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Source: Sify , Thaindian.com Kancheepuram, India -- An Indian court has sentence a 55-year-old US resident to five-years of  "rigorous imprisonment" after finding him guilty of for sexually assaulting minors, the Indian news site Sify reports. A magistrate pronounced the sentence on July...

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: Toronto Star , Xtra In the weeks before his slaying, prominent Toronto gay bar owner Janko Naglic told his doctor and a lawyer that he was worried because his live-in lover was threatening to kill him, the man's murder trial has heard. Latest: Mendez-Romero acquitted of murder charge (3/4...

Source: Toronto Star , Canada.com TORONTO - A prominent member of the gay community in Toronto was killed by his partner of more than 10 years because their relationship was over and he was afraid of losing his lavish lifestyle, the prosecution argued Tuesday. Latest: Mendez-Romero acquitted of murder...

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: TV3 News There has been a hung jury in the murder trial of a teenager accused of murdering a gay Palmerston North man Stanley Waipouri. The jury deliberated for nearly 11 hours on the charges against Andre Gilling, but was unable to reach a verdict. The 18-year-old has been remanded in custody...

Source: Independent Online (South Africa) (Cape Argus) A colleague of restaurant manager Andrew Merryweather told a court that the comment "look at these gay guys" had triggered the assault outside a Claremont petrol station. Progress Mphande was testifying during the trial of seven teen-age...

Source: News.com.au Perth -- A SELF-harming teenage student who was struggling with solvent abuse was seduced by her home economics teacher into a lesbian affair, a Perth court has heard. The accused teacher, Elizabeth Anne Crothers, 50, is on trial in the West Australian District Court charged with...

Source: Melbourne Herald-Sun Perth -- A HOME economics teacher who began a lesbian relationship with a teenage student was taking advantage of the girl's insecurities and lack of self-esteem, the Perth District Court was told yesterday. Elizabeth Anne Crothers, 50, has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts...