Category: Crime News

British “Catfish” Sentenced To 8 Years For Sexual Assualt

 

Andy Kelvin—AP Gayle Newland was sentenced after she duped a female friend into having sex by pretending to be a man, on Sept. 9, 2015.
 
A British woman who pretended to be a man to have sex with a female friend has been sentenced to eight years in prison for sexual assault.

Prosecutors say 25-year-old Gayle Newland went to great lengths to create a male persona, setting up a Facebook account in the name “Kye Fortune.”
The pair spoke by phone over the course of two years and eventually met, with Newland persuading her friend to wear a blindfold.

The deception was discovered when the complainant removed her mask and saw Newland wearing a prosthetic penis.
Passing sentence Thursday, Judge Roger Dutton called Newland’s behavior a callous breach of trust.

Newland claimed her accuser always knew she was pretending to be a man, but a jury convicted her of sexual assault.

Source | Time Magazine 

Rosa Parks Set It Off: Police Report 

  
60 years ago Ms. Rosa Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus Dec. 1, 1955. It lead to a bus boycott and became a signal moment in the Civil Rights movement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center shared an image of the police report written about Parks on the 60th anniversary of her act of ‘civil disobedience’.
   

  

Salute the Beautiful, Fearless & Brave Rosa Parks! 

Photo: Facebook 

 

Jamaican Druglord ‘Dudus’ Coke Refuses To Attend Tivoli Enquiry 

  

Via Jamaica Observer– Efforts by Public Defender Arlene Harrison Henry to have former Tivoli Gardens don Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke testify in the Tivoli Enquiry have hit a brick wall.

Queen’s Counsel Lord Gifford told the enquiry on Monday that the public defender made an attempt, through Coke’s attorney in the United States, to have him return to the island and give evidence but Coke said that he wasn’t interested in participating. 

Former Public Defender Earl Witter had recommended in his interim report that the enquiry hear from Coke.

Coke in serving a 20-year sentence in the US after being extradited in June 2010 to face drugs and gunrunning charges. 

He pleaded guilty to reduced charges.

The enquiry is looking into the deaths of 73 people resulting from the police-military operation to apprehend Coke in May 2010.