Related Research Articles
Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted criminals are to remain in prison for the rest of their lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or commuted to a fixed term. Crimes that warrant life imprisonment are usually violent and/or dangerous. Examples of crimes that result in life sentences are murder, torture, terrorism, child abuse resulting in death, rape, espionage, treason, drug trafficking, drug possession, human trafficking, severe fraud and financial crimes, aggravated criminal damage, arson, kidnapping, burglary, and robbery, piracy, aircraft hijacking, and genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, severe cases of child pornography, or any three felonies in case of three-strikes law.
The National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime is Norway's central unit for fighting economic and environmental crimes. The unit, created in 1989, has its main office in Oslo.
Capital punishment in Singapore is a legal punishment. Executions in Singapore are carried out by long drop hanging, and they usually take place at dawn. Thirty-three offences—including murder, drug trafficking, terrorism, use of firearms and kidnapping—warrant the death penalty under Singapore law.
The judiciary of Norway is hierarchical with the Supreme Court at the apex. The conciliation boards only hear certain types of civil cases. The district courts are deemed to be the first instance of the Courts of Justice. Jury (high) courts are the second instance, and the Supreme Court is the third instance.
Choo Han Teck is a Singaporean judge of the Supreme Court. He was formerly a lawyer before his appointment to the court as a judge. It was revealed in 2021 that Choo was one of the defence lawyers representing Adrian Lim, the infamous Toa Payoh child killer who was executed in 1988 for charges of murdering a girl and boy as ritual sacrifices. In 1994, Choo also defended Phua Soy Boon, a jobless Singaporean who was hanged in 1995 for killing a moneylender.
T5PC was a controversial Norwegian Multi-level marketing company that went bankrupt in November 2004.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the highest ordinary court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established on 3 July 2002 by the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina with the Law on the Court of BiH, promulgated on 12 November 2000 by the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nola Blake is an Australian woman who in 1987 was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for drug trafficking and subsequently sentenced to death. Her sentence was later commuted to life in prison. Blake resided in Botany, New South Wales and was aged 35 when she was arrested.
Wenche Skjæggestad is a Norwegian judge.
Roger Andresen is a Norwegian police officer who has been the deputy police chief and leader of the public order department of Oslo Police District since 1995.
Philip Holst-Cappelen was a Norwegian convicted serial fraudster and kidnapper who had received significant media attention in Scandinavia. In 2000, he was placed on an Interpol red notice, and after one year he was arrested at Copenhagen Airport. He was convicted of 120 crimes and sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment in 2002. Holst-Cappelen escaped from prison while serving his sentence at Bastøy Prison. In 2008 he was arrested again by armed police in Oslo, after having defrauded Norwegian billionaire Jan Haudemann-Andersen.
The Orderud case was a triple murder that occurred in Norway on 22 May 1999. The victims were 47-year-old Anne Orderud Paust; her mother, 84-year-old Marie Orderud; and her father, 81-year-old Kristian Orderud, who were found shot and killed at their country estate in Sørum, Akershus.
The 2010 Norway terror plot was a Norway-based plan to bomb the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and to kill the cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. Two men with links to Al-Qaeda were convicted for the plot, while a third person was acquitted for terror charges.
Statspolitiet was from 1941 to 1945 a National Socialist armed police force that consisted of Norwegian officials after Nazi German pattern. It operated independently of the ordinary Norwegian police. The force was established on 1 June 1941 during the German occupation of Norway. The initiative for the force came from the later chief Karl Marthinsen and other prominent members of the collaborationist party Nasjonal Samling. At its peak, in 1944 there were 350 employees in Statspolitiet, in addition to a larger number who collaborated or rendered services for them.
On 4 June 1997, a bomb exploded outside the headquarters of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club chapter in Drammen, Norway, killing a passerby and injuring twenty-two others. Seven men associated with the rival Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were convicted of carrying out the attack.
On 10 March 1996, six members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club ambushed four rival Bandidos Motorcycle Club members outside Copenhagen Airport, killing one man and wounding three others with gunfire. A twin attack was also carried out at Oslo Airport, Fornebu in Norway within an hour of the Denmark shooting, leaving one man injured. The incident occurred during the Nordic Biker War (1994–97).
Julio Petter Kopseng, also known as Julio Gonzales, is a Colombian-born Norwegian former dancer and convicted serial rapist, sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for raping 18 women, as well as abusing and attempting to rape a former cohabitant. His sentence is the harshest penalty ever given for a rape case in the country.
Lars Harnes is a Norwegian outlaw biker and gangster who served as the national president of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club in Norway.
Life imprisonment is a legal penalty in Singapore. This sentence is applicable for more than forty offences under Singapore law, such as culpable homicide not amounting to murder, attempted murder, kidnapping by ransom, criminal breach of trust by a public servant, voluntarily causing grievous hurt with dangerous weapons, and trafficking of firearms, in addition to caning or a fine for certain offences that warrant life imprisonment.
References
- ↑ "Why Norway's maximum sentence is just 21 years". The Local Norway. 2012-08-24. Retrieved 2022-06-09.
- ↑ https://www.nettavisen.no/nyheter/eirik-jensen-vil-forlenge-soningsavbruddet/s/5-95-1318772. Nettavisen.no. Retrieved 2023-09-09
- ↑ https://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/zE9QPr/eirik-jensens-kjaereste-han-har-hatt-det-grusomt-i-fengsel. Retrieved 2023-03-13
- 1 2 Norway jails top policeman for smuggling hashish, BBC
- ↑ "Saken endelig avgjort: Høyesterett behandler ikke Eirik Jensens anke". 10 November 2020.
- ↑ "DN Nyhetsstudio". 28 September 2020.
- ↑ "- Ufattelig tungt". 10 November 2020.
- ↑ Eirik Jensen fikk 21 års fengsel av tingretten, Aftenposten
- ↑ Jensen-rettssaken, Verdens Gang
- ↑ Norwegian ex-cop sentenced to 21 years for drug smuggling, The Local
- ↑ Norwegian Policeman Jailed for 21 Years in Drugs Case, US News & World Report
- ↑ Eirik Jensen dømt til 21 års fengsel
- ↑ Bokanmeldelse: Eirik Jensen og Thomas Winje Øijord: «Attentatet», Verdens Gang
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Other | |
