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Daily Mail
08-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Former Gold Coast councillor to stand trial for his stepfather's murder
A former councillor will stand trial for the alleged murder of his stepfather as a court heard Google searches made on his phone will form part of the evidence. Ryan Bayldon-Lumsden, 32, is accused of murdering Robert Lumsden, 58, at his family's Gold Coast home in Arundel on August 23, 2023. Bayldon-Lumsden was serving as the division seven councillor for the Gold Coast City Council for the Liberal-National Party at the time of his arrest. He voluntarily stepped down from the position about a week later. Prosecutor Nicole Jackson laid out the Crown's case against the former politician during a committal hearing at the Southport Magistrates Court on Tuesday. She said police would allege the defendant put his stepfather in a 'chokehold' following a verbal and physical argument, the ABC reported. The court also heard Bayldon-Lumsden admitted to strangling his stepfather in the kitchen of their Arundel home during a police interview. Defence barrister Craig Eberhard said Bayldon-Lumsden had been subject to an abusive and controlling relationship with his stepfather. Mr Eberhard told the court Mr Lumsden had pushed his stepson, who pushed him back, causing the older man to fall backwards. The barrister said Bayldon-Lumsden then put his stepfather in a chokehold during a struggle on the kitchen floor. A forensic pathologist told the court Mr Lumsden was 'morbidly obese' and suffered heart issues. Mr Eberhard said the 'million-dollar question' was whether Mr Lumsden had a heart attack and whether it would have occurred regardless of the altercation. Digital forensic analyst Senior Constable Alastair Smith told the court police had accessed internet browsing data on Bayldon-Lumsden's phone. Among the results were searches relating to 'escaping domestic violence and coercive control' and 'coercive control and the rights of women', which were made the day prior to the alleged murder, the ABC reported. The homepage of the domestic violence support service White Ribbon had also been visited on the same day, Mr Smith told the court. Separate analysis of Mr Lumsden's phone found his stepson's contact had been saved under the name: 'c**k gobbler', Mr Smith said. He said his wife's contact, Bayldon-Lumsden's mother, was saved as 'Grumpy'. Magistrate Lisa O'Neill committed the former politician to stand trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court at a date to be determined. Asked whether he had anything to say to the charge, the accused said: 'Not guilty'. Bayldon-Lumsden launched a controversial bid for re-election as an independent ahead of the 2024 Gold Coast City Council election. At the time, state MP Sam O'Connor described the bid as 'completely irresponsible', telling AAP he would likely be suspended if he was re-elected. He was ultimately unsuccessful, placing third on first preferences with 21.72 per cent of the vote in the seat he had resoundingly won four years earlier.
CNA
26-06-2025
- CNA
Man who put Grab driver in a chokehold after argument about vomit in car given jail
SINGAPORE: A man who got into a scuffle with his Grab driver after traces of his vomit were found in the car put the driver in a chokehold. Ashton Jude Joseph, 34, was handed five weeks' jail on Thursday (Jun 26) after he pleaded guilty to one count of causing hurt to the driver, 46-year-old Lee Chee Wei. Joseph, a Singaporean, was a regular serviceman in the Singapore Armed Forces holding the rank of Captain at the time of the offences. His lawyer told the court that he intends to appeal the sentence. According to court documents, Joseph met a group of friends at a bar near Serangoon Road at about 7pm on Aug 30 last year. He drank about six or seven pints of beer through the night. At about 3am the next day, a Grab booking was made to send Joseph home, and Mr Lee was the assigned driver. Mr Lee noticed that Joseph, who sat in the backseat, was drunk. While on the way home, Joseph felt nauseated and asked Mr Lee for a plastic bag. Mr Lee handed over a plastic bag, which Joseph then vomited into. The driver offered to stop the car at the roadside for Joseph to finish vomiting, but the latter declined the suggestion. At about 3.30am, the car arrived at the destination and Joseph alighted. Mr Lee also alighted to check if there was vomit in his car and noticed traces on the seats and carpets. Upset, Mr Lee removed the carpets and started to scold Joseph, triggering an argument over the next few minutes. As Mr Lee returned to his car and reached for the backseat, Joseph grabbed the back of his neck, prompting the victim to shout for help. Joseph then put Mr Lee in a chokehold. He stopped as a van arrived at the scene a while later, and walked away. Two witnesses who alighted from the van chased Joseph, who started to run but tripped and fell, injuring his nose. Both witnesses and Joseph then returned to the car. The altercation was captured by two PolCams near the scene. Mr Lee felt pain in his neck due to the incident and called the police at about 3.40am. The authorities arrived a short while later and arrested Joseph. His blood sample was found to contain 124 milligrams of ethanol in 100ml of blood. Joseph has since offered S$500 (US$392) as compensation and a written apology to Mr Lee. The prosecution sought five to six weeks' jail. Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicole Tay said Joseph's reaction, although not entirely unprovoked, was disproportionate. Ms Tay pointed out that Joseph had been convicted on one count of drink driving in 2016, among other charges. District Judge Kamala Ponnampalam found that a jail term was warranted in this case and sentenced Joseph accordingly.
