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GHISLAINE Maxwell’s British former assistant Emmy Tayler is said to have left the UK in the wake of her one-time boss’s arrest. Ms Tayler, 45, is considered a possible key witness by New York prosecutors who have charged Maxwell with ...

Community leaders in Laingville and St Helena Bay on the Cape West Coast are adamant that police shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in the head during violent protests in the area — but the police deny that they were ...

What is more profitable than cocaine, heroin, marijuana or guns? Illegally trafficked cigarettes. For decades reputable tobacco companies have been complicit in cigarette smuggling. In a gripping Daily Maverick webinar, former SARS lawyer Telita Snyckers and Scorpio journalist Pauli van ...

Court hears children are languishing for months in detention for trivial offences Children found guilty of trivial offences, including the possession or use of cannabis, may not be incarcerated, the Johannesburg High Court has ruled. The question before Judges Ingrid ...

Emails between UK socialite Ghislaine Maxwell and the late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein have been revealed in a trove of unsealed court documents. Epstein tells Ms Maxwell she has done "nothing wrong" in the 2015 exchange, which appears to ...

Organised crime groups from the Western Balkans have become key players in various areas of smuggling in Western Europe, Latin America and South Africa, shows a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, a non-profit Swiss-based network ...

USA. A 22-year-old woman has reportedly said she was sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein in 2015 — years after he was first arrested for sex trafficking — and warned there may be a “wave” of younger victims who have yet ...

USA. A federal judge on Thursday unsealed civil court documents related to Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite arrested earlier this month on charges of aiding the sexual abuse of minor girls by the now-dead investor Jeffrey Epstein. But Judge Loretta ...

Seven Carabinieri police officers have been arrested in Italy on Wednesday over charges including but not limited to drug-dealing, extortion, torture and abuse of power. The officers were all operating at the Levante police station in the northern town of ...

Federal authorities identified a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer found dead Monday as the “primary subject” in a shooting at a federal judge’s New Jersey home that killed the jurist’s son and left her husband badly injured. U.S. District Judge Esther Salas ...

The son of a federal judge just assigned to a financial fraud case tied to the late convicted sex offender billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was killed and her husband critically injured after both were shot by a gunman dressed as a ...

BANGLADESH. Police have reportedly arrested three men in connection with the trafficking of young women to Dubai and forcing them into prostitution. The news was disclosed by the Criminal Investigation Department of police on Monday, when it released details of ...

Photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed spent a night with members of the Brixton SAPS and private security companies as they went on patrol as the sun set on Saturday 18 July. This is his account of the evening. I have covered the ...

ROMANIA. Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Romania, with Eurojust support and the cooperation and assistance of national authorities from several countries, have dismantled an organised criminal network responsible for drug trafficking. 15 people were indicted and almost 2 tons ...

Human rights activists in Paraguay have led a wave of fierce public indignation after a series of alarming cases in which sexual violence towards young girls has culminated in murder and child pregnancy. The highly conservative South American country has ...

OPPENAU, Germany. German police have captured a heavily armed suspect accused of stealing officers’ weapons, after a six-day manhunt for the “Black Forest Rambo”. The man, named by police as Yves Rausch, had been on the run since last Sunday morning after ...

USA. Defund the police. It’s the slogan on everyone’s lips these days, begging the question, “what will replace them?” Despite the enthusiasm for defunding, the answer remains vague. The city of Minneapolis, for instance, has voted to disband its police ...

GLASGOW, Scotland. “Paedophile hunters” do not violate the right to privacy, the Supreme Court has ruled while dismissing a convict’s appeal. Mark Sutherland was convicted after communicating with a member of an activist group, who he believed to be a ...

Authorities in western Germany are investigating 30,000 people suspected of taking part in a child abuse network. Peter Biesenbach, Justice Minister for the North Rhine-Westphalia state, told reporters on Monday that the investigation's findings so far were "extremely disturbing". "We need ...

