Number 8 Jason Alexander Pop music icon Britney Spears
and actor Sam Asghari got married at the former’s hillside mansion in Thousand Oaks, California, on
June the 9th of 2022. Before the ceremony started, during preparations, the artist´s ex-boyfriend,
40-year-old Jason Alexander, showed up uninvited to the event. He filmed himself walking into the
venue, telling workers he was there to crash it. According to security guard Richard Eubler,
Alexander attempted to enter Spears´ bedroom while she was locked inside. Eubler confronted
the man along with another security guard and the three of them got into a physical altercation.
Ventura County Sheriff´s deputies were called to the residence and they took Alexander into
custody upon their arrival. He was charged with misdemeanor trespassing, two misdemeanor counts
of battery and a misdemeanor vandalism charge. At the time, he was also wanted by the authorities on
a felony theft warrant in Napa County. On June the 27th, Alexander had a two-hour preliminary
hearing during which he pleaded not guilty to all of the charges levied against him. A California
judge found there was sufficient evidence for him to go to trial on a felony stalking charge as it
was suspected he’d tried to break into Spears’ home in the days before the wedding as well.
Number 7 Jason Luis Rivera On September the 7th of 2012, an intruder
armed with a pair of scissors was found in the garden of Miley Cyrus’ mansion in Los Angeles,
California. The authorities were alerted after he’d been spotted climbing over the fence of the
artist´s home. When law enforcement made their way to the scene, they drew their guns out and slowly
approached the trespasser, ordering him to step out the gate. The man, identified as 40-year-old
Jason Luis Rivera, claimed he was a friend of Cyrus´ and that she was expecting him. His
statements were immediately contradicted by the fact that the celebrity wasn’t home at the time
of the incident. Rivera was initially reluctant to obey the officers’ commands and only emerged
with his hands up when they threatened to use a Taser on him. He was charged with two misdemeanor
counts of trespassing and one misdemeanor count of resisting arrest. He was ultimately found guilty
and jailed for 18 months. In November of 2012, the singer also obtained a restraining order
against Rivera, stating he had to stay at least 3,000 feet away from her at all times.
Number 6 Diren Dede Diren Dede, a German exchange
student from Hamburg entered a garage in Missoula, Montana, while reportedly looking for alcohol,
on April the 27th of 2014. Dede, who was in his late teens, was studying at Big Sky High School.
He was walking through his host family´s Grant Creek neighborhood, late at night,
before he eventually trespassed in the garage. Dede was then met by 29-year-old Markus Kaarma,
the owner of the property. He’d been alerted of an intruder by the motion sensors he’d installed,
following a string of burglaries to his garage, and confronted the exchange student in the dark.
According to witnesses, he fired four times at Dede with a shotgun, hitting him once in the
arm and again, fatally, in the head. Kaarma was arrested after the killing and, during his ensuing
trial, prosecutors argued he’d deliberately set out to attract and gun down a burglar. The
previous cases of trespassing on his property were reported to have fueled his intentions. In court,
the man apologized for causing Dede’s death while much of his defense relied on the Castle doctrine,
a law enabling homeowners to react with deadly force if they believe an intruder is attempting
to harm them. Kaarma’s girlfriend, who was also a mother to his child, told the court that he’d only
wanted to protect his family and that he’d never intended to kill anyone. Kaarma was, nevertheless,
found guilty of deliberate homicide, in December of 2014. During sentencing, a judge stated that
he’d acted like a “hunter” by purposefully leaving the door to his garage unlocked on
the night and not like a man defending his loved ones. He was sentenced to 70 years in prison,
with a minimum of 20 years served. Number 5 Connor Attridge
On May the 29th of 2022, a few days before the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the gate of the
Royal Mews at the Buckingham Palace was opened for an authorized vehicle. At that moment,
28-year-old Connor Attridge took the opportunity to walk inside, breaching the palace boundary by
9 to 16 feet. He encountered a household staff member who tried telling him to stop. Attridge,
however, refused to turn around and leave. The man, who sported face tattoos of musical notes,
tear drops and the words “truly blessed”, told staff that he wanted to come inside and see the
Queen. He was eventually ushered out of the gate and subsequently arrested for trespassing on a
protected site. Security around Buckingham Palace had been heightened in anticipation
of the upcoming celebrations, marking the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension
to the throne. Attridge’s case was ongoing, as of the latest updates on the matter. There was
some speculation that his intentions might’ve been nefarious but his lawyer argued that the
man suffered from mental health issues and had had "no motive or desire to go further than he did."
