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An evil sex attacker, who ripped a career girl apart with
a broken bottle and then tried to burn her to death, was jailed
for 20 years today (Weds.)
The 27-year-old victim watched from the ba

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A local councillor’s career of public service, threatened by
a conviction for assault, was saved by two Appeal Court judges
on Friday.
After hearing that Havering councillor Henry Tebbutt wou

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A company director and his accountant who fiddled more than pnds
stlg 60,000 out of Customs in a cunning VAT fraud each escaped jail
today (Fri) with suspended sentences.
Jurors at Snaresbro

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A cabbie was part of a three-strong armed gang who carried out a
ruthless robbery on what they thought was a drugs den, a court heard
today (Fri).
But of the trio, who fired live ammunition

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A top restaurateur who swindled the Inland Revenue of
pnds 895,000 was jailed for a year at Southwark Crown Court
today Friday.
Stephen Less was told by judge Christopher Hardy:
‘For a period o

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A father-of-one involved with a ruthless Post
Office robbery gang was jailed for four years today Friday.
As John Henry, 27, was led away from the dock at
Southwark Crown Court he shouted to his

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A young Eltham woman who pressed rape charges against her
father curled up into silence when she was called into the witness
box.
And the judge accordingly directed the jury to return
a no

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An Epping man has been cleared of supplying the killer
drug ‘Ecstasy’ to nightclub revellers.
Police arrested John Tomsett, 20, after watching him pass a
small white object to a youth in the que

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A pensioner told police of her terror when she discovered that her
younger lover was an IRA bomber who kept high explosives under their
bed, an Old Bailey jury heard on Wednesday.
Ethel Lamb,

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An East End ‘cowboy’ sparked off a major police operation involving
a crack team of armed officers when he fired shots off his balcony, a
court heard today (Wed).
But Wild West enthusiast Ri

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