugee status, prosecutors say he claimed to have lived in Serbia during the war, hiding the fact that he was involved in arresting and beating thousands of  Muslim prisoners and transporting them to be killed and buried in mass graves.

Once he moved to the United States, Trisic settled in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he became a truck driver and raised a family. He eventually obtained a green card by similarly lying about his wartime activities on his application.

“Those who wish to live in the United States ought to respect our laws, support our national security, and pursue residency legally and honestly.  Anything less is inexcusable,” said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Trisic will be deported back to Serbia upon completion of his sentence. It is unclear if he will face war crimes charges upon his return to his homeland.

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Sailor Presumed Dead After Going Overboard In Round-the-World Race

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Sailor John Fisher was swept overboard in a remote stretch of ocean between New Zealand and South America

IN THE REMOTE SOUTHERN OCEAN — A veteran rough seas sailor competing in the Volvo Ocean Race was presumed dead after going overboard in a harsh, remote stretch of ocean around 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn, officials said.

John Fisher, a 47-year-old native of Britain who lived in Adelaide, Australia, was swept overboard from the Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag’s 65-foot sloop in fierce weather conditions Monday, the competition’s organizer said.

Officials of the round-the-world race say the team searched for several hours in gale force winds and big waves before increasingly dangerous conditions forced them to resume course toward South America.

Given the ferocious conditions, it was impossible for the rest of the fleet — which was more than 200 miles away when Fisher disappeared — to join the search

“We must now presume that John has been lost at sea,” race president Richard Brisius said in a statement issued nearly 24 hours after Fisher was lost.

“This is heartbreaking for all of us,” Brisius said. “As sailors and race organizers, losing a crew member at sea is a tragedy we don’t ever want to contemplate. We are devastated and our thoughts are with John’s family, friends and teammates.”

Race officials said Fisher was on watch and wearing appropriate survival gear when he went overboard. He  was an experienced big boat sailor who was sailing in his first Volvo Ocean Race, the team’s website said.

Earlier in the race, a crewman on the same ship was swept overboard but was rescued within minutes. Skipper David Witt said at the time that the sailor was lucky to be alive.

The teams are currently on the seventh leg of the round-the-world trip, going from Auckland, New Zealand, to Itajai, Brazil. The entire race covers some 45,000 nautical miles.

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