Rapper jailed for 23 years after raping, beating and torturing woman with hot iron in three day ordeal

Courtney Hutchinson, known as rapper DVS and 1ARDA on social media, held the 20-year-old in his flat before she managed to escape and flee naked into the street.

The 32-year-old even burnt her with an iron in scenes that mirrored British film The Intent in which he burns a man in a similar way as he is strapped to a table.

He even filmed his real life savage attack on his phone as he forced the woman to beg for her life while he told her to call her mum and say goodbye.

The attack on the victim began on February 5 last year when she drove to a flat Hutchinson used near London’s City Airport, east London.

He immediately began attacking, punching and kicking her.
Afterwards he forced her to eat a meal before going to bed before becoming even angrier then next morning and repeatedly hitting the victim.

He went on to push the legs of a chair into her stomach, drag her around the flat by her hair and whip her repeatedly with a phone charger cable.

Hutchinson pressed a heated iron onto her exposed skin several times before holding it above her face and demanding she burn herself as she pleaded with him to stop.

The force of his attack left the woman with 40 injuries, including a fractured eye socket, broken nose, dislocated shoulder, stab wound to the hand and severe burns.

Hutchinson told the victim that she would die the next day, and then raped her.
On the third day Hutchinson continued his assault, also forcing her into a hot shower and stamping on her burns.

He filmed her, making her state on camera that she was a bad person.

Throughout the entire ordeal he kept her naked until she finally saw an opportunity to escape.

The victim was taken to the Royal London Hospital and continues to receive treatment for the injuries inflicted.


Hutchinson pleaded guilty to rape, false imprisonment and GBH with intent on the second day of his trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court in July.

Yesterday, he was jailed for life and was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Detective Sergeant Jimi Tele, from Newham police, said: ‘I would like to praise the bravery and determination of the victim of this truly harrowing ordeal.

‘Her resoluteness in coming forward and working with the police in securing the imprisonment of a truly dangerous offender is worthy of the highest recognition.

‘Courtney Hutchinson subjected his victim to the most shocking and repeated levels of violence.
‘It was her determination, in company with the skill of the investigation team, that allowed the full severity of the attack to be revealed and that ultimately led to Hutchinson’s arrest and conviction.’

Hutchinson, of Brixton, south London, will also remain on the sex offenders register for life.

Dylann Roof given death sentence for killing nine black church members

During the massacre in 2015, he walked into a Bible study group and sat listening for almost an hour before he took out a hand gun and opened fire, according to metro.co.uk.

He said he acted to try and bring back segregation or start a race war by killing congregation members at the historically black church of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

In his confession to the FBI, he said he felt that he ‘had to do it’. Speaking today, he said ‘I still feel that way.’
Roof, who is white, faced either life in prison or execution for the slayings on June 17, 2015. The same jury which found him guilty was tasked with deciding his sentence, and reached their conclusion after about three hours.

When asked by police why he ‘had to do it’, the killer replied: ‘I had to do it because somebody had to do something.’
He said he ‘was sitting there for 15 minutes’ thinking about whether he should carry out the attack.
‘I knew I could have just walked out because they didn’t say anything to me about the thing on my belt,’ he said in an FBI interview. ‘So I could have walked out, that’s what I was just thinking.
‘Then I just, like, I don”t know just like, I don’t want to say spur of the moment but I just finally decided I had to do it. And that’s pretty much it.’

His legal team said they were sorry that ‘despite our best efforts, the legal proceedings have shed so little light on the reasons for this tragedy,’ a veiled referenced to the mental issues they wanted to present during sentencing.

The juriors’ decision means Roof will be the first American to get the death penalty for federal hate crimes.
He was convicted last month of all 33 federal charges against him.

During sentencing, he represented himself and told jurors he didn’t have a mental illness.
But he didn’t offer any remorse or ask that his life be spared.

After the verdict today, the brother of Cynthia Hurd, one of Roof’s victims, said jurors made the right decision in sentencing him to death.

Malcolm Graham said it ‘sends a strong message’ that hate crimes will not be tolerated.
Graham said there is ‘no room in a civilised society for hatred, racism and discrimination.’

Elderly woman in wheelchair ‘pushed onto train tracks and smashed in the head with a rock’

A man has been held on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman in a wheelchair was ‘pushed onto train tracks and then beaten with a rock’.

CCTV footage from the station in Poland shows the disabled woman, 72, on the platform along with a figure dressed in black.

The film appears to show him push her wheelchair onto the rails, then jump down and start to beat her head with a rock

Other passengers then appear to pull him off her in the incident, which happened in the town of Leszno in south-western Poland.

The woman, whose name has not been released, was on her way to hospital and needed to change trains there during her journey from her home town of Czestochowa.

On the first train, she met a 33-year-old man, who is also unnamed, from the town of Ruda Slaska, and they spent the journey in conversation.

When they arrived at Leszno, he offered to help her catch her next train by pushing her in her wheelchair.
But he is then alleged to have pushed her to the edge of the railway platform and shoved her off, sending her over the edge and onto the tracks below.

The man then jumped down after her, picked up a large stone and started repeatedly hitting her in the head with it.

He had hit her more than a dozen times before witnesses spotted what was happening and ran over to pull the man off the woman and push him to the ground.

An ambulance was called and the woman was taken to hospital where she is being treated for multiple injuries including head wounds and broken ribs.

Police arrested the man and charged him with attempted murder.

He is being examined by psychiatrists to decide whether he is fit to stand trial.

FIFA approves the expansion to 48-team World Cup

The members of FIFA approved a measure on Tuesday that would expand the field of the World Cup from its current 32 teams to 48, a change that will be implemented in 2026.

The new format will see an initial round with 16 groups of three teams, with the top two teams advancing in each, leaving a field of 32.

Beyond concerns about diluting the talent with an expanded field, FIFA must also answer questions about how the extra two games for each team will affect the quality of play in the World Cup, and how wise it is to mess with the proven formula of the most beloved international soccer tournament in the world, according to Fox Sports.

New FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been a proponent of the expanded World Cup, initially proposing a 40-team tournament before eyeing an even larger field.