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Source: BBC News , Daily Mail The man accused of killing a gay man at an English gay cruising spot put forward a version of the "gay panic defense" Monday as trial started for what the prosecution called a "deliberate" and "ferocious" homophobic attack. Mark Malone , 30...

Source: The Local Stockholm -- A 35-year-old man thought to be a serial murderer was indicted on Tuesday, suspected of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and theft. All of the suspect’s victims were gay men, reports The Local , an English-language Swedish news site. The man, whose name cannot...

Source: Monsters & Critics , AFP Two men were jailed for five years each today after being found guilty of a £50,000 ($100,000 USD) blackmail plot against a member of the royal family. Ian Strachan and Sean McGuigan demanded the money for a set of recordings featuring "scandalous" remarks...

Source: Telegraph , Sun , Metro Anthony Morley, left -- once crowned Mr. Gay UK, was arrested after Damian Oldfield's body was found with a chunk of flesh missing from his leg photos via Daily Mail An advertising executive for the London gay lifestyle magazine Bent was found stabbed to death at the...

Source: Wimbledon Guardian , Surrey Advertiser Walton, England -- A 29-YEAR-OLD man appeared at Staines Magistrates’ Court, today (Friday) charged with the murder of a 50-year-old gay man, knifed to death at at a gay cruising spot near the public toilets by Walton Bridge on Tuesday. Unemployed Mark Malone...

Source: Wandsworth Borough Guardian , Times (London) , Press Association , Surrey Advertiser , and Wimbledon Guardian [Updated 2/20 with information about arrest] A man has been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a man who was found stabbed at public toilets in Walton. Surrey Police said a 29-year...

Source: Press Association and BBC News BBC Radio 4 presenter Nigel Wrench was cleared of raping a man he met at a New Year party. Mr Wrench, 47, was accused of forcing the younger man to perform a sex act on him in January last year. The presenter on Radio 4's PM programme bowed his head and sighed...

Source: Times (London) and Sunday Mirror A gay BBC radio presenter spiked a man's champagne after a party and forced him to submit to a sex act, a rape trial jury heard yesterday. Nigel Wrench, 47, who fronted the PM show on Radio 4, is said to have used the drug Temazapam on the 26-year-old. The...

Source: UK Gay News RIGA, January 15, 2008 – An assistant to one of the members of the Latvian Saeima (Parliament) was found guilty today in a criminal case of “hooliganism” during the Riga Gay Pride in 2006 when participants had excrement thrown at them. Janis Dzelme, a 32-years old married man with...

Source: The Herald The leader of the national support organisation for Scotland's young lesbian, gay and bisexual community is being held in custody after being charged with offences relating to child pornography, it emerged last night. Officials at the Crown Office confirmed Jamie Rennie, chief...