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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: AAP via The Age A Melbourne teacher who blackmailed his gay lover using a video of them involved in a sex act has been fined and given a suspended sentence. David Robert Hicks, 31, has pleaded guilty to one count of blackmail. Hicks, whose address has been withheld for legal reasons, appeared...

Source: Toronto Star and Xtra The long-time lover of popular Toronto gay bar owner Janko Naglic has been acquitted of his first-degree murder by a jury that deliberated for around four hours. The jury returned with its not guilty verdict around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday following a three-week trial that heard...

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: Reuters via The Star and Xinhua RABAT -- A Moroccan appeal court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of six men jailed for homosexual acts after video images of a man dressed as a woman dancing at a party sparked street protests and a police investigation, lawyers said. The six were arrested in...

Source: ThisIsPlymouth.co.uk A stopped watch, a pair of cigarette butts and a fingerprint-smeared mug will all be submitted in evidence in a bid to clear the name of a man convicted of murdering 74-year-old Arthur Eathorne in Plymouth in 1990. Robert Kennedy has today begun his case at the Appeal Court...