Yugoslav War crimes court to arraign Mladic on Friday

Judges of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have scheduled Ratko Mladic’s arraignment for Friday, Mladic was earlier extradited from Serbia to the U.N. court. Dutch Judge Alphons Orie signed the order for arraignment on Wednesday, after the former Bosnian Serb military chief spent his first night in an isolation cell. At the hearing which is scheduled for Friday, Mladic will be asked to enter pleas to 11 charges, including genocide, for allegedly masterminding Bosnian Serb atrocities throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian war.

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ARLENE FRASER CASE

The mysterious disappearance of mother- of- two Arlene Fraser in Elgin, Moray has dominated the headlines since 1998.

ARLENE FRASER It was on April 1998 that Arlene Fraser was last seen after which there has been no news of her till date. A case was filed on her missing and Nat Fraser (missing lady’s husband) was held liable for her missing. The investigation authorities believed her to be dead and her husband was charged with the assaulting and attempting to murder his wife. The crimes are said to have taken place in the months before Mrs. Fraser vanished from her home. Later in the year 2000, Nat Fraser was jailed for 18 months for assaulting Arlene, who had been missing. Nat Fraser was again jailed for ARLENE FRASER CASEa term of 12 months after admitting legal aid fraud. Three men were indicted for the murder of Arlene Fraser and the men involved were her estranged husband Nat Fraser, his friend Hector Dick and English businessman Glenn Lucas. They all were charged with the conspiring to murder Mrs.Fraser.  In the year 2003, the trial of three men accused of murdering Arlene Fraser begins. It hears she disappeared on the day she was due to see a solicitor about a divorce. In the same year the charges against two of the three men in Edinburgh hears that the crown would not be proceeding against Hector Dick and Glenn Lucas. The key prosecution witness Hector Dick denies that he killed Arlene Fraser and he tells the court that Nat Fraser had hired a hit man to kill his wife. The husband claims he did not kill his wife rather he loved his wife and he wanted her back. And the jury in the trial of Nat Fraser finds him guilty of murdering his wife, who went missing almost 5 yrs ago. By the end of the same year Nat Fraser lodges an appeal against his conviction for murdering his wife.

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