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(CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT) JANUARY 26, 1988/AVM.
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A MYSTERIOUS CHRISTMAS DAY ACCIDENT LED TO THE DEATH OF A MAN
TWO WEEKS LATER, SOUTHWARK CORONERS COURT HEARD ON THURSDAY.
VINCENT MCMANUS, 38, WAS FOUND DEAD AT HIS BROTHER'S HOME IN
CHALCO
A BRITISH RAIL EMPLOYEE WHO HEAD-BUTTED A COLLEAGUE AT WORK AND
BROKE HIS NOSE WAS FINED #75 BY A JUDGE WHO TOLD HIM HE WENT 'OVER
THE TOP'.
ALSO ORDERING BRITISH RAIL COUPLER GRAHAM TESTER
GLUE-SNIFFER STEPHEN FERDINANDO THOUGHT HE HAD PULLED OFF A
NICE LITTLE LATE NIGHT ROBBERY - UNTIL HE WAS TACKLED BY 60 YEAR
OLD HAVE-A-GO HERO ROBERT MCDONALD.
FERDINANDO, 22, SMASHED HIS WAY
A JURY WHICH SPENT MORE THAN FIVE HOURS DELIBERATING WAS
DISCHARGED WHEN THEY FAILED TO REACH A VERDICT, LEAVING JOHN
LIGHTFOOT FACING A POSSIBLE THIRD RETRIAL.
UNEMPLOYED LIGHTFOOT, 25, OF
A MOTOR CYCLIST WHO HAD HIS RIGHT ARM TORN OFF IN A HORROR ROAD
ACCIDENT WAS AWARDED NEARLY #50,000 IN DAMAGES AT LONDON'S HIGH COURT
ON THURSDAY.
ROBERT CHELLEY WOULD HAVE GOT MORE BUT A JUDG
A TEENAGER INVOLVED IN AN EAST END FAIRGROUND KNIFE FIGHT IN
WHICH A YOUNG MAN WAS TRAGICALLY STABBED TO DEATH WAS GIVEN TWO YEARS
PROBATION AT THE OLD BAILEY.
DELIVERY BOY JASON STEWART, 18
A TRAGIC SCHOOLBOY'S SECRET PASSION FOR INHALING DEODORANT
SPRAYS COST HIM HIS LIFE WHEN HE WAS FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AFTER A
SNIFFING SESSION.
TEENAGER GARY APICELLA WAS RUSHED TO HOSPITAL AFTE
A BOUNCER WHO RAPED A WOMAN TO 'HUMILIATE HER' WAS JAILED FOR
SIX YEARS AT THE OLD BAILEY ON THURSDAY.
THE JURY TOOK FOUR AND A HALF HOURS TO REACH THEIR VERDICT
THEN FOUND HOWARD BROWN,
A BUCKINGHAMSHIRE MANOR HOUSE TODAY FOUND ITSELF AT THE CENTRE
OF ONE MAN'S HIGH COURT BATTLE WITH BUREAUCRACY OVER A COTTAGE BUILT
IN ITS ANCIENT GROUNDS.
BUILT BY THE INFAMOUS JUDGE JEFFRIES,
