A CAMBORNE teenager has admitted injuring a man with intent to do him serious harm.Appearing at Truro Crown Court on Friday, Curtis Williams, 18, of Weath Lane, pleaded guilty to having caused Mark Steel grievous bodily harm with intent to do him grievous bodily harm, on August 25, last year.Williams was granted unconditional bail and his case was adjourned for sentence to February 7.
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CAMBORNEGBH admitted
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BBC DJ Zapp to face trial on sexual assault charge
A DJ who presents a weekly show on BBC Radio Cornwall will stand trial accused of sexually assaulting a woman.Freddy Zapp, 62, of Dopps Terrace, Redruth appeared at Truro Crown Court charged with sexually assaulting an adult female, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and of assaulting her by beating on November 28.Zapp spoke in court only to confirm his name and to enter pleas of not guilty to both counts.Zapp's bail was granted on the condition that he does not contact the alleged victim...
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CAMBORNENot guilty plea
JAMIE MICHAEL JENKIN, 21, of Pendarves Street, Camborne, denied assaulting Letishia Wills on Christmas Eve at Penzance when he appeared before Truro magistrates and his case was adjourned until March 12 for a trial.
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CAMBORNETo stand trial
CRAIG BRYANT, 22, of Pengwarras Road, Camborne, entered no plea at Truro Magistrates' Court to a charge of assaulting Samuel Newton, causing him actual bodily harm, and is due to appear at Truro Crown Court on February 11.
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KEHELLENDSolar farm plans
PLANS to install 98 solar panels on a farm near Kehellend are being considered by Cornwall Council.The development of a 24.5kW ground-mounted solar panel array could be built on land at Higher Kehellend Farm. A decision is expected to be given by February 7.
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FALMOUTHTrial date set
A FALMOUTH sports therapist is set to stand trial accused of sexually assaulting three of his clients.Clifford Pill, 66, of Oakland Park, who denies assaulting the women between January 1 and December 31 last year, appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday. Pill was granted unconditional bail. His four-day trial is due to start on July 21.
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Admitted stealing from store
A WOMAN who went into Tesco at Pool intending to window shop had only £12 on her when she gave in to temptation and stole goods worth £215, Truro magistrates heard.Claudette Olney, 40, of Mount Pleasant, Alverton, Penzance, pleaded guilty to stealing from Tesco, and also from Boots in Falmouth, when she took goods worth £150.Alison May, for the prosecution, said that, when Olney was interviewed, she said she had gone to Tesco intending to go window shopping for Christmas...
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Assault case adjourned
NICHOLAS DAVID PEARCE, 40, of Victoria Place, St Ives, appeared before Truro magistrates when he denied a charge of assaulting David Pearce, aged 73, at St Ives, on Christmas Day.His case was adjourned for trial at Truro Magistrates' Court on March 10.
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Launceston teenager Ruby Griffiths hit her former partner with a...
A TEENAGE mother from Launceston hit the father of her child over the head with a bottle twice on a night out.
Ruby Griffiths, 18, Serpells Meadow, Polyphant, attacked her former partner Craig Charnock on November 30, causing a cut to his eyebrow, which needed to be glued at Launceston Medical Centre.
At Truro Crown Court on Tuesday, Sally Daulton, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said they had been in a relationship until April 2013 and that there had been an on-going dispute between them...
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10 teachers in Cornwall suspended for alleged improper relationsh...
There have been 10 teachers in Cornwall suspended from schools for alleged improper relationships with pupils in the last three years.
The improper relationships all involved alleged sexual contact or behaviour between a teacher and a pupil.
Devon and Cornwall Police carried out investigations into all of the cases.
Figures released by Cornwall Council under the Freedom of Information Act showed there were four cases of alleged sexual contact or behaviour in the financial year 2010-11, three...
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Hayle predator David Walker, 61, jailed for rape attempt and...
A DANGEROUS sexual predator from Hayle who went into a woman's home, hit her with a rock and tried to rape her appeared at Truro Crown Court on Friday. Philip Lee, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said David Walker, 61, of Penberth Road, went to the woman's home on June 7, last year at about 11pm.He knew the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and she let him in, wondering why he was there.Mr Lee said Walker called his victim a tart, before pushing her to the floor and striking her...
