CRIMINAL APPEAL COURT, JANUARY 14, 1988: MARGARET STRAKER OF BLYTH,
NORTHUMBERLAND, WHO WOUNDED GARY MCGOWAN WITH GLASS AFTER HE WAS IN
FIGHT WITH HER BOYFRIEND, GETS YOUTH CUSTODY SENTENCE CUT FR
A RAPIST WHO TOLD HIS VICTIM HE WAS GLAD SHE WAS NOT ON THE
PILL BECAUSE HE WAS A CATHOLIC, HAS BEEN JAILED FOR SIX YEARS BY
AN OLD BAILEY JUDGE.
FATHER-OF-THREE CLEVELAND HARVEY, 36,
A MOTORCYCLIST WHO KILLED A PEDESTRIAN HE COLLIDED WITH HAS
BEEN CLEARED OF CAUSING DEATH BY RECKLESS DRIVING.
BUT GERALD TASKER, 20 WAS FINED #500 AFTER THE JURY FOUND
HIM GUILTY OF DRIVI
A WOMAN U.S. MARINE CORPS EMPLOYEE WHO FOUGHT FOUR POLICE
OFFICERS AFTER SHE WAS FLUNG OUT OF A LONDON NIGHTSPOT WAS TODAY
(MON) FINED NEARLY #200.
TEXAN MARY BEVERIDGE, A 25 YEAR-OLD ACCO
A STRING OF FAILED ROMANCES FOLLOWED HIS DIVORCE AND LEFT
LABOURER STANLEY BALLANGER CONTEMPLATING SUICIDE, AN INQUEST AT
SOUTHWARK HEARD ON WEDNESDAY.
BALLANGER, 33, DIED OF ACUTE LIVER FAI
CONMAN ANTHONY BERNARD MISSED FREEDOM BY MINUTES.
HE HAD MADE HIS MONEY, HIBAGS WERE PACKED, HE HAD 800 IN
TRAVELLERS CHEQUES AND HE WAS READY TO WALK OUT THE DOOR.
THEN FRAUD SQUAD OFFICER
MILL HILL RESIDENTS WERE FINALLY VICTORIOUS TODAY (FRI) IN
THEIR EFFORT TO STAMP OUT THE EVILS OF DRINK - OR MORE PRECISELY IN
PREVENTING THE GIANT CHARRINGTONS BREWERY FROM BUILDING A PUB IN
TH
A 20 year old Hanwell man who took on a 30,000 pounds mortgage
and a bank loan and then got into financial difficulties, stole
regularly from the Wester Avenue Service Station where he was a part-
THREE ALLEGED FRAUDSTERS USED THE TRADITION OF TRUST AMONG
LLOYDS UNDERWRITERS TO PULL OFF A MULTI-MILLION POUND INSURANCE
SWINDLE, AN OLD BAILEY JURY HEARD ON MONDAY.
COMPANY DIRECTO
A TRAGIC MUM, WHO LEFT HER NEW BORN BABY SON TO DIE, WAS
ALLOWED TO WALK FREE FROM THE OLD BAILEY YEST (FRI).
CATHERINE ROBERTS, 24, WAS TO TERRIFIED TO TELL ANYONE, EVEN
HER BOYFRIEND,
