Convicted murderer Troy Shorter was back before the courts last month where he was given a 12-month conditional discharge for common assault.

Shorter, who is on licence after being released from jail, appeared at Magistrates' Court on May 12 in connection with an offence committed on January 29.

It is understood that the incident was a minor domestic matter which involved Shorter pushing and shoving a girlfriend and a male friend of hers.

He was found guilty but Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo gave him a conditional discharge, meaning the common assault conviction will not be recorded if he stays out of trouble for a year.

This newspaper was not in court for the case and the prosecutor, Crown counsel Auralee Cassidy, did not release details, despite several requests. Shorter's defence lawyer Rick Woolridge did not wish to comment.

Shorter was convicted of the July 1986 murder of Hayward's Supermarket worker Roger Redman, who he shot in the back of the head with a handgun during a hold-up.

He was sentenced to death by hanging but this was commuted to life imprisonment in March 1989. He famously sparked a massive manhunt after breaking out of Casemates maximum security prison in July 1991.

It was five months before Police finally caught him when they received a tip-off that he was lurking in the attic of his mother's two-storey home in Pembroke.