CENTRAL NEWS 33 GOODGE STREET LONDON W1 18 AUG 8
CENTRAL NEWS 33 GOODGE STREET LONDON W1
18 AUG 86
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CLERK 1
A PRETTY 21-YEAR-OLD DHSS CLERK WAS HELD UP BY A BAD
TEMPERED JOBLESS MAN FURIOUS THAT HE HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS MONEY, AN
OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD ON MONDAY.
BUT MR TIMOTHY DAVIS, PROSECUTING, SAID THAT BLONDE JOANNE
MOSCROP ‘SHOWED AMAZING PRESENCE OF MIND’ WHEN A GUN WAS POINTED AT
HER AND SHE WAS TOLD: ‘IF I DON’T GET MY MONEY THERE IS GOING TO BE
TROUBLE AND A LOT OF DAMAGE DONE’.
THE COURT HEARD THAT JAMES KEARNEY, 23, ‘HAD AN ULCER AND
WAS NOT IN THE BEST OF MOODS’
BUT MISS MOSCROP CALMLY ASKED KEARNEY TO SIT DOWN AND GIVE
HIS NAME AND ADDRESS.
‘SHE ASKED HIM TO WAIT WHILE SHE MADE
ENQUIRIES WHY HE HAD NOT GOT HIS GIRO CHEQUE’ CONTINUED MR DAVIS.
INSTEAD SHE CALLED THE POLICE WHO QUICKLY ARRIVED AND
ARRESTED KEARNEY AFTER A STRUGGLE.
OFFICERS DISCOVERED THE GUN WAS
A ‘REALISTIC FAKE’
MISS MOSCROP TOLD THE JURY: ‘MY MAIN CONCERN WAS FOR
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WERE WAITING’.
COUNSEL SAID THAT KEARNEY’S MONEY WAS IN FACT IN THE POST
AFTER HE HAD VISITED THE DHSS OFFICE IN ROMFORD ROAD, FOREST GATE,
THE DAY BEFORE.
KEARNEY OF ROMFORD ROAD, FOREST GATE, DENIES BLACKMAIL AND
FIREARMS OFFENCES.
ON JUNE 21 LAST YEAR.
THE TRIAL CONTINUES.
ENDS
