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Zelah alcoholic Dawn Swinscoe stabbed friend in row over lost bus...

June 4, 2014, 10:00 pm
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AN ALCOHOLIC stabbed her friend six or seven times after an argument about a bus pass, a court has heard. Truro Crown Court was told Dawn Swinscoe, 43, was letting Dean Brannigan stay at her home at Chapel Crescent, Zelah, at the time of the attack on January 11. Elaine Hobson, for the prosecution, said both were alcoholics and had been drinking in Newquay when they became separated. Swinscoe got a police officer to take her home and police also brought Mr Branigan back to her address. "It seems...

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Dad admits assaulting ex-partner

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A COUPLE who were separated two years ago and had difficulties between them were forced together afterwards because of their continued relationship with their child, Truro magistrates heard.That was unfortunate, said solicitor Martin Pearce, when the father of the child, 37-year-old Lee West, of Treverbyn Road, Truro, pleaded guilty to assaulting the mother, Michelle, at Truro.Alison May, for the prosecution, said on April 13 West went to the mother's house to see their child.When she realised...
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Two men sought after attempt to take woman's car at hospital

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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POLICE are asking for help to identify these two men suspected of stealing a woman's car keys and mobile phone from the emergency department at Royal Cornwall Hospital and attempting to take her car.The incident happened between 2.50pm and 3.12pm at the Treliske hospital on May 8, but police have only now released details.The victim had left her coat unattended for a short time when the offenders took her keys and phone from the pockets.AlertedWhen she discovered her keys were missing she...

Two men sought after attempt to take woman's car at hospital

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Peter Richard Silverlock, of Truro, stole flowers for poorly...

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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UPSET at being unable to provide proof of his age when trying to buy cigarettes in Truro's Co-op store, a 25-year-old man knocked over a display stand and did further damage.At Truro Magistrates' Court, Peter Richard Silverlock, of Lemon Row in the city, pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage and to a separate allegation that he stole three bunches of flowers from Tesco on another date.Alison May, for the prosecution, said after his arrest for the criminal damage, Silverlock told the...
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Gunwalloe pensioner collapsed and died in Treliske hospital after...

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A PENSIONER was said to be lively and putting on lipstick a day before she collapsed and died as a result of complications arising from her cancer treatment.Margaret Elizabeth Marett, 74, of Parc Askell Close, Gunwalloe, had been suffering from bowel cancer.It is suspected that radiotherapy treatment led to complications that caused her death last year.An inquest into the death of Mrs Marett, a retired catering assistant, was held in Truro on Tuesday.Cornwall coroner Emma Carlyon said Mrs Marett...
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FALMOUTHTrial date set

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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BENJAMIN YOUNG, aged 23, of Trelawney Road, Falmouth, pleaded not guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to assaulting Robyn Duffield at Penryn and to criminal damage to property belonging to her valued at £75, on the same day.His case was adjourned for trial at Truro Magistrates' Court on June 16.
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HELSTONCrown Court

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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DANIEL JOHN HENDRA, 27, of Coronation Place, Helston, entered no pleas to charges at Truro Magistrates' Court of making indecent photographs of a child and attempting to pay for sexual services of a boy aged 13-15 years at Camborne between 2012-2013. His case was sent to Truro Crown Court on June 27.
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Football club power washer stolen after only four days

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A £1,000 REWARD has been offered after a power washer was stolen from Truro City Football Club – only four days after it was bought.The £2,000 Kärcher machine was taken from the Treyew Road ground in the early hours of Friday, having been bought on the Monday for a car-wash venture set up six weeks ago.Club chairman Pete Masters said he and fellow owner Phil Perryman initially loaned the club power washers from their own businesses but decided to buy one after the idea...

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Helston father Darren James Ireland sent texts threatening to...

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A FATHER sent text messages threatening to kill his former partner in breach of a court order.Darren James Ireland, of Trenear, Helston, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to sending harassing and threatening text messages to Natalie Jane Davies.Will Willden, for the prosecution, said the non-molestation order made in Truro County Court in April prohibited Ireland from sending threatening or harassing messages to Ms Davies. But on May 7 she received a number of them, including:...
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CAMBORNECrown Court

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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JAMES ANDREW MARTYN, 35, of no fixed address in Camborne, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to possessing 1.249 grams of cannabis at Camborne on May 7 and was sent to Truro Crown Court on June 12 for sentence, having been given a suspended sentence there earlier for another offence.
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Kieran Bradshaw, 18, of Balfour Street, Leicester, has been sent...

