A SHOPLIFTER has been ordered to undergo drug rehabilitation requirement assessment after several thefts.James Pennington Pickard, 20, of Kimberley Park Road, Falmouth, admitted at Truro Magistrates' Court to stealing perfume, electrical equipment, cosmetics and DVDs, together worth £322.96, from shops in Falmouth and Helston during February, and asked for four similar offences to be taken into account.Mike Brown, for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the court that during an interview...
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Drugs prevented James Pennington Pickard of Falmouth remembering...
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Adrian Joseph Degabriele of Redruth used key to damage neighbour'...
AN ANGRY neighbour keyed a woman's car causing damage put at £618, Truro magistrates heard.Adrian Joseph Degabriele, 24, of Harmony Close, Redruth, pleaded guilty to damaging a Corsa car belonging to Julie Saunders on February 12.Jill Wilson, for the prosecution, said there had been a neighbourly dispute for some months between Degabriele and a mother and daughter who lived opposite to him, resulting in them installing CCTV at their home.On the evening of February 12, Degabriele was seen...
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PENRYNSkunk charge
IN CUSTODY for another matter, an 18-year-old Penryn man was searched by the police and found to be carrying 1.89g of skunk cannabis worth £11.18 in a cannabis grinder.Brad Lenton, of Harbour View, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to possessing the drug at Camborne on January 28.He had a police caution for a similar offence in October.Lenton, who offered no mitigation, was fined £110 and told to pay £105 in costs and surcharge.
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Single mother in court for drink-driving
A MOTORIST was caught as a second-time drink-driver after staff at a Helston supermarket called the police and said they suspected her of driving while under the influence of alcohol.At Truro Magistrates' Court Karen Lesley Sarilar, 51, of Godolphin Road, Helston, pleaded guilty to drink- driving at Helston on March 28 when she tested at 116mcg alcohol in breath, more than three times the limit. She had a similar previous conviction in 2009.The court heard she was a single parent who used...
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Police appeal for help to identify people caught on CCTV cameras...
POLICE are appealing for help to identify these people caught on CCTV cameras in relation to separate incidents of graffiti and shoplifting in Falmouth.Staff at Wilkinson reported a theft to police, who are trying to identify a woman caught on CCTV cameras in the store. Call 101 with any information which would help to identify her, quoting crime reference GP/14/560. In a separate incident, criminal damage was caused by graffiti to a building in an alleyway and two men were captured on camera....
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Redruth shoplifter Julian Pearse targeted Truro's TK Maxx to...
FED UP with his tatty clothes, a Redruth man went shoplifting at TK Maxx in Truro to get a new wardrobe after being told it was an easy target for thieves.But someone in the store spotted Julian Pearse removing security tags from items and he was stopped and searched.Gail Hawkley, for the prosecution, told Truro magistrates Pearse was found wearing a jacket, denim trousers and a pair of shoes that he had stolen.A further stolen item was found in his pocket.Pearse, aged 48, of Chadwick Parc,...
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Eight-year-old boy assaulted in Camborne
DEVON and Cornwall Police are appealing for witnesses after an eight-year-old boy was assaulted by a man he spotted peering into his house.Camborne police said the attack took place on Wellington Road in the town at around 5pm on Friday.A spokesman said: "A man was seen looking into the house on Wellington Road. The boy who lived there came out and confronted him and asked the man what he was doing."The man then grabbed the boy by the arm and leg and dragged him over a wall before...
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Police ask public for help after young male was spotted firing a...
POLICE are appealing for information following reports of a young male seen firing a BB gun in Tesco car park in Wesley Street, Camborne, on Tuesday evening.The male, who was riding a BMX bike at the time, fired the gun between 6pm and 6.30pm. Anybody who can help is asked to contact Camborne Police Station on 101, quoting AC/14/1533.
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Brendan Curtin from The Lizard banned for three years for...
BRENDAN VINCENT CURTIN, 50, of The Lizard, entered a guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court to a charge of drink-driving at Helston on January 26.He was fined £110 and banned from driving for 36 months.
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Hayle man Anthony Bennett, 20, jailed for raping two young girls...
CONSUMED by guilt, a 20-year-old Hayle man walked into a police station to confess to raping two young girls.
Anthony Bennett made the shocking confessions at Penzance police station last summer that he had raped two young girls when he was a teenager aged around 13 to 15.
At Truro Crown Court on Wednesday, Bennett, of Penmare Terrace, was jailed for his abuse of the girls, who cannot be named for legal reasons.
Gareth Evans, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Bennett first went to the...
