The solicitor of a man found guilty of raping a Donegal women told the court that he had a “badly incorrect” view of what rape is. Kelvin Opoku (33) is one of two Ghanaian nationals who raped the young woman in their flat in Letterkenny in 2015. Opoku and Boakye Osei (29), both living in Letterkenny were […]
A judge has ordered the arrest of former Labour senator James Heffernan (40) after the Limerick man failed to appear at Dublin District Court on charges of theft and an offence against the Public Order Act.
Germany’s highest court has overturned a ban on assisted suicide, introduced in 2015, which was ‘supposed to prevent anyone offering assisted sucide as a commercial venture’ while excempting from punishment ‘relatives or doctors who helped a single patient to die on a one-off basis’; the German constitutional court ruled that the ban meant those ‘offering […]
The Association of Accredited Clinics for Voluntary Interruption of Pregnany (ACAI) has been found guilty of misleading advertising by a Spanish court in a case taken against the network of abortion clinics.
A paralysed former builder from Leeds, 63-year-old Paul Lamb, has failed in his ‘High Court bid to challenge the law on assisted dying’; having ‘lost a right-to-die case in the Supreme Court in 2014’, he argued that ‘the current law, which bans assisted suicide under threat of up to 14 years in jail, is discriminatory […]
Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, has been remanded in custody once more pending an extradition hearing next February which could see him transferred to the USA on spying charges.