A Turkish court has sentenced a gunman to life in prison without parole for carrying out a deadly attack on an Istanbul nightclub in 2017 that left 39 people dead and dozens injured. Istanbul’s Heavy Penal Court No. 27 handed Abdulkadir Masharipov forty aggravated life sentences on Monday, 7 September. Masharipov, an Uzbek national, was […]
Zahid Younis, 36, has been found guilty of murdering Henriett Szucs and Mihrican “Canan” Mustafa, whose bodies were found inside a freezer in the killer’s flat in Canning Town, East London, in April 2019. The verdict was given this afternoon at Southwark Crown Court, on the third of the jury’s deliberations. He was sentenced to life […]
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a man accused of murdering two vulnerable women and storing their bodies in a freezer in his flat in Customs House, East London. Zahid Younis, 36, is accused of murdering Hungarian national Henriett Szucs, who slept rough in Ilford, and mother-of-three Mihrican Mustafa, […]
The man accused of killing Mihrican Mustafa and Hungarian national Henriett Szucs is “manipulative and controlling”, who inflicted “very significant violence” on his victims, a court has heard. The remains of mother-of-two Mihrican Mustafa (known as Canan to her Turkish Cypriot family and Mary Jane to friends) and Henriett Szucs were discovered by police in […]
There has been public uproar and protests following the brutal killing of Pınar Gültekin, a 27-year-old university student whose body was found in the Aegean district of Muğla on Tuesday, 21 July. She had been missing since 16 July after stepping out of her flat in Muğla. Police were able to track her movements by […]
A young British footballer of mixed Barbadian-Turkish Cypriot heritage has issued a statement calling for “justice” and “a level playing field” for people of colour. Liverpool striker Rhian Brewster, who is currently on loan to Swansea, made his comments on social media earlier today, writing that “For years & generations we’ve been screaming out for […]
A Turkish court has accepted charges against twenty suspects over the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. The decision from Istanbul’s Heavy Penal Court, on April 11, came after Turkish prosecutors presented 117-page indictment accusing 20 Saudi nationals of involvement in the gruesome murder. Among those accused are […]
The second anniversary of an unsolved murder case has promoted police to appeal for witnesses and offer a £20,000 reward for anyone providing information that leads to a conviction of the person or persons responsible. Of Turkish origin, businessman Cafer Aslan, who ran a venue called Yavruvatan Sports Club in Edmonton, North London, was aged […]
Shockwaves in Turkey over the killing of a mother in front of her child by her ex-husband have sparked a new debate over the country’s domestic violence record. Emine Bulut, 38, was stabbed to death in a cafe on 18 August by her former husband in the central Anatolian city of Kırıkkale, some 50km east […]
Police have arrested three people following the murder of Nedim Birgim, who was knifed to death on a busy main road in Islington, North London, on Tuesday evening, 29 January. The emergency services raced to the scene after receiving reports of an assault in Caledonian Road, by the junction with Tilloch Street, North London, at […]
