Special Counsel’s Bid to Arrest Yoon Fails: Court Cites Lack of Summons

Former President Yoon Suk-yeol secured an early advantage in a legal standoff with Special Counsel Cho Eun-suk’s team, which is investigating allegations of insurrection, after a court rejected a request for his arrest warrant. The special counsel’s office, which had already imposed a travel ban on Yoon following the launch of its investigation, filed for … Read more

Victim Urges Against Early Release of the Stranger Who Raped Her

On a summer’s night in July 2019, Kate was out with one of her best friends. They had cocktails and went dancing. That evening, she was taken to a stranger’s flat and raped. The man responsible, Albanian national Miridon Bera, was convicted and jailed in March 2023, but may now be transferred to prison in … Read more

Man Allegedly Hires Hitman for $2,000 to Kill Wife

A Swansea man accused of conspiring to have his estranged wife murdered paid £1,500 to a friend to hire a “hitman”, a court has heard. Paul Lewis, 54, from Fishmarket Quay, Swansea, and Dominique Saunders, 35, also from Fishmarket Quay, both deny conspiracy to murder between 28 February 2023 and 30 April 2023. The jury … Read more