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A 40-year-old unemployed man has been jailed for stealing $1,900 worth of tools to buy drugs.
Andrew Arroash, of no fixed abode, admitted in Magistrates’ Court to stealing the equipment from DeCosta Construction on Pitts Bay Road.
Crown counsel Kirst...
DATE: Mar 22, 2011
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
The long-term girlfriend of murder-accused Antonio Myers told police he “got mad quickly” but she never saw him with a gun, Supreme Court heard.
In her witness statement, Candrea Wolffe said she had “never known” her boyfriend-of-eight years to eithe...
DATE: Mar 22, 2011
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A man accused of trying to break into a pay-and-display machine insisted he was carrying a screwdriver as a weapon not as a tool for theft.
Richard DeSilva, 30, admitted possessing an offensive weapon, the screwdriver, and a bladed article, a pair of...
DATE: Mar 21, 2011
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Witness Andrew Laws repeated hearsay to police as he wanted to get his hands on a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the murderers of Kumi Harford, Supreme Court heard.
The 52-year-old father, who lived in a tent on Parsons Road...
DATE: Mar 21, 2011
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A Warwick man who robbed a grieving woman who travelled here to settle her dead brother’s affairs, has managed to escape a prison sentence.
Blair Richardson, 26, made a tearful plea in Magistrates’ Court that he not be sent to jail.
The Smith’s Avenu...
DATE: Mar 21, 2011
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 25-year-old man was yesterday convicted by unanimous verdict of a sex attack on a five-year-old girl.
Merrick Seaman, of Park Hill, Warwick, was found guilty of two counts of sexual exploitation of a young person. He denied the offences and told p...
DATE: Mar 18, 2011
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Murder-accused Antonio Myers discussed how clothing might be disposed of and asked questions about DNA evidence, a witness told Supreme Court.
Andrew Laws said he saw Mr Myers and a friend named “Juggler Jason” in Middletown early on the morning of D...
DATE: Mar 18, 2011
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Murder victim Kumi Harford was a high-ranking member of the 42nd gang and so is his brother Jakai Harford, according to a police expert.
Sergeant Alexander Rollin added that Kumi Harford’s alleged murderer Antonio Myers is high up in rival gang Midd...
DATE: Mar 18, 2011
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Court
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A policewoman sobbed as she described witnessing the aftermath of a fatal shooting, then realising her cousin Kumi Harford was the victim.
Melesia Iris, 27, an authorised firearms officer, was off duty the night Mr Harford, 30, was murdered on St Mon...
DATE: Mar 17, 2011
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Court
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Murder-accused Antonio Myers confessed to the crime to a friend and asked for help to destroy the evidence, Supreme Court heard.
The friend, Edwin Darrell, 55, said Mr Myers later threatened him with a gun and warned him not to inform the police.
Mr...
DATE: Mar 17, 2011
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