Central News, Press Room, Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey, London
EC4. Tel: 01 236 0116/5777
March 18, 1988
Southwark Crown Court/CL/CG
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A CONFUSED 86-YEAR-OLD WOMAN DIED IN A SMOKE FILLED ROOM
AFTER A CANDLE SET HER FOAM-FILLED ARMCHAIRS ALIGHT, AN INQUEST HEARD
TODAY (TUES).
MAY JOHNSON HAD USED CANDLES AND NOT ELECTRICI
NONE TO INVOICE
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CENTRAL NEWS, PRESS ROOM, CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT, OLD BAILEY,
LONDON, EC4 TEL 236 0116
(INNER LONDON CROWN COURT)
29 NOVEM
A JILTED FORMER BOYFRIEND TRIED TO GET HIS REVENGE ON A PUB
MANAGERESS BY POURING SURGICAL SPIRIT THROUGH THE LETTER BOX AND
SETTING LIGHT TO IT.
SPURNED JOHN TAYLOR, A BAR CELLARMAN, COULD
B: 'When you said 'stop it', what stage were you at? When he was trying to enter your rear?
V: He held onto my wrists and slapped me on the sided of my face.
It made my face feel numb
B:How did
A TRACTOR DRIVER WHOSE VEHICLE CAREERED DOWN A HILL INTO A SEVEN
FOOT FENCE IS SUING HIS EMPLOYERS - THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON
- FOR ALLEGED NEGLIGENCE.
PAUL HAROLD UFFINDELL, 53, OF (173)
A YOUNG MAN ACCUSED OF A BETTING SHOP ROBBERY WAS CLEARED BECAUSE
NONE OF THE WITNESSES HAD MENTIONED HIS GINGER HAIR.
STAFF AT BOOKMAKERS WILLIAM HILL, IN THE MINORIES, CITY OF LONDON
WERE
A LONDON 'STANDARD' REPORTER TODAY TOLD HOW HIS PAPER EMBARKED
ON A CAMPAIGN TO TRACK DOWN THE GUILTY POLICEMEN WHO SAVAGELY
BEAT UP THE 'HOLLOWAY FIVE'.
BUT THE STANDARD'S ATTEMPT TO PIERC
A FATHER WAS JAILED FOR 12 MONTHS TODAY FOR REFUSING TO
DISCLOSE THE WHEREABOUTS OF HIS MISSING FOUR-YEAR-OLD SON.
TERRANCE PENFOLD, AGED 29, SNATCHED THE TODDLER FROM HIS WIFE
IN THE STREET A
A SELF EMPLOYED CARPENTER DIED OF CANCER TRIGGERED BY
EXPOSURE TO ASBESTOS A CORONERS JURY DECIDED ON WEDNESDAY.
RONALD BURDEN, 63, WHO LIVED AT FANTHORPE STREET, PUTNEY, HAD
SPENT ALL HIS