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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AN 18-YEAR-OLD charged with nine sexual offences against teenage girls has been remanded in custody by Bodmin magistrates.Kieran Bradshaw, who gave an address at Balfour Street, Leicester, appeared before the court in custody in connection with the alleged offences said to have been committed in Truro and Camborne on dates between 2012 and June last year and said to involve teenage girls.Bail was withheld and the case against him was sent to Truro Crown Court for a hearing on June 17.
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100 pregnant ewes stolen in 'sophisticated' operation

June 4, 2014, 11:15 pm
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SOPHISTICATED thieves have stolen more than 100 pregnant ewes from a farm.The sheep from Fentongollan Farm on the Roseland had been put out for the winter across farms in the local area.In total 1,700 ewes were put out last November but on their return this February for lambing it was discovered that more than 100 had gone missing.Jeremy Hosking, from the farm, said: "They went out to dairy farms in about November and they were all electronically tagged and all scanned before they went...

100 pregnant ewes stolen in 'sophisticated' operation

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Redruth man Kevin Cooper denies murdering David Alderson

June 5, 2014, 3:37 am
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A REDRUTH man has denied murdering a former driving instructor whose body was found at a disused Cornish mine. At Truro Crown Court this morning, Kevin Cooper, aged 33, entered a not guilty plea to having murdered 72-year-old David Alderson, whose body was found at the disused Wheal Maid copper mine at Carharrack, on January 18 this year. Cooper, of Poldory View, Carharrack, is accused of killing him between January 16 and 19. Mr Alderson's death was initially treated as a cycling accident but a...

Redruth man Kevin Cooper denies murdering David Alderson

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'Feud' fear as vandals hit Falmouth Oggy Oggy pasty shop again

June 5, 2014, 10:00 pm
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STAFF at two Falmouth pasty shops fear vandals who smashed windows in three separate attacks will return to cause more damage. One of the windows at the Oggy Oggy Pasty Co shop in Arwenack Street was smashed last week by what police believed was an air rifle shot at close range. It follows damage to a front door last year and a smashed window last week at the local chain's Church Street shop. The manager of both shops, Sarah Kingsley, said the franchise operator, Tracey Hirst, believed she was...

'Feud' fear as vandals hit Falmouth Oggy Oggy pasty shop again

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Hayle teen Cameron Preston, 18, downloaded hundreds of child...

June 5, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A TEENAGER has admitted downloading hundreds of indecent images of children. Truro Crown Court heard 18-year-old Cameron Preston first looked at that type of material at the age of 15. Elaine Hobson, for the prosecution, said Preston's family reported concerns that he was missing to police on September 18 last year. She said: "He had been suffering from depression and confessed that he had again been accessing the internet for indecent images." After Preston was found, police seized two...

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Redruth burglar Robert Llewellyn asks 'what do I have to do to...

June 5, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A BURGLAR who walked into a police station to confess to a break-in before being released on bail to commit further crimes asked a court what he had to do to get jailed. Robert Llewellyn, 26, went to police in Penzance on February 2 to tell them about a burglary he had committed at a fish and chip shop on Killigrew Street in Falmouth the previous June, Truro Crown Court heard on Wednesday. Philip Lee, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said Llewellyn, of Green Lane, Redruth, told officers he had...

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Mum Michelle Harvey of Illogan tells of 'hellish' months as...

June 5, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A SINGLE mother has spoken about her "eight months of hell" after being accused of stealing a customer's money while working for a national store chain. Michelle Harvey, 47, from Illogan, was sacked from the Redruth branch of Wilkinson in August last year after a customer reported a missing purse. The former shop assistant pleaded not guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to stealing £180 in coins and opted for a trial at Truro Crown Court: but in court on May 22 the prosecution offered no...

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'I'm not racist - I've worked overseas', claimed Carl Badem Jones...

June 7, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A WELSH train passenger racially abused another man because he was speaking on his mobile phone, Truro magistrates heard.Carl Badem Jones, from Gwynedd, had accused the Asian passenger of "disgusting" behaviour, telling him to go back to his own country."Your type are just bleeding this country dry," Jones told him.He also warned the man he had better not be travelling to Penzance, where Jones was going, because he would just have met his "worst nightmare".Jones,...

'I'm not racist - I've worked overseas', claimed Carl Badem Jones...

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Hayle teen caught with cannabis worth £3,500 sold the drugs...

June 8, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A HAYLE teenager had been picked by an older man to sell drugs for him for a cut of the profits, a court heard.At Truro Magistrates' Court, sitting as a youth court, Deborah Von Kohler, solicitor for the teenager said: "He was strolling along and somebody gave him the cannabis and he did not look further than that. It appears someone saw him, picked on him in the local area as someone useful to sell the drug."The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted two offences...

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Police dealt with violence at weddings and wakes across Cornwall...

June 9, 2014, 4:31 am
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Police officers from the Devon & Cornwall force were called to tackle violence at 16 weddings and wakes last year after fighting broke out between guests. They were called to deal with fights at weddings at both Par and Redruth, while violence also erupted at wakes in Liskeard, Saltash and St Austell. In all, officers were called to 10 weddings and six wakes across the two counties in 2013-14, resulting in four arrests. Devon and Cornwall Police said the figures represented a tiny...

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