A RETIRED NOTTINGHAMSHIRE MINER AND CHURCH WORKER WHO COMMITTED
OFFENCES AGAINST FOUR GIRLS AGED 11 AND UNDER HAS HAD HIS TWO YEARS
JAIL SENTENCE CUT TO 15 MONTHS.
WILLIAM GARDNER GOODMAN,
A RAPE TRIAL INVOLVING A 'NAIVE' WALWORTH YOUTH WORKER WAS
DISMISSED AT THE OLD BAILEY AFTER THE VICTIM FAILED TO TURN UP ON
THE SECOND DAY OF HER EVIDENCE.
THE DISTRAUGHT TEENAGER, 17, AT
A MAN ACCUSED OF RAPING A FRIEND, WALKED FREE FROM COURT AFTER
CLAIMING THE INCIDENT NEVER HAPPENED.
SOUTHWARK CROWN COURT HEARD THE 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL WAS ALLEGEDLY
FORCED TO STRIP IN A FREE
TWO ANTIQUE DEALERS WHO BOOSTED THE VALUE OF A 1706 PUNCHBOWL BY
PERSUADING A CRAFTSMAN TO ADD THE HALLMARK OF AN RELATIVELY UNKOWN
CONTEMPORARY SILVERSMITH, WERE FINED #1,000 TODAY (MON).
S
NOTE: WALCOTT, BROWN AND GRAHAM. FOUND GUILTY OF GBH, ROBBERY,
FIREARMS, ATTEMPTED ROBBERY, MALICIOUS WOUNDING. AREAS: BRIXTON,
THORNTON HEATH AND ROTHERHYTHE. SEND TO THE GAY PRESS.
ADDRESS ON
A PUB LANDLORD WON LIBEL DAMAGES TODAY OVER AN ARTICLE WHICH
WRONGLY IMPLIED THAT HE WAS A RACIST WHO HAD THROWN OUT A GROUP OF
BLACK COUNCIL WORKERS FROM HIS PREMISES.
IN FACT LANDLORD JAMES
FOR YEARS A DEVOTED AND LOVING HUSBAND DID ALL HE COULD TO HELP
HIS WIFE TRAGICALLY HOOKED ON ALCOHOL.
BUT DESPITE ALL HIS EFFORTS GERALD FROST NEVER MANAGED TO
STOP HIS WIFE, A THEATRE SI
A YOUNG SOLDIER COLLAPSED AND DIED ON A GRUELLING TEN
MILE MARCH JUST 12 MONTHS AFTER BEING PULLED OUT OF AN
INDENTICAL EXERCISE, AN INQUEST HEARD.
PRIVATE TOM TROTTIER, 22, WHO WAS BASED IN C
A WIFE WITH A TASTE FOR THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE DROVE HER
HUSBAND TO CRIME AND THEN DITCHED HIM, HE CLAIMED THROUGH HIS COUNSEL
AT THE OLD BAILEY.
ROBERT STEWART, AN ARTICLED CLERK WITH A F
A YOUNG WAREHOUSEMAN GOT MORE THAN HE BARGAINED FOR WHEN HE
ENDED UP IN HOSPITAL AFTER PICKING A FIGHT WITH AN OLDER WORKMATE.
A LONG-RUNNING SQUABBLE BETWEEN TWO WORKMATES ENDED WITH 22-
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