Daily Mail
19-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Shocking moment Spanish cop chokes 'thief' to death after he 'stole his phone' - as members of the public plead with the officer to stop
This is the horrific moment an off-duty Spanish cop choked a suspected phone thief to death in front of passersby as they pleaded with him to 'let him breathe'. The unnamed 58-year-old policeman was out for dinner with a friend on Tuesday in the Spanish town of Torrejon de Ardoz in northeastern Madrid when a man allegedly stole his phone and ran off. The alleged thief was chased by the cop, who slammed him to the ground and held him in a neck restraint. A disturbing video shows the police officer lying on the ground as he holds the man in a deadly chokehold. 'Call the police', the cop calls out to onlookers as his victim lies motionlessly on the pavement. Neighbours are heard pleading with him to let go of the man, telling him: '[The police] are nearly let him breathe'. But he ignores them and continues to press into the man's neck. 'Sir, please get off him. The police will be here let him breathe a little bit', a man off-camera says. The policeman's friend, also understood to be an off-duty officer, is seen crouching on the ground as a passerby kicks him. Police arrive at the scene, and the video cuts out. The suspected phone snatcher, a 35-year-old man of Moroccan origin, was unresponsive by the time officers arrived at the scene and soon went into cardiac arrest. Despite efforts from paramedics to save him, he was pronounced dead at the scene. First responders said he died by strangulation, but an autopsy will be carried out to determine his cause of death. The unnamed cop was arrested and interviewed by authorities. He is set to appear in court on Thursday. The two off-duty cops are understood to have been drinking. A judge investigating the case has requested that the detained police officer be given a breathalyser test. Sources close to the investigation say the victim had recently been released from prison, Spanish newspaper El Pais reports. The shocking incident has sparked outrage in Spain, with politicians condemning the treatment of the suspected thief and demanding an immediate investigation. 'Two police officers, who were apparently under the influence of alcohol, have murdered a person in Torrejón. This reflects how institutional racism and abuse of power are normalized, even outside of working hours,' a spokesperson for political party Más Madrid spokesperson said in Congress. 'We demand an immediate investigation into this alleged murder due to asphyxiation caused by a police officer in Torrejón', Más Madrid added in a social media post. The clip, which has gone viral on social media, has also prompted horrified responses from Spanish internet users. 'Murdering a person for a simple phone. An off-duty municipal police officer suffocates a is how the capitalist world is, a telephone is worth more than a person's life. What a disgusting society!', one X user wrote. Another user likened the strangling of the man in Madrid to the brutal killing of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in 2020. ''I can't breathe.' These were the words George Floyd uttered minutes before his death when a New York police officer killed him by asphyxiation. The same incident was repeated today in Madrid', an X user wrote on the social platform. Floyd was killed on May 2025, 2020, in a brutal act of police brutality when cop Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nine minutes. His killing cued widespread protests in the US and propelled the Black Lives Matter movement to the forefront of American politics. The death of a man at the hands of police in Spain comes years after M adrid was rocked by violent riots when a Senegalese street vendor died while being chased by cops in 2018 Mame Mbaye Ndiaye, 35, had been selling his wares on the central Puerta del Sol square, which attracts scores of tourists daily, when police intervened. Fellow vendors said police chased him through the streets, forcing him to run with his heavy merchandise wrapped in a sheet. He went into cardiac arrest and died in a street close to his home in the Madrid neighbourhood of Lavapies some 15 to 20 minutes later. When Mr Ndiaye suffered the cardiac arrest, he was with a friend who called the police. Several officers arrived and tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him. His death sparked outrage in the Spanish capital, resulting in violent clashes between police and protestors.
South China Morning Post
11-06-2025
- South China Morning Post
Struggling Hong Kong taxi driver ‘accidentally' put into chokehold, inquest told
A Hong Kong police officer seen putting a taxi driver who later died into a chokehold has told an inquest that he came into contact with the man's neck 'accidentally' during a struggle. Advertisement Constable Lam Wai-wing was part of a police team handling a report made by taxi driver Chan Fai-wong on November 11, 2012, and his subsequent arrest for assault. Lam told the Coroner's Court on Wednesday that his initial attempt to move Chan into a police vehicle was unsuccessful, with surveillance footage showing him locking the taxi driver by the neck. The court is re-examining the death of Chan, 65, in December 2012, a month after his arrest. He died from complications from a cervical dislocation. Chan, who was taking a Japanese couple from West Kowloon to Hong Kong Island on November 11, 2012, parked his taxi near the administration building of the Western Harbour Tunnel due to a dispute with the male passenger at the toll booth. Chan made a report to police. Advertisement Lam said he had physical contact with Chan out of a responsibility to control an arrested person, describing the driver as emotionally agitated, uncooperative and putting up 'defensive resistance' when officers tried to put him into a police car for further questioning at a police station.
Daily Mail
29-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Daily Mail
Subway vigilante flaunts new sporty boho look after criminal trial that divided America
Daniel Penny was first introduced to the world as the hoodie-wearing subway passenger whose chokehold led to the death of Jordan Neely. More than a year later, he was led from court fresh from his acquittal over the homeless man's death sporting a sharp suit and tie.
