World AM News Briefs For Wednesday, 27 April 2016
Good Morning Australia!! - Justice at last for the survivors of those 96 killed in the Hillsborough Disaster - The worst dentist in the world is going to prison - PNG's supreme court declares Oz's Manus Island detention camp to be unconstitutional - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:
A UK jury says 96 football fans were"unlawfully killed" in the infamous 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, and ruled that police Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield was "responsible for manslaughter by gross negligence" due to a breach of his duty of care. On 15 April 1989, thousands of fans gathered outside a planned match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at the Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield. Duckenfield ordered only one entrance opened, causing a crush that killed the 96 and injured more than 700 more people. The disaster was made worse by the outlandish and thoroughly debunked claims pushed by Rupert Murdoch's tabloid The Sun that the Liverpool fans attacked cops and medics, and picked the pockets of the dead. Murdoch's tabloid would not apologize until 2004.
Papua New Guinea's Supreme Court says that detaining people at Manus Island violates the constitutional guarantee of Personal Liberty, and the governments of Australia and PNG should immediately take steps to remove people from the prison camp. Australian Greens immigration spokeswoman Sarah Hanson-Young said, "Really, the Government now has no other option but to bring the people left there to Australia and allow them to apply for an Australian visa." But Federal Immigration Minister Peter Dutton insists none will be allowed to live in Australia.
An al Qaeda affiliate is claiming responsibility for the hacking murders of two LGBT activists in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Monday. Since 2013, at least 20 people, including professors, secular writers and bloggers, and others have been killed in attacks blamed on Islamist militants. Islamic State said it was responsible for the murder of a university professor a few days earlier.
Thousands are calling for an end to elephant rides at Cambodia's historic Angor Wat temple complex after one of the animals died after ferrying tourists in 40 C degree temperatures. "Veterinarians concluded that the elephant's death was caused by the hot temperatures which caused stress, shock, high blood pressure and a heart attack," said Oan Kiri, a manager at Angkor Elephant Company. Making it even worse, the elephant was older than 40 years, making it a very senior citizen in elephant terms. Animal rights activists say that elephant rides are among the most abusive activities, with most of the cruelty hidden from the view of tourists.
The organizer of a party at a Taiwan water park where 15 people were killed in a fire was found guilty of negligence and sentenced to four years, ten months in prison. Lu Chung-chi, the owner of Colour Play Asia, was not in court when the judge read the verdict; local media says he could still appeal. About 1,000 people were watching the performance last June, in which the audience - most wearing nothing but swim suits - were sprayed with foam and coloured powder. However, the powder's ignition temperature is 500 C degrees, and the stage lights are easily twice that hot. The powder burst into flames, burning victims up to 40 percent of their bodies.
Prosecutors in Norway are now appealing court ruling that said Anders Behring Breivik had been mistreated in prison by being kept in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours per day. Breivik is serving a 21-year prison sentence for killing 77 people in two attacks on 22 July 2011, mostly children at a Labor Party youth camp. BTW, a typical cell at his prisonis a private room with its own shower and toilet, computer and television, and a window with curtains.
The worst dentist in the world has been sentenced to eight years in prison for deliberately mutilating the mouths of 120 patients in rural France. Prosecutors said 51-year old Dutchman Jacobus van Nierop "took pleasure" in needlessly removing teeth as well as causing infections and horrific injuries to patients in his office in the small central town of Chateau-Chinon. When authorities finally started to suspect some was amiss about van Nierop, he fled to Canada in 2014 and tried to fight extradition.
Funk-rock musician Prince did not leave a will before his untimely death at his Paisley Park home outside Minneapolis last week. His sister Tyka Nelson filed court papers asking for a special administrator to oversee Prince's estate, which could be worth US$200 Million. Tyka Nelson is Prince's only surviving full sibling, but her motion lists herself and six half siblings and a deceased half-sister as his potential heirs.