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Simmering tension between black cabs and minicabs erupted in
violence when a cabbie had his teeth punched out by a rival,
the Old Bailey heard today Tuesday.
Black cab driver Guy Smith, 60, wa

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A sobbing mother was jailed for 18 months for turning
to deception when she could not afford to feed her children.
June Weatherman, 28, bought stolen cheque books,
cheque cards a

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An innocent man was kicked, stamped and beaten in the back of a
police van while being racially abused, the Old Bailey heard on Monday.
Harold Benn, 25, emerged from the short journey so b

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The wealthy drug-taking ‘psychotic’ nephew of Sir Simon
Hornby – the chairman of W. H. Smith and Son – pulled an
imitation gun on a terrified London policeman who expected
to be shot.
Twenty

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A multiple sclerosis sufferer was raped twice while powerless
to fight off her attacker, the Old Bailey heard today Tuesday.
The 30-year-old mother of three did not have the strength in
her ar

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Former professional criminal Michael Blackmore – found shot
dead in Amsterdam four months ago – was the victim of drug
gangsters, an inquest was told today Thursday.
And his killing is probabl

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A man accused of raping his wife while she convalesced from
injuries suffered during childbirth was today Friday cleared
by an Old Bailey jury.
The 21-year-old man maintained his wife had full

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A debt-ridden secretary for NALGO killed herself after audi
tors began investigating suspicious financial deals at her work,
an inquest heard.
Lynda Johnstone, 33, from Ayr, Strathclyde, die

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A violent boyfriend who subjected his lover to two ‘dreadful’
knife attacks was jailed for two and a half years on Thursday.
Tina McGraw, 30, decided not to go to police after the first
incide

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A fireman came within a centimetre of death when a deranged
vagrant brutally stabbed him in an utterly motiveless street
attack, the Old Bailey heard.
Without any warning, Malcolm Swann

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