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Truro man Carlos Roche denies raping and sexually assaulting...
A 36-YEAR-OLD Truro man has gone on trial accused of raping a woman while his partner was in the house.
Carlos Roche, aged 36 and of Moresk Road, denies the charge, having told police he did have sex with the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, but she consented.
At Truro Crown Court on Monday Jason Beal, for the prosecution, said Roche had carried out the sexual assault at his home after a night out in Truro in December 2012.
Mr Beal said the woman had fallen asleep on Roche's sofa...
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Taxi driver allegedly attacked takes fight to local MP
A TRURO taxi driver allegedly attacked in his car in the early hours has taken his case to the local MP and the police and crime commissioner for Devon and Cornwall.As reported in the West Briton last week, police waited six weeks to interview the man suspected of attacking Andy Darroch in Truro city centre and no arrest was made.Mr Darroch has now sent a complaint with his evidence of the alleged attack to MP Sarah Newton and commissioner Tony Hogg.
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Warnings about Cornish police scam
Devon and Cornwall police are urging people to be on their guard after fake police officers have stolen thousands of pounds from members of the public.
The criminals have used their disguises to carry out a spree of fraud attacks in Devon and it is possible that they might target people in Cornwall next.
In the latest incident happened on Tuesday when an elderly man from Paignton was duped out of £12,000 by someone impersonating a Metropolitan Police officer who claimed that someone had...
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Truro man Carlos Roche found not guilty of rape and sexual...
A TRURO man has been found not guilty of raping a woman after a night out.
Carlos Roche, 36, of Moresk Road, went on trial at Truro Crown Court on Monday accused of raping and sexually assaulting the woman in December 2012.
Jason Beal, for the Crown Prosecution Service, told the jury that the woman had fallen asleep on Roche's sofa when she woke up to find him behind her and that he raped her.
Roche denied charges of rape and assault by penetration, telling the jury that he had sex with the...
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Fiancee wanted to take back Samuel Paul Thomas after he bit her
A FIANCÉ who twice bit his wife-to-be in the chest said his actions were due to not taking his medication - and he "bit anyone".Asked why he had made the bites, Samuel Paul Thomas told police: "I don't know, my tablets. I bite anyone that has a pulse. I have done it to my mother as well."Thomas, 21, of Penmare Terrace, Hayle, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to assaulting Keely Waller at Penzance on January 20.Gail Hawkley, for the CPS, said Ms Waller had...
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Shoplifter Luca Seaman too drunk to remember crime
A 22-YEAR-OLD "quite drunk" shoplifter was sent to prison for ten weeks at Truro Magistrates' Court.Luca Seaman, of Budock Water, Falmouth, told police he did not remember much about stealing food from a Londis store in Falmouth because he had been "quite drunk".In court he pleaded guilty to stealing from other shops, in Falmouth and Helston, making three offences in all, involving goods worth a total of £21.76, and asked for two other offences of shoplifting to be...
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Falmouth police search for Swanpool grave robber
POLICE are appealing for information in relation to an alleged serial grave-robber.A man described as "scruffy" and walking a "big dog" has been seen stealing items from graves at Falmouth Cemetery, near Swanpool, according to reports made to police.PCSO Ashley Fuller said a pewter fairy was stolen from a grave on the last occasion."The person involved is thought to have taken items from graves on the site in the past," he said."He throws the ball for the dog...
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Shoplifter Thomas Percival Bowden hid ice cream down his trousers
A SHOPLIFTER concealed ice cream, an ice lolly and a burger down his trousers.At Truro Magistrates' Court Thomas Percival Bowden, aged 20, of Saracen Way, Penryn, pleaded guilty to three shoplifting offences from Costcutter in Penryn, and asked for two others to be taken into account.Alison May, for the prosecution, said CCTV had been used to identify Bowden after he was seen stealing vitamin pills worth £268.71 from Boots on April 1.Interviewed by the police, Bowden said he would have...
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Vehicle damaged over night in Tolvadon
POLICE have appealed for information after a vehicle was damaged in Tehidy Close in Tolvaddon.The damage occurred between 5pm on Thursday and 10.30am on Friday.Anybody with information is asked to contact PC Kingshott by calling 101 quoting crime reference AC/14/1568.
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Police appeal after Redruth vehicle break in
POLICE are appealing for information after a vehicle was broken into in Redruth.The vehicle was parked in the Cardrew industrial estate and was broken into between 5pm, March 8 and 2.25pm, March 10.Anyone with information should call police on 101, ref AC/14/1002 or call anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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