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Illogan father Matthew Maw escapes jail after punching his...
AN ILLOGAN father who held a knife against his partner's throat and punched her has escaped jail despite having two previous convictions for domestic violence.
Matthew Maw, 30, of Coronation Road, was handed a stand-alone suspended sentence with no requirements at Truro Crown Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to affray, which was witnessed by four young children.
Maw had been in a relationship with Joanne Crocker for 15 months when on April 3 last year, they became involved in an argument...
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Truro woman, Tracy Starling, sentenced for assault and theft
A Truro woman has walked free from court after going on a shop lifting spree and beating up police officers.
Tracy Marie Starling of 23 Pendeen Road, Truro, received a suspended sentence for 15 charges of assault and theft at Truro Magistrates Court today.
The 33 year-old, who was described in court as a "vulnerable woman", pleaded guilty to all the offences.
On July 23 2013 Starling stole goods including hooded tops, moisturiser and a bedspread from four shops in Truro before assaulting two...
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Dean Darbourne will keep licence despite being found drunk in car
A PUBLIC-SPIRITED young man whose actions in disarming another male wielding a knife featured in a court case was himself before magistrates this week.Dean Darbourne, 25, pleaded guilty to being in charge of a vehicle while unfit through drink when he appeared before the court in Bodmin on Monday.Chris Nicholls, for the defence, said Darbourne had no previous convictions and had "demonstrated his commitment to society" by disarming a man holding a 7in kitchen knife outside a...
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Jeremy Phillips of St Eval jailed for giving police wrong details
A ST EVAL man who tried to avoid prosecution for driving offences after crashing his car by giving police his brother's details has been jailed.Comparing the case of 34-year-old Jeremy Phillips to that involving former MP Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce, Judge Christopher Harvey-Clark said he was being jailed to warn others such conduct would not be tolerated.At Truro Crown Court on Friday Phillips, of Lancaster Crescent, admitted an act intended to pervert the course of public justice....
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Truro driver Rebecca Steadman pulled out in front of cycling...
A DRIVER who pulled out of a junction in front of two cyclists, causing one to fall and injure himself, told Truro magistrates she thought she was driving safely.Rebecca Steadman, aged 27 and of Falmouth Road, Truro, pleaded not guilty to driving without due care and attention on April 18 but was convicted and fined £130 with £220 costs and surcharge and given six points on her licence.The court heard the cyclists, a married couple, had been confronted by the car turning out of the...
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Grenade launcher stolen in Cornwall
A grenade launcher and other replica weapons have been stolen from a property in Cornwall.
Police say the high quality replicas also included a Smith and Wesson pistol in its case, a crossbow and a number of Beretta pistols.
They were stolen from a property at Winnards Pearch, near St Columb in the early hours of January 9.
Anyone with knowledge of the current location of the items and persons responsible is asked to call Newquay or St Columb Police on 101 quoting crime number...
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Nathan James, 21, of Penzance, jailed after being caught with...
A YOUNG man caught with drugs on him in Camborne has been jailed for 14 months after running out of chances.At Truro Crown Court, Nathan James, 21, of Alexandra Road, Penzance, admitted possession of cannabis and criminal damage – convictions which put him in breach of two other court orders.Scott Horner, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said that on December 5 James was spotted by police officers acting suspiciously in Camborne town centre.He was in the front passenger seat of a blue...
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Birmingham University medical student Ewan Fawcitt, 19, from...
A MEDICAL student from Truro took his own life after developing depression, an inquest has found.Ewan Fawcitt was 19 and in the second year of study for a degree in medicine at Birmingham University when he killed himself in Truro on January 14 last year, the hearing in Truro was told.The inquest was first opened and adjourned in September last year while Cornwall deputy coroner Andrew Cox sought formal responses from the university and from Mr Fawcitt's GP.Following the finding that he...
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Do you know this woman? Police seek information regarding shoe...
Police are appealing for help from the public after a pair of shoes was stolen in Truro.
Police believe the shoes were taken from an unattended bag in the Stormfront store in Pydar Street.
The shoes were taken at approximately 3.15pm on January 2.
Police would like to speak with the woman on the right in the photograph in relation to the theft.
Anybody with any information regarding the identity of the woman is asked to contact the police on 101.
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