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An officer who investigated the crash that took the life of Je-Naya Simmons said he believed the evidence put the teenager in the wrong lane when the collision occurred.
Sergeant Olasunkanmi Akinmola, a police traffic collision expert, said he “stron...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A homeless man believed he could force his departure from a care home if he did “something nasty” to a nurse, a court was told this week.
Magistrates’ Court heard that a nurse, who cannot be named for legal reasons, left the home because of the trau...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A DJ was remanded in custody yesterday after he was accused of harassing and threatening to stab a woman.
Gregory Outerbridge, 40, pleaded not guilty to the use of “menacing” words against Samantha Wainwright through the telephone, namely: “I’m comin...
DATE: Jun 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A witness told the Supreme Court that she saw a silver van turn off its headlights moments before she came across the body of teenager Jen-Naya Simmons.
Juanae Burchall said that while she was in shock trying to help the young woman, she saw the same...
DATE: Jun 17, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A former police officer was given a suspended prison sentence yesterday for a sexual assault on a former colleague
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
The friend of a teenager who died in a traffic collision maintained yesterday that she steered to avoid an oncoming van before she noticed that her friend was missing.
Jada Simmons-Trott said that while she would not have struck the van if she had no...
DATE: Jun 16, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A woman described yesterday how a night out turned to tragedy when her friend was killed in a road traffic collision four years ago.
Jada Simmons-Trott told the Supreme Court that she was travelling in front of 19-year-old Jen-Naya Simmons with Ms Si...
DATE: Jun 15, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A ruling that a warehouse worker was unfairly dismissed two days after his probation period had ended has been overturned.
While the Employment Tribunal found last year that Gorham’s owed David Robinson almost $19,000 for wrongful termination after h...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A pressure group challenging the legitimacy of a committee set up to handle complaints about judges has called on the Governor to convene a “properly constituted tribunal” to hear its grievance.
The Civil Justice Advocacy Group claims Chief Justice N...
DATE: Jun 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A woman accused of breaking Covid-19 quarantine rules had antibodies that she believed were “equal to, if not better than” a vaccine, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
Sophia Cannonier, 52, who took the stand during the second day of her trial, sai...
DATE: Jun 11, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson