She was found guilty of manslaughter and arson with intent

UK: Barbara Zhanje was yesterday convicted of starting a fire that took the lives of a mother and her three-year-old daughter.

Zimbabwe-born Zhanje set fire to her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, which were located in a multi-occupancy house while he was away.

The blaze took the lives of innocent victims Bola Ejifunmilayo, 29, and her daughter Fiyin, three, when the fire travelled into their second floor room in Milton Keynes last September.

The 48 year-old from Northamptonshire pleaded not guilty to two counts of manslaughter.

She was found guilty of manslaughter and arson with intent by St Albans Crown Court and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

While sentencing her, miltonkeynes.co.uk quoted Judge Stephen Gullick to have told Zhanje: “It is clear you were determined to find out what he was up to. When you failed, you decided to teach him a lesson. It was a spiteful act.

“You caused two innocent people, one a three-year-old child, to lose their lives. You took no steps to alert anyone to what you had done. This is not a case where you have expressed remorse.”

UK: A teenage girl who hit a black woman with a bottle and subjected her to racial abuse in a nightclub has avoided prison.

Paige Stone, 19, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, pleaded guilty to hitting Charlene Douglas on the forehead with a bottle.

The attack occurred at the Moo Moo club on 5th September last year, after Paige had initially hurled racial abuse at Ms. Douglas.

Kim James, prosecuting, told Gloucester Crown Court that Ms. Douglas' hairline was cut as a result.

Stone was given a 32-week detention sentence which will be suspended for 15 months. She was also ordered by Judge William Hart to attend an alcohol treatment programme and placed on a weekend curfew for 15 weeks.

According to website thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, Judge Hart said: "You abused the victim in a foul way, but I don't consider it necessary to send you to prison because of your youth, your guilty plea and your lack of previous convictions."

The judge concluded by agreeing that the language Stone used was "vulgar", rather than stemming from a hatred of black people.

Ricky Preddie sent back to jail after breaching terms of his parole

UK: One of the two brothers convicted of killing 10-year-old Damilola Taylor has reportedly been sent back to jail.

Ricky Preddie, who was jailed for eight years in 2006 over the manslaughter of Damilola Taylor, was brought back to jail after breaching the terms of his parole.

It is claimed that Preddie was arrested and returned to a south London prison, after he was seen with gang members last Friday.

Nigerian-born Damilola had moved to Britain from his homeland a few months before he was attacked by Preddie and his brother Danny in 2000.

Ricky Preddie then aged 13 and Danny 12, stabbed Damilola with a broken beer bottle. Damilola was then left to bleed to death in a stairwell near his home in Peckham, south London.

After a series of investigations, both brothers were convicted of manslaughter and imprisoned for eight years.

Last September, Ricky Preddie was released after serving half of his sentence for the killing. His brother remains in custody due to offences committed whilst in prison.

ITALY: A 39 year old Italian man has been arrested in Avenza (Massa Carrara) and charged with abduction, rape and robbery.

The man is suspected to have picked up a Nigerian sex worker from the street where she was waiting for clients.

After agreeing to spend the night in the man’s home, something apparently went wrong and he ended up taking away the woman’s purse, beating and raping her.

The man later on decided to take the woman to the hospital after realising that she was injured.

He was arrested following investigations by the Carabinieri.

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