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The definition of false imprisonment under UK law and legislation is the "Unlawful imposition or constraint of another's freedom of movement from a particular place." [14] False imprisonment is where the defendant intentionally or recklessly, and unlawfully, restricts the claimant's freedom of movement totally. [15]
Teenagers Rhonda Johnson and Sharon Shaw disappeared while at a beach in Galveston, Texas, on August 4, 1971; their remains were found in a marsh in January 1972. Though Michael Lloyd Self, a local sex offender, wrote a confession, he contended that police officers forced him to do so at gunpoint. Self was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975.
In 2001, he was charged with four counts of obtaining money by false pretenses, but the jury deadlocked. A new fraud trial was later scheduled for July 2003. In December 2002, Zain succumbed to his liver cancer and died in his home in Ormond Beach, Florida .
Mark Alan Norwood, a Bastrop dishwasher who lived in Austin in the mid-1980s, was charged, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment on March 27, 2013, for the 1986 murder of Christine Morton. [9] In September 2016, he was convicted in a separate case for the January 1988 murder of Debra Masters Baker in her Austin home. [ 10 ]
Gribble's first recorded offense occurred at age 18, when he was arrested for false imprisonment after accosting a woman in Texas City on April 10, 1981. [3] Facing 10 years imprisonment if convicted, he instead accepted a plea deal with the prosecution that mitigated the sentence to 10 years probation and a $750 fine. [3]
A 19-year-old sentenced in Texas for the repeated rape of an 18-year-old girl over the course of several hours. [116] He will be eligible for parole in October 2030. [citation needed] Domingo Troitiño 1989 794 years Spain: Perpetrators and instigator (Santi Potros) of the 1987 Hipercor bombing. Josefa Ernaga Rafael Caride Simón 2003 790 years
Kaspar Hauser, Nuremberg, Germany, 16 years. [50]Marvin L. Maple, US, arrested in 2009 for kidnapping his grandchildren, 20 years earlier.; Colleen Stan, US, an American woman who was kidnapped and held captive between 1977 and 1984.
Sentenced to life imprisonment for each murder and preparing for a terrorist act, and an additional 480 years for wounding 40 people. [6] [7] Boitumelo Galubetse 2013 51 life sentences plus 780 years South Africa: Serial rapists who operated a taxi and targeted women alone. [8] Bongani Madlala 49 life sentences plus 780 years Gary Ridgway: 2003