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Prosecutors failed to win a tougher punishment for Joshua Crockwell, the former firefighter who was spared a jail sentence for molesting a 12-year-old girl.
Chief Justice Ian Kawaley said the 15-month suspended sentence handed to Crockwell, who got t...
DATE: Sep 08, 2012
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Two people were charged yesterday with a plot to import more than 150g of heroin inside a radio.
Shakeda Davis, 28, of School Drive, Devonshire, and Winston Burgess, 48, of Middle Town Drive, Pembroke, were both charged in Magistrates’ Court with con...
DATE: Sep 08, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A child sex victim should have been given a voice during the sentencing of the man who molested her, according to the Chief Justice.
He criticised Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo for failing to take a statement from the 12-year-old girl into account just ...
DATE: Sep 08, 2012
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Two Pembroke teenagers yesterday denied using a false betting slip to get $25,000 from a Hamilton betting shop.
Koshun Lightbourne and Markus Muhammad, of Alexander Road, attempted to obtain the cash from Seahorses on Queen Street, prosecutor Cindy C...
DATE: Sep 07, 2012
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A 25-year-old man caught with 4.63 grams of cannabis, was given a conditional discharge.
Anthony Smith of Spanish Heights, Pembroke, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to possession of the drug.
Prosecutor Nicole Smith said officers discovered he h...
DATE: Sep 06, 2012
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Two men who brutally attacked a Gombey drummer in a city street using a knife and chain have been jailed.
Jamel Richardson and Ridge Mello-Sousa — both 21 — left Kewande Bean with a punctured lung and two stab wounds to his back.
Mr Bean, 28, was rus...
DATE: Sep 06, 2012
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A case in which a pit bull attacked another dog was dismissed in Magistrates’ Court on the grounds that the evidence did not support the charge.
Gina Camara, a Warwick resident, was charged with possession of a pit bull that caused injury to another ...
DATE: Sep 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Two men have denied shooting father-of-one Randy Robinson dead.
Jay Dill, 23, and Devon Hewey, 24, are accused of the premeditated murder of Mr Robinson and using a firearm to commit the crime.
Mr Robinson, 22, was killed on Border Lane North, Devons...
DATE: Sep 05, 2012
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A mother told Magistrates' Court yesterday that she was attacked outside a school after pulling a child out of the way of a moving car.
Verlicher Glasgow, 37, claimed that 31-year-old Kahla Saltus struck her repeatedly in the face during a heated arg...
DATE: Sep 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Warwick handyman was remanded into custody yesterday after he admitted repeatedly striking a woman.
Paul Edness, 52, pleaded guilty to assaulting Denise White, causing her actual bodily harm, but told the court that she had attacked him first, biti...
DATE: Sep 05, 2012
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
