Tag: prison

The men used the app to coax men into sharing their home addresses so they could barge in and rob them. Last year, four men used Grindr to target gay men to rob them. On Monday, the last two of those men were sentenced to prison time. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Anthony Shelton, 20, and Cameron Ajiduah, 19, were sentenced to 20 and 15 years in prison respectively for charges of home invasion for violently robbing gay men...

Darryl Rowe was found guilty of five counts of GBH and five counts of attempted GBH A hairdresser found guilty of ‘deliberately infecting’ his Grindr dates with HIV was sentenced to life in prison today (18 April). Daryll Rowe, 26, from Edinburgh was guilty of five counts of GBH and five counts of attempted GBH. He infected at least five people after attempting to infect at least 10. Rowe now must spend a minimum of 10 years in prison. Pressured into bareback sex Other victims...

During his trial, Ethan Stables claimed he was bisexual. A British man convicted of planning a terror attack on a gay bar now faces life in prison. Ethan Stables, 20, shared his scheme to attack the New Empire pub in Cumbria last June with members of a white supremacist Facebook group. “There’s a Pride night. I’m going to walk in with a fucking machete and slaughter every single one of them,” he wrote, adding, “I don’t want to live in a gay...

A 27-year-old electrician was arrested after accidentally touching a man's hip in a Dubai bar A Scottish man is freed after being jailed for accidentally touching a man’s hip in Dubai. Jamie Harron, a 27-year-old electrician, was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday (22 October). But then the case against him was dismissed and the charges were dropped. Ruler of Dubai intervened in tourist ‘gay’ case Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum stepped in to personally intervene, and exonerated Harron. Harron had...

Net time you try and slide through a crowded room, make sure that action isn't illegal in the country you're partying in at the time. One poor Scottish man is realizing that you can't maneuver through a pub in the Middle East like you can in the rest of the world. A Scottish man is reportedly facing three years behind bars in Dubai for accidentally touching a man’s hip in a bar. Through a representative for the defendant, 27-year old...

In April, NFL star Aaron Hernandez took his own life while serving a murder sentence in prison. The following month, a Superior Court judge officially dismissed the murder conviction of the former New England Patriots player. Now, according to new reports, tests reveal that Hernandez had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that has been discovered in more than 100 former NFL players. From The New York Times: A lawyer for Hernandez, Jose Baez, in announcing the result at a news...

Three gay men were forced to be prostitutes and porn stars – having sex around the clock and performing on webcam Two Hungarians will spend 30 years in prison each for running a gay sex slave ring in Miami. Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki were convicted of human trafficking, conspiracy and racketeering in a Miami-Dade court. It was found they had kept three Hungarian gay men in their early 20s enslaved as prostitutes, forcing them to have sex with clients and each...

Stonewall has auctioned off a holiday to a country where gay sex is illegal. People who engage in gay sex can also be imprisoned for up to 10 years in the Caribbean island of St Lucia. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office official guidance warns tourists about the country’s anti-gay laws. The US State Department warns: “Consensual same-sex sexual activity is illegal under indecency statues, and some same-sex sexual activity between men is also illegal under anal intercourse laws. Indecency statutes...

Peter Heidgerd was court-martialed in 1989 and felony conviction hurt employment opportunities President Barack Obama has pardoned a Georgia man who spent year in prison for being gay. Peter Heidgerd, now 56, has spent nearly three decades with a felony conviction on his record because he had a gay relationship with a fellow soldier in the US Army. Heidgerd was convicted in 1989 of conduct unbecoming an officer while at Fort Gordon near Augusta. He spent a year behind bars in the...

A man who attacked a gay couple in a New York restaurant has been sentenced to nine years in prison. Bayna Lekheim El-Amin assaulted Ethan Adams and Jonathan Snipes at a Dallas BBQ in the Chelsea area of the city in May 2015. Video footage of the event showed El-Amin using a chair to attack the couple, hitting them over the head and stamping on them, while he called them “faggots”. He was found guilty of second-degree assault and first-degree attempted assault. El-Amin’s defense...

A man has been sentenced to nine years behind bars over a homophobic attack in which he bit off his neighbour’s ear. 21-year-old Ryan Kilgariff carried out the attack on Folkestone man Colin Duncan, his neighbour, on March 9. In the horrific attack, Mr Duncan was kicked and punched, had his ear bitten off, and was beaten with a glass bottle. Mr Duncan was left needing 20 stitches after the attack, while surgeons needed to reattach his ear. According to Kent Online, prosecutors said:...

Michael Johnson, a.k.a. “Tiger Mandingo,” the former college wrestler sentenced to 30 years in prison for “recklessly infecting” multiple partners with HIV, has penned a heartbreaking letter from solitary confinement. Though the black, gay, 24-year-old had an attorney seemingly unfit to defend him, and a jury pool stacked with white, HIV negative heterosexuals who thought being gay was a sin, he was still sentenced to 30 years in prison and will be forced to register as a sex offender upon release. Blogger Michael Petrelis has...

George Klippert was given a life sentence simply for being gay. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intends to posthumously pardon a man who was jailed simply for being gay in the 1960s. George Klippert was the last man in Canada to be convicted of homosexuality before it was legalised in 1969. The mechanic served a four-year sentence for 18 counts of ‘gross indecency’ in Calgary in 1965. He was deemed a ‘dangerous sex offender’ and was sentenced to preventive detention on the grounds...

Are your ready for the next part of the story about gay love in prison? Do you remember first part of it - I fell in love with one of my prisoners? So, let's start now. It was that one day, three weeks ago, when it all began. I heard commotions in one of the bathrooms in sector B and I rushed there to see what was going on. It was Johnsons, cornered by three guys. They immediately calmed down as soon...