LABOURER DAVID AGER, WHO LOST VISION IN HIS RIGHT EYE WHEN A
NAIL HIT HIM AT WORK, ACCEPTED #35,000 COMPENSATION IN THE HIGH COURT
TODAY.
MR AGER, AGED 35, OF OAKWAY, STIFFORD CLAYS, GRAYS, ES
A GANG OF YOUTHS FLOORED A MAN WHO CARRIED A GUN FOR
PROTECTION AFTER HE OPENED FIRE IN A CROWDED PUB, A JUDGE HEARD
TODAY.
BUT MICHAEL O'DONOVAN, 44, WALKED FREE FROM THE OLD BAILEY
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TEL 01 236 0116
JRB/BM
29 JULY 1988
(HIGH COURT)
LYCEUM 1
THE LEGAL DISP
Criminal Appeal Court, February 18, 1988: Terence Smyth of Newthorpe,
Nottinghamshire, loses appeal against seven-year prison sentence for
kidnapping and indecently assaulting 13-year-old boy.
INSURANCE JUDGE'S MISTAKE
CARDIFF SOUTH WALES ECHO (I)
WESTERN MAIL (I)
SOUTH WALES ARGUS (I)
Y CYMRO (I)
CARDIFF POST (I)
CARDIFF GEM (I)
CARDIFF INDEP (I)
RED DRAGON RADIO C
TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY FUN ENDED IN A HORROR ROAD SMASH WHICH
THE VICTIMS WILL NEVER FORGET.
THE ACCIDENT WRECKED A MAN'S NAVY CAREER AND LEFT A YOUNG
WOMAN WITH A DISFIGURED FACE, LONDON'S HIG
A WOMAN LOST HER HIGH COURT APPEAL ON WEDNESDAY FOR A HOUSING
SUBSIDY WHILE SHE WAS IN JAIL.
THE COURT HEARD MS FIONA ROBERTSON, OF (98A) LANCASTER ROAD,
NOTTING HILL, WAS JAILED ON NOVEMBER
A TEENAGER WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE TORCHED A BLOCK OF FLATS AND
THEN TO HAVE RETURNED TO THE SAME SPOT HOURS LATER AND SET OFF A
SERIOUS GAS SCARE.
ON BOTH OCCASIONS FIRE OFFICERS SPOTTED 17
MILLIONARE LANDLORD NICHOLAS VAN-HOOGSTRATEN CURRENTLY
ON TRIAL ACCUSED OF MAKING LIFE 'A MISERY' FOR HIS TENANTS TODAY
(THURS) LAUNCHED A SCATHING ATTACK ON THEM CLAIMING THEY WERE
OPERATING A
AN UNGRATEFUL NEPHEW SET FIRE TO HIS UNCLE'S FLAT WHILE HE
SLEPT, CAUSING MORE THAN #8,000 DAMAGE, THE OLD BAILEY HEARD.
MR JOHN MELLETT, 54, WAS 'LUCKY TO BE ALIVE' AFTER HIS
NEPHEW A
