crime

Dutchman Joran Van der Sloot, wanted for questioning in Thailand for suspected sex trafficking, was sentenced to 28 years in a Peruvian prison on Friday for the murder of a young woman he met at a casino in Lima, prosecutors said.

A man arrested this week in North Carolina may have stashed a .38 barrel revolver in his rectum, according to police, who reported that the unloaded 10-inch weapon was not discovered until after the suspect had been booked into a cell in the county jail.

A smuggler with a truck-load of more than 800 dogs was arrested by Thailand authorities from the banks of the Mekong River in the north eastern Nakhon Phanom province, it has been reported.

Five rubber farmers and one policeman were wounded when a man fired a gun at rubber farmers who had blockaded the main road in protest against falling rubber prices in Rattaphum district yesterday.

A man, believed to be from Bath, is being held in Thailand on suspicion of drugs offences.