Man jailed for stabbing officers

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25 October 2011 Last updated at 14:28 GMT John Onyenaychi has a history of violence A man has been jailed for a minimum of 25 years for the attempted murder of two police officers in west London.

John Onyenaychi cut PC Paul Madden's throat and slashed at community support officer Piotr Dolata in Ealing.

The Old Bailey heard the attack was the culmination of a five-day crime spree by the 30-year-old last December.

Onyenaychi, of Wise Road, Stratford, east London, was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder and of attacking a third officer.

As well as the attempted murder charges, Onyenaychi - who received a life sentence - was convicted of causing grievous bodily harm with intent, robbery and attempting to cause grievous bodily harm.

The court heard the defendant cut PC Madden's throat as people watched and then lashed out with his knife at other officers who tried to restrain him.

PC Madden's life was saved by retired heart surgeon Samad Tadjkarimi who happened to pass the scene as he was Christmas shopping.

Mr Tadjkarimi, who had retired from Harefield Hospital three weeks earlier, told the court he had seen the officer lying on the ground with "lots of dark blood on the right side of his neck".

"I turned my attention to him immediately and I compressed his neck, holding it," he said.

"It's my duty, I guess. I'm sure anyone in my profession would do the same.

"It's very humbling that my intervention perhaps contributed to the outcome of possibly saving his life - a very brave young officer."

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PC Madden, 23, received emergency surgery for injuries to his neck, throat and face. He was left with permanent scarring.

PCSO Dolata, 27, needed 12 stitches to his head.

The Recorder of London, Judge Peter Beaumont, said Onyenaychi had not shown any remorse.

He added: "He used a knife on the face and neck of a police officer who was doing his job.

"Paul Madden would have died within two to three minutes, such was the loss of his blood, without the help he received from the passing retired doctor."

John Onyenaychi cut PC Paul Madden's throat and slashed at community support officer Piotr Dolata

The jury heard that minutes before the attack, Onyenaychi had become agitated when challenged about his ticket on a bus in New Broadway.

Support officers called to the scene recognised him as a man who was wanted for a previous attack.

PC Madden, who thought Onyenaychi might be armed, was stabbed as he tried to arrest him.

The trial heard the defendant was on licence at the time, having been jailed for two years for causing death by dangerous driving while under the influence of drugs.

While in jail, he attacked a prison officer, using a pencil as a homemade weapon, and committed other violent offences.

He had also stolen a laptop in Fulham, west London, six days before the stabbings in Ealing.

Onyenaychi threatened to murder the computer's owner, telling him "I do this for a living", the court heard.

Det Ch Insp John McFarlane said: "He is one of the most dangerous men in Britain."

He refused to come out of his cell throughout his trial.

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U.S. met Cubans over jailed American, official says

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WASHINGTON | Fri Oct 14, 2011 1:42pm EDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials met Cuban officials recently to discuss the case of Alan Gross, an American aid contractor imprisoned on the communist-ruled island, U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Friday.

But she declined to comment on a U.S. media report which said Washington offered to let a convicted Cuban spy freed last week from a U.S. jail, Rene Gonzalez, return home immediately in exchange for Havana's release of Gross.

The Associated Press report, citing unnamed U.S. officials, said Cuba rebuffed the American offer to lift parole restrictions requiring Gonzalez to remain in the United States for three years. Havana asked that Washington also pardon at least some of the four other Cuban spies who were jailed along with Gonzalez in 2001, according to the report.

"I can confirm that a meeting between U.S. officials and the Cubans did take place as part of our efforts to get Alan Gross home," Sherman told the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, adding the meeting was "quite recent."

"I cannot comment on what was said in that meeting," she said.

Gross was sentenced in Cuba this year to 15 years in prison for crimes against the Cuban state. When arrested in 2009, the contractor was working for a U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) pro-democracy program and was accused by Havana of illegally distributing Internet and satellite communications equipment on the island.

U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, which has eased restrictions on U.S. travel and remittances to the Caribbean island, has said Gross must be released before any further moves to improve U.S.-Cuba ties can go ahead.

The release a week ago of Gonzalez, a Cuban intelligence agent jailed for spying on Cuban exiles, raised some speculation that he could be exchanged for Gross. Gonzalez had served 13 years of his 15-year sentence in the United States.

"We have always said we would use all diplomatic channels to try to get Alan Gross home. We continue to call on the Cuban government to release Mr. Gross on humanitarian grounds, and to allow him to return to his family and bring to an end the long ordeal that began well over a year and a half ago," Sherman told lawmakers.

