The Crime Ledger: October 3, 2026

Manchester: Two Iranian Men Remanded Over Alleged Synagogue Bomb Plot

Two Iranian nationals stood in the dock at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, a day after counter-terrorism police charged them with engaging in conduct in preparation for terrorist acts. Salam Ahmadyan, 36, of Liverpool, and Rahman Salehi, 34, of Salford, were arrested in Manchester on Sept. 20. They spoke to confirm their names, dates of birth and addresses. District Judge Nina Tempia remanded both men in custody until an Old Bailey hearing on Oct. 23, the Belfast Telegraph reports.

Prosecutor Mark Luckett told the court they’re accused of preparing acts of terrorism against Manchester’s Jewish community “through the use of a homemade explosive device,” and of what the prosecution calls hostile reconnaissance at Heaton Park Synagogue and the Jewish Museum in Cheetham Hill. Prosecutors allege a third party, assessed to be an Iranian national most likely operating from inside Iran, directed the plan and sent instructions for building the device. The Washington Post and the Belfast Telegraph both report that the alleged device was a chlorine bomb.

Two people died in an attack at the same synagogue on Oct. 2, 2025. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans said police don’t believe there’s any ongoing threat to the public. No pleas were reported. Both men are presumed innocent.

Mwea: Detectives Investigate Pregnant Woman’s Death After Police Lift

A lift to the farm ended with a pregnant woman dead on a rural road in Kirinyaga County. Kenya’s National Police Service says detectives are investigating her death in Mwea East on Friday after residents and her husband alleged she was thrown from a moving police vehicle. The husband, Anthony Muturi, survived with injuries. He told reporters the couple had accepted a lift from officers, who then refused to let them out and demanded money, the Daily Nation and The Eastleigh Voice report.

The NPS said her body had visible injuries to the head and hip. The Inspector General has been briefed on “this heinous crime” and has told the Directorate of Criminal Investigations to speed up the inquiry, the service said, and county and regional detectives have joined local investigators. Angry residents shut the Piai-South Ngariama road after the death. Mwea East police commander Henry Gitonga told the Daily Nation that investigations had been launched.

No arrest has been reported, and no officer has been publicly identified.

Mississippi Mills: Two Charged With Murder in Burning-Car Death

Two people from Arnprior, Ont., are charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man whose body was found in a burning vehicle in Mississippi Mills last month. Lanark County OPP say Lindsay Dolan, 37, and Dylan Zoobkoff, 33, also face counts of indignity to a dead body under the Criminal Code. The victim was Colin Campbell, 37, of Mississippi Mills.

Officers and the Mississippi Mills Fire Department were called to a vehicle fire off Ramsay Concession 12 shortly before 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 11, and Campbell’s body was found inside. After a nearly three-week investigation, the pair were arrested in Regina on Wednesday, Sept. 30, with help from the Saskatchewan RCMP and police in Winnipeg and Regina, Inside Ottawa Valley reports.

Both remain in custody and were scheduled to appear in the Ontario Court of Justice in Perth on Friday. The outcome of that appearance hasn’t been reported. The charges haven’t been proven in court, and both are presumed innocent.

Santiago: Ex-Warden Jailed Pending Trial Over 2018 Inmate Death

A former prison warden is now in custody over a death that went unpunished for eight years. Juan Farías Pumero, a former warden of a detention centre in Punta Arenas, was formally charged at a hearing on Friday and ordered held in preventive detention over the January 2018 death of inmate Rodolfo Muñoz Morales inside the Santiago 1 prison. The court found enough evidence to attribute to him participation as a perpetrator in the homicide, Canal 9 and Epicentro Chile report.

Prosecutors allege that fellow prison officer Álex Vega Torres caused Muñoz to strike his head against a pillar, and that Farías was present and didn’t step in, despite his duty to protect the inmate. Muñoz died two days later of a fatal head injury. The case had been closed without charges, but a Santiago court agreed in April to reopen it after new evidence surfaced in Operación Apocalipsis, an investigation into an alleged corruption network inside prisons. No report says Farías faces charges in the corruption inquiry itself.

Farías is presumed innocent.

Euskirchen: Husband Held on Murder Warrant After Wife’s Body Found

A week-long search for a missing mother ended in a forest. The woman, 46, from Euskirchen, had been missing since Friday, Sept. 25. On the late afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 1, while officers were searching a recycling yard in Weilerswist, the Bonn police homicide squad developed new leads and sent officers to a wooded area at Zülpich, where a woman’s body was found and recovered at about 5:35 p.m., police said. An autopsy on Friday confirmed it was her.

