AREAS: EALING, ACTON
CENTRAL NEWS, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD BAILEY, LONDON
EC4. TELEPHONE 236 0116.
(HIGH COURT MI/BM).
JANUARY 28 1988.
HOUSE 1
A
AN ELDERLY TECHNICIAN WAS TRAGICALLY BLINDED IN ONE EYE WHEN A
SHARP FRAGMENT OF AN INDUSTRIAL CUTTING MACHINE FLEW INTO HIS FACE
THE HIGH COURT HEARD YESTERDAY, TUESDAY.
THE HORRIFIC ACCIDEN
A LABOURER WAS JAILED FOR THREE YEARS AT THE OLD BAILEY ON
THURSDAY AFTER BREAKING INTO THE FLAT OF A HARLEY STREET RECEPTIONIST
AND THREATENING TO RAPE HER.
IRISHMAN GEORGE HOWARD, 25
A 21-YEAR-OLD ROCHESTER, KENT, MAN WHO STOLE A LAMP-POST WAS
FREED FROM A SIX-MONTH JAIL SENTENCE BY THE CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT IN
LONDON TODAY (TUESDAY).
ANDREW MICHAEL MCKENNA OF CARNATION
A BUSINESS SCHOOL PRINCIPAL AND COMPANY DIRECTOR, TAKEN TO THE
HIGH COURT BY HIS BANK, WAS ORDERED TO REPAY A #10,000 DEBT.
DESPITE COMMENDING THE WAY DAVID FOARD, OF THE WEST LONDON
BUSINESS
A 'COLOURFUL, EXCITABLE' BRISTOL MAN SAID TO HAVE DONE 'A GREAT
DEAL OF GOOD WORK' IN ST. PAULS BLACK COMMUNITY TODAY (THURS) LOST
HIS APPEAL AGAINST A 21-MONTH PRISON SENTENCE.
GILBERT WA
A BATTERSEA MAN HAS HAD A #3OO FINE FOR DRIVING WHILE UNINSURED
CUT TO #1 - BUT HAS LOST HIS APPEAL AGAINST A 12 MONTHS PRISON
SENTENCE FOR OTHER MOTORING OFFENCES.
KEITH LAWRENCE, 3O, OF
A MOTHER PLEADED WITH AN OLD BAILEY JUDGE TO LET HER SON
COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS.
BUT SHE WAS TOLD HE WAS TOO DANGEROUS TO GO ANWHERE NEAR
HER HOME - BECAUSE SHE IS THE WARDEN OF A PEN
TWO JEWELLERS HAVE BEGUN A HIGH COURT BATTLE FOR COMPENSATION
FROM AN INSURANCE BROKER AFTER ARMED ROBBERS ESCAPED WITH NEARLY A
MILLION POUNDS WORTH OF JEWELS AND GEMS.
VICTOR TAN LTD AND ANN
A DRUNKEN VAGRANT SUSPECTED OF RAPE WAS DRAGGED KICKING AND
SCREAMING TO A NORTH LONDON POLICE STATION, TO THE ASTONISHMENT OF
OFFICERS, A COURT HEARD ON THURSDAY.
MISS SUSAN EDWARDS, PROSE