Gonzalez, 55, was the first to be freed of the so-called "Cuban Five" espionage agents arrested in 1998.

Gonzalez left the jail in Florida but his original sentence included the condition that he spend three years of supervised release in the United States.

Cuba's government and Gonzalez' family and supporters are demanding he be allowed to immediately leave the United States, saying he is at risk from possible reprisals by the Cuban exiles on whom he was convicted of spying.

Representative David Rivera, a Republican from Miami, which has a large Cuban-American population, told Sherman he was angered by the Associated Press report that U.S. officials as well as a former U.S. state governor, Bill Richardson, had discussed with the Cubans a possible swap of Gonzalez for Gross.

It was "outrageous," Rivera said, "that we would be negotiating with a terrorist regime to release an American hostage." Cuba is on the official U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

(Reporting by Susan Cornwell; Editing by Vicki Allen)

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Jailed Knox dreams of simple pleasures, father says

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Amanda Knox (2nd R), the U.S. student convicted of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy in November 2007, arrives in court for her appeal trial session in Perugia September 26, 2011. Knox is appealing against a 26-year jail term imposed after she was found guilty of murdering Kercher with the help of her Italian then boyfriend and another man during a drug-fuelled orgy. Prosecutors have asked the appeals court to extend her sentence to life in jail.

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PERUGIA, Italy | Tue Sep 27, 2011 10:56am EDT

PERUGIA, Italy (Reuters) - Jailed American student Amanda Knox is anxious but hopeful of walking free from the Italian prison where she has been held for the murder of her roommate in an Italian university town nearly four years ago, her father said.

Knox, from Seattle, is serving a 26-year jail term after being found guilty along with her Italian ex-boyfriend of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia during an orgy that turned violent.

A verdict in her appeals trial is days away.

"The simplest thing of lying down in the grass is something she's looking forward to, just the aspect of petting one of her cats," said her father, Curt Knox, who has been in court daily as the appeals trial draws to a close.

"It's the smallest things that are going to be a life-changer for her."

Knox's hopes of going home have been boosted by a forensics review that discredited key DNA evidence used to secure a conviction, and her family have been conducting a tireless and well organized public relations campaign on her behalf.

Regular media appearances by family members and friends have helped counteract the lurid image of "Foxy Knoxy," the cunning, sex-obsessed party girl with a penchant for dangerous games portrayed by prosecutors and in some media accounts.

The 24 year-old, who was studying in Perugia at the time of Kercher's murder, is now widely seen in the United States as an innocent American entangled in an opaque and unfair justice system and her release is widely expected.

She has appeared gaunt and pale during closing arguments by prosecutors and lawyers and her father said she had a particularly tough day on Monday when one lawyer called her "diabolic" and a "she-devil."

"She has definitely lost some weight, it's tough for her to sleep," he said. "If you put yourself in her shoes where in a matter of days a judge and jury are going to decide what happens to your life, I don't know if I'd sleep very well either."

Curt Knox said his family hoped to one day reach out to the family of Kercher, who was on a year-long exchange programme in Italy when she was killed.

"In interviews we have done we have tried to send our deepest condolences for the loss of their daughter," he said.

"But until they know Amanda had nothing to do with the loss of their daughter I don't know how they would accept our condolences personally. But I really look forward to the day we can reach out to them and they know the truth that Amanda had nothing to do with it."

(Additional reporting by Hanna Rantala and Gabriele Pileri)

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  Up to 1,000 revellers were in the nightclub in Bangkok when the blaze broke out Two people have been jailed in Thailand over a fire in a Bangkok nightclub that killed 67 people.
Owner Wisuk Sejsawat was sentenced to three years in prison, as was Boonchu Laosrinak, who was responsible for pyrotechnics at the club.
The blaze broke out in the Santika Club in the early hours of 1 January 2009, when up to 1,000 people were inside.
Those killed died from burns, smoke inhalation or crush injuries as people struggled to escape.
More than 100 other people were injured in the fire.
The court acquitted four other people in connection with the case, including the lead singer of the band playing at the time of the fire, who was accused of letting off fireworks that sparked the blaze.
Prosecutors said "there was already solid evidence that the fire was caused by lighting effects", not the singer's actions.
After the fire, it emerged that the Santika was licensed as a private residence, not a club, and was operating in a zone where nightclubs were banned.

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