Number 4 Cody Devine and Janai Wilson In February of 2014, retired school
teacher Wayne Burgarello walked into what he believed would be his vacant duplex in Reno,
Nevada, which he’d only been using on and off for the previous three years. When the 73-year-old
entered, he saw two intruders, later identified as Cody Devine and Janai Wilson, sleeping on a
makeshift bed on his floor. The duo had allegedly been taking illicit substances while squatting in
the home. Burgarello would later claim that he saw Devine’s arm rise up and thought he was holding a
gun. He then opened fire on the trespassers. The homeowner shot 34-year-old Devine five times,
including once in the head, killing him, and hit Wilson in her leg, arm and stomach, leaving her
with serious injuries. Following the incident, he was charged with attempted murder and had
four alternative charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter
and involuntary manslaughter. During the ensuing trial, prosecutors would maintain that Burgarello
had acted with premeditation and a desire for revenge, in light of the repeated burglaries
that had occurred at the property. They noted that the man treated the trespassers like it was “open
season” and never tried warning or talking to them. Burgarello’s legal representative, arguing
for acquittal under Nevada´s stand-your-ground self-defense law, noted that the trespassers
had been responsible for creating the dangerous situation, adding that Burgarello had reacted to
what he thought was a mortal threat. In May of 2015, after deliberating for six hours,
the jury found the man not guilty of all charges. Had he been convicted, Burgarello would’ve faced
up to life in prison without parole. Number 3 Trespassing at DaBaby’s Home
An unnamed man scaled a wall and jumped over to rapper DaBaby´s property in Troutman,
North Carolina, on April the 13th of 2022. DaBaby, real name Jonathan Kirk,
spotted the intruder near a football field on the compound and opened fire, hitting the man
in his lower extremities. He then called 911 and told the dispatcher that he’d been defending his
property and that he needed medical care for the intruder. The man was taken to a local hospital
and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. The police department in Troutman opened an
investigation into the case. After consulting with the county District Attorney´s Office,
the inquiry was closed with the decision that DaBaby wouldn’t face any criminal charges.
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and reach out to us there. Number 2 Bernard Ovu
35-year-old IT expert Bernard Ovu was returning home from a wedding in Rotherhithe, south-east
London, on January the 22nd of 2017. While walking through Canning Town Underground station,
he strayed into a staff only area. The emergency gates through which he’d passed were then closed
and Ovu remained trapped for close to an hour. He started wandering around confused and in a
reported state of inebriation. CCTV captured him at the top of the staircase leading down to the
DLR platform, at around 2:47 am. Within minutes, Ovu tripped and fell down the concrete stairs,
sustaining fatal head injuries. His lifeless body was discovered at the bottom of a fire escape, six
hours later. Following the accident, Ovu´s mother, Roselyn Aigbibo, sued London Underground Ltd for
over $365,000 in damages, claiming her son´s death had been caused by the company´s negligence. The
suit stated that ensuring safe staffing levels would’ve made Ovu’s presence more obvious,
resulting in him being detected and escorted to the passenger’s area before getting hurt. However,
London Underground denied the allegations, insisting the man was a trespasser at the
time of his death. A High Court eventually ruled against Ovu´s family´s case, concluding
that the 35-year-old was in a restricted area in which the safety of passengers wasn’t the legal
responsibility of station managers. Number 1 Karl Townsend
In October of 2021, Karl Townsend received a notification from his Ring doorbell,
alerting him there had been a break in at his home in Halewood, England. 32-year-old Townsend and
his half-brother Jamie Cunningham, aged 23, armed themselves with knives and rushed to address with
the intention of confronting the intruders. Upon reaching the property, they found three burglars
on the premises. In an alleged attempt to defend himself, Townsend stabbed one of the intruders in
his left eye with such force that a piece of the blade snapped and became embedded into his brain.
A few minutes later, he knifed the man again, in the street, fatally severing his jugular vein.
Townsend claimed that, after inflicting the final wound, he recognized the trespasser as
31-year-old Jordan Brophy, a man whom he’d known since primary school. Townsend and Cunningham were
charged with murder and possession of a bladed article. During a trial at Liverpool Crown Court,
the former maintained that Brophy had lunged at him with a knife, while another one of
the three intruders had pointed a gun at him. Prosecutors described the incident
as a ”brutal and ruthless killing”, claiming Townsend’s motivation had been either revenge
or punishment. They denied the presence of a gun at the scene and argued Brophy was defenseless
when the killing blows were delivered. As of May, 2022, Cunningham was cleared of murder charges but
Townsend was potentially set for a retrial after jurors were unable to reach the same verdict.
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