3 men sentenced for Indian-origin jeweller's murder in UK’S Leicester US cop wrongly walks into home she thinks is hers... kills ‘black man’

LONDON: Three men found guilty of kidnapping and ruthlessly killing a 74-year-old Indian-origin jeweller in a botched robbery in UK'S Leicester city was Monday sentenced to long prison terms.

Ramniklal Jogiya was bundled into a van and tortured in a plot to steal almost 200,000 pounds worth of gold jewellery in January this year.

Thomas Jervis, 24, and Charles Mcauley, 20, were convicted of murder and given life sentences with minimum terms of 33 and 30 years respectively after being found guilty of his murder.

Callan Reeve, 20, was convicted of manslaughter and jailed for 16 years, the BBC reported.

The trio's trial at Birmingham Crown Court heard Jogiya was bundled into a van while walking home on January 24 after locking up his shop.

The gang had hoped to access the safe but were left empty-handed because of a time delay feature which meant it could not be opened for 12 hours.

Jogiya was probably still alive when the men dumped him from the van near an isolated location near Leicester Airport, the jury heard.

He could not call anyone for help as the gang had thrown away his phone.

Jailing the men, Justice Martin Spencer said: "One can only imagine the terror that poor man went through in the back of the van as the information required was tortured out of him.

"He was then dumped by the side of the road in the Leicestershire countryside and left to die.

"This was a cowardly, cruel and callous crime committed by men motivated by greed and selfinterest with no respect for human life."

Jogiya was beaten to the head, causing a bleed on the brain and traumatic brain injury during the kidnapping.

The grandfather was handled with such force that one of his biceps was ripped away from the bone, six of his ribs on the left side were broken and he had multiple injuries to his hands and fingers. CHICAGO, US: A white Texas police officer who entered an apartment mistaking it for her own and shot dead the black man who lived there was arrested on manslaughter charges.

Officer Amber Guyger with the Dallas Police Department was arrested Sunday and booked into the county jail, the Texas Department of Public Safety said.

At the end of her shift and still in uniform, Guyger entered the apartment in a complex near downtown Dallas late Thursday and shot a man who she thought was an intruder, police said.

Minutes after shooting she called emergency services and told responding officers that she thought she had entered her own apartment.

The victim, an Africanamerican, was identified as Botham Shem Jean, 26, an immigrant from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia.

Jean had graduated from a private Christian college in the state of Arkansas in 2016 and had since been working at the accounting firm Pricewaterhousecoopers in Dallas. Wrong Floor, Open Door According to the Dallas Morning News, Guyger got off on the wrong floor of the building complex and approached an apartment exactly one floor above her own.

The door was unlocked and the lights were off and when Guyger saw a figure moving in the dark she pulled out her pistol and opened fire thinking it was an intruder, the newspaper reported.

Dallas police said that Guyger, 30, has been with the department for four years. Local reports said she was involved in an earlier shooting in May 2017.

The Dallas-fort Worth NBC affiliate reported that Guyger was released late Sunday on a $300,000 bail.

Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall took the unusual step of handing the case over to the Texas Rangers -- a division of the Department of Public Safety -- to "eliminate the appearance of any potential bias", police said in a statement.

"On behalf of the Dallas Police Department, we are continuing to pray for Mr. Jean's family, and ask that the community remain patient as this investigation is conducted," Hall said.

Hall, who is Africanamerican, became the city's first female police chief in September Jean's mother Allison Jean, earlier told NBC News that the incident "feels like a nightmare".