Gunmen burst into an unregistered drug rehabilitation centre in central Mexico and opened fire Wednesday, killing 24 people and wounding seven, authorities said. Police in the north-central state of Guanajuato said the attack occurred in the city of Irapuato. Three ...

El Salvador president Nayib Bukele ordered a 24-hour lockdown of prisons containing gang members, and said their leaders would be sent into solitary confinement after a sudden spike in homicides. The remarkable announcement was made last Friday, after a series ...

Prosecutors have accused Maxwell, 58, of helping Epstein recruit and eventually abuse girls as young as 14 from 1994 to 1997 and lying about her role in depositions in 2016. Nathan set a trial date for July 12, 2021. A federal ...

MANHATTAN, USA. Ghislaine Maxwell is due to appear on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court via video feed for arraignment and bail arguments involving her alleged participation in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking of minor girls. The British friend of Epstein is ...

OFFENBURG, Germany. German authorities are performing a large-scale manhunt for a suspect who disarmed four police officers and made off with their weapons. Hundreds are officers are involved in the search for a 31-year-old man in the Black Forest region near ...

PHILLIPINES. Civil rights campaigners including two legislators called for an inquiry into police operations amid concerns some of the dead suspects could have been summarily executed by lawmen Filipino authorities say nine people have been killed in “anti-drug” attacks following ...

EUROPE. Hundreds of people from some of Europe's biggest crime groups have been arrested after a huge sting operation stemming from the infiltration of an encrypted phone network. French police cracked into the secure communication tool by EncroChat after opening ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE, USA. Ghislaine Maxwell, the infamous socialite linked to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been detained by the FBI. She was arrested in New Hampshire, in the US, according to law enforcement sources that spoke with the media. She is ...

BRITAIN. As lockdown eases, it’s become clear that nitrous oxide is the new recreational drug of choice for many young people in Britain. But what does it do to users – and why is it legal to buy? An epidemic ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. Life is slowly returning to the streets of Amsterdam. Well almost! The city’s famous Red Light District, is deserted. On a Saturday night, only a few neon signs still shine in the empty narrow streets, usually crowded with ...

LONDON, Britain. An 18-year-old who threw a six-year-old French boy from the balcony of London's Tate Modern was jailed on Friday to serve a life sentence. John Bravery, who was 17 when the crime was committed, claimed that voices in ...

CAPE TOWN. The courts took five days to issue a protection order for a woman who had already been the victim of two domestic violence incidents, according to a Cape Town attorney. Attorney Michael Dixon said that his counsel, advocate ...

JOHANNESBURG – President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday evening strongly condemned the recent spate of gender-based violence (GBV) cases in South Africa. In a televised address from Pretoria, the president said the country was in the midst of two devastating epidemics, the coronavirus and what ...

LIMPOPO, South Africa. Members of the South African Police Service (SAPS), in an effort to rid Limpopo of drugs, busted two suspects with illegal firearms, ammunition and drugs worth R10 million in a lab outside Marblehall on Tuesday 16 June ...

SAUDI ARABIA. The kingdom has launched its first mechanism to deal with human trafficking, providing government departments, law enforcement and civil society advice on how to deal with the issue. The National Trafficking in Persons Referral Mechanism (NRM) was created ...

KUWAIT. Due to an alleged involvement in human trafficking and money laundering, Kuwait officials have confirmed that a Bangladeshi lawmaker has been arrested. Kuwaiti Public Prosecution ordered remanding MP, Mohammad Shahid Islam, pending investigation, after being referred by the residence ...

JOHANNESBURG - The legal team representing the family of a South African man allegedly beaten to death by soldiers enforcing COVID-19 lockdown restrictions reacted with outrage to a leaked army report that said they are not liable for his death ...

ORINOCO RIVER DELTA, Venezuela. Venezuela’s Navy yesterday broke up three human trafficking camps on the country’s Orinoco Delta and rescued 79 people, including 25 minors, whom they said were being trafficked to criminal gangs in T&T. Through its Twitter account, ...