A man who was shot by police while he was brandishing two knives has failed to have his sentence reduced. Noel Quigley, 46, of Celandine Court, Londonderry, admitted attempted grievous bodily harm with intent and a further charge of assault occasioning actual bodily harm in April 2021.

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and killed a bus attendant trying to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to a Japanese official.

A Chinese man who attacked a Japanese mother and child with a knife and killed a Chinese woman who tried to protect them has been sentenced to death, according to the Japanese government. A Chinese court said that Zhou Jiasheng,