Police had searched the Weilerswist yard because her husband said he had taken waste from water damage there. Shortly after the body was found, the 51-year-old husband, against whom police said there was now strong suspicion of a homicide, was arrested in Euskirchen and taken to Bonn police headquarters. On Friday, Oct. 2, Bonn prosecutors brought him before a judge on suspicion of murder for base motives, and the judge issued a pretrial detention warrant. He has said nothing about the allegations in questioning, and the motive is still unclear, dpa reports. The homicide squad is continuing to investigate. German authorities have named neither the woman nor her husband.

He is presumed innocent.

Suleja: Police Set Out Case Against Guard in Girl’s Death

Niger State police issued a fresh account on Friday of an 11-year-old girl’s death in Suleja, and Dateline Nigeria reports that the statement was meant to counter misleading claims circulating on social media. Police spokesman SP Wasiu Abiodun said the girl left home on Sept. 19 for a relative’s birthday celebration and didn’t come back. Her body was later found in a well on the grounds of the Apostolic Church in Suleja.

Godwin Dauda, 26, a security guard at the church, was arrested at about 8 p.m. on Sept. 23 in the Kuje area of the Federal Capital Territory, police said. They say he confessed under interrogation to luring the girl into his security room and sexually assaulting her, that she died, and that he put her body in the well. The Punch and Daily Post report the same account.

Police say the investigation continues. No court appearance has been reported, and Dauda is presumed innocent.

Kayseri: Arrest Three Years After Cemetery Killing of Disabled Man

Fehmi Lup, 34, a man with an intellectual disability, went to visit a cousin’s grave in October 2023 and was later found stabbed to death in Asri Cemetery in Kayseri’s Melikgazi district. The case sat unsolved until a special team from the Kayseri chief prosecutor’s office and police reopened it, working under a Justice Ministry unit for unsolved crimes and going back through camera footage and witness statements.

That led to Mehmet Can Dilekçi, 26, who knew Lup and had talked with him at the cemetery that day, Son Dakika reports. He was detained along with three relatives. A court ordered Dilekçi held in pretrial detention, and the others were released. In his statement, reported by both DHA and Son Dakika, Dilekçi said Lup attacked him with a knife when he wouldn’t hand over a cigarette, and that the blade went into Lup’s heart by accident as they struggled.

Dilekçi is presumed innocent.

Douglas, Ga.: Arrest in 1998 Killing of Christy Myers

Christy Dawn Myers, 20, left her home in Broxton late on Sept. 14, 1998, to go to a store. Not long after midnight she was found with multiple stab wounds beside her car on the Broxton-Fitzgerald Highway in Coffee County, Georgia. On Sept. 15, 1998, the Coffee County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI’s regional office in Douglas to help, and the case went unsolved for nearly 28 years.

On Oct. 1, 2026, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested James Lawrence III, 47, of Irwin County, with help from the Irwin County Sheriff’s Office, and booked him into the Coffee County Jail on charges of felony murder, malice murder and aggravated assault. The GBI says “continued testing” of forensic evidence identified him as a suspect; WJCL reports the evidence included DNA. “Christy Dawn Myers is not forgotten,” her daughter, Chelsea Wolfe, said at the Oct. 2 news conference, WALB reports. The GBI says the investigation remains active and that the file will go to the Waycross Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office for prosecution once it is complete.

Lawrence is presumed innocent.

Haripur: Two Relatives Arrested After Couple Shot Dead

A husband and wife were shot dead at their home in Pipliyala village, in Haripur’s Ghazi tehsil, in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and police say the attackers then set the husband’s body on fire. Police named the couple as Bostan, 56, and his wife, Rifat Sultana, 50, Dawn and The Express Tribune report. Dawn reports that the attackers burst into the house and that the two families were already in litigation over property.

Police arrested two men, Ashfaq and Qamar, who are said to be relatives of the couple, and recovered a shotgun they say was used in the killings, Dawn and Ummat report. Ummat reports that a murder case has been registered at the local police station. Police have not said whether others are being sought, and no court date has been reported. Pakistani police commonly release only one name for suspects and victims, as here.

Both men are presumed innocent.

Alkmaar: Asylum-Centre Stabbing Suspect Held Two More Weeks

The 22-year-old man arrested after the fatal stabbing at about 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the COA asylum seekers’ centre known as Plan Robijn, on Robonsbosweg in Alkmaar, is now suspected of murder or manslaughter, the Public Prosecution Service for North Holland says. An examining magistrate has ordered him held for another 14 days. A 24-year-old man, also a resident of the centre, died at the scene. This case continues from The Crime Ledger: October 1, 2026.

Police say the suspect was arrested shortly after the stabbing, and that he and the victim knew each other and were both registered as living at the centre, NH Nieuws reports. What led to the stabbing is still under investigation. Police and prosecutors are not giving further details, Streekstad Centraal reports. Under Dutch procedure, the 14-day extension can be followed by a hearing before a full chamber of the court on longer pretrial detention.

The suspect has not been named, and he is presumed innocent.

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