Showing posts with label charge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charge. Show all posts

Monday, July 18, 2011

Man on school grounds rape charge

14 July 2011 Last updated at 15:36 GMT Foyle College The alleged attack happened in the grounds of Foyle College on Friday night A 19-year-old man has been charged with raping a teenage girl in Londonderry at the weekend.

The 15-year-old was allegedly attacked in the grounds of Foyle College on the Northland Road on Friday night.

The man has also been charged with aggravated assault and grievous bodily harm with intent.

He will appear before Londonderry Magistrates Court on Friday morning.


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Sunday, July 17, 2011

Tesco manager faces theft charge

14 July 2011 Last updated at 10:42 GMT Tesco store generic Mr Cairnes is accused of stealing from the Tesco store he managed A former manager of a Tesco supermarket in Limavady is to go on trial charged with stealing just over ?35,000 from his employer.

Michael Thomas Cairnes of Mere Road, Blackpool, is alleged to have taken the money from the Main Street, Limavady, store between 6 and 9 August last year.

The 42-year-old defendant faces a further charge of perverting the course of justice with intent.

He is to stand trial at Londonderry Crown Court on 8 September.

At the city's magistrates court on Thursday morning a defence solicitor conceded that his client had a prima facia case to answer.

The defendant was released on his own bail of ?900.


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Saturday, July 9, 2011

Jeans intimidation charge dropped

7 July 2011 Last updated at 11:11 GMT Bishop's Street Court House L'Derry The intimidation charge against Alison Hewitt was withdrawn at Londonderry Magistrates Court A Strabane woman jailed for stealing a ?10 pair of jeans has had a charge of intimidating a prosecution witness withdrawn by the public prosecution service.

Alison Hewitt, from Patterson Park in Strabane, was convicted of stealing the jeans from a clothes shop in Derry last December.

The 28-year-old was jailed for three months.

She was released on appeal after one night in custody.

During her trial, Hewitt was arrested and charged with intimidating a prosecution witness by taking photographs of her car with intent to cause a police investigation to be obstructed or perverted.

Ms. Hewitt's phone was seized by the police after her arrest.

News of the arrest was withheld from the jury in her trial on the instructions of the trial judge.

At Londonderry Magistrate's Court, a prosecution solicitor said the intimidation charge was not being proceeded with and was being formally withdrawn.


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