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A “personality disorder” caused a 24-year-old to steal nearly $10,000 in jewellery from her grandmother and say it was burgled, a lawyer claimed.
Saul Dismont told Magistrates’ Court Aeisha Place was in need of treatment because of her “antisocial be...
DATE: Oct 22, 2012
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Jonathan Bell
A woman who cried foul after losing her life savings in a house “flipping” scheme sparred in the Supreme Court over her awareness of the risks she was taking.
Lawyer Charles Richardson is defending Cedric Oates, 41, against a charge of making a state...
DATE: Oct 16, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A teacher who said she lost everything in a plan to “flip” US real estate has admitted she’d previously fallen for a pyramid scheme.
Lawyer Charles Richardson suggested in the Supreme Court that Dianne Laird, 45, had a history of making high-risk inv...
DATE: Oct 13, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Canadian teacher who lost her life savings in a real estate scheme secretly recorded the man now accused of duping her out of $345,000.
Former Dellwood teacher Dianne Laird told the Supreme Court she began to panic as Cedric Oates and his US associ...
DATE: Oct 10, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Pembroke man who denied masterminding a plot to smuggle in $3.5 million of cannabis has been jailed for nearly 12 years, after admitting he played a significant role.
Kenneth (KJ) Zuill, 40, of Deepdale, will serve that sentence, in addition to an ...
DATE: Sep 29, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Warwick man who threw bottles at landscaping boss Jefferson Sousa pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to threatening behaviour.
Dimitri Robinson, 33, of Spring Hill, told the court he had struggled with alcoholism for 16 years and wanted help.
He ...
DATE: Sep 24, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A phone shop worker who stole and then sold his company’s products is to be sentenced in Magistrates’ Court.
Jahmarley Gardiner, 25, of Ord Road, Warwick, pleaded guilty to three counts of theft from CellOne.
The court heard that between May 1 and 8,...
DATE: Sep 24, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A man hailed as one of the Island’s promising footballers has been jailed, on a charge of handling nearly $50,000 worth of drugs while working as an airport security officer.
Dandy Town player George Dyer faced a possible ten years’ imprisonment, aft...
DATE: Sep 21, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A prominent local footballer who was working as an airport security officer has been jailed for 18 months on a charge of handling almost $50,000 worth of cannabis.
Dandy Town player George Dyer was caught with the drugs, which he admitted retrieving ...
DATE: Sep 20, 2012
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A Southampton man charged in Magistrates’ Court with causing grievous bodily harm told the court he got into the fight while asleep.
Colin Menzies, 43, of High Point Lane, denied the September 8 charge against Joanne Hassell.
He told Senior Magistrat...
DATE: Sep 11, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
