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Warning for Cornish home owners on aggressive door-knocking...

August 1, 2014, 12:12 am
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Reports of suspect tree surgeons operating in Newquay and the arrest of a man who used aggressive sales tactics and tried to overcharge a lady in Hayle has led to fresh warning from Cornwall Trading Standards. In Newquay, the so called tree surgeons cold called at a property and quoted £140 for work on a tree which was then hastily reduced to £40 when the resident stated she was unable to pay. The resident described the state of the tree as "hacked to pieces" when the men left. The...

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Threemilestone McDonald's boss Charles Middlemass left CCTV on as...

August 1, 2014, 10:00 pm
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LONG hours and late nights led to the manager of a McDonald's restaurant stealing nearly £6,000 before fleeing to Scotland in a taxi, a court heard. Hapless Charles Middlemass forgot to turn the CCTV off at the Threemilestone fast food outlet while he started to stuff the day's takings into a bag. He turned the camera off halfway through and left the premises, locking his mobile phone inside, Truro Crown Court heard on Tuesday. Michael Brown, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the...

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Richard Michael Harvey took naked photos of friend at Helston...

August 2, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A VOYEUR took photographs of a naked friend while she slept unaware.At Truro Magistrates' Court Richard Michael Harvey, 29, giving an address in Bedfordshire, pleaded guilty to a charge of voyeurism at Helston on August 30, recording another person doing a private act, intending to obtain his sexual gratification by looking at it.Anthony Eskander, for the prosecution, said the couple were close friends since their teens, and in August last year Harvey came to Cornwall to visit his...

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Perranporth father Darren Bown is jailed for attack on his ex

August 3, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A PERRANPORTH father who breached a suspended sentence four times has been jailed after he bit his partner and pulled her hair. Michael Brown, for the prosecution, told Truro Crown Court that Darren Bown, 31, of Tregundy Road, had been in a relationship with his now former partner Sophie Harris for a number of years prior to the incident at her home in Truro on May 1. There was a verbal altercation between the pair and Bown tried to cuddle Ms Harris but that she pulled away and he then pulled...

Perranporth father Darren Bown is jailed for attack on his ex

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Homeless man Leslie Hicks sentenced for stalking Redruth...

August 6, 2014, 10:00 pm
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A TEENAGER is terrified of leaving her house after being stalked for months by an illiterate homeless man as she waited for her school bus.Every day Leslie Hicks, 66, followed and stared at the girl, aged 14 and 15 at the time, who cannot be named for legal reasons.Hicks, who has previous convictions for indecently assaulting girls aged under 16, pleaded guilty to stalking without fear, alarm or distress and was sentenced to five months in prison at Truro Magistrates' Court last...

Homeless man Leslie Hicks sentenced for stalking Redruth...

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Norman Treseder from Wendron faces manslaughter charge over death...

August 6, 2014, 11:00 pm
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TWO men have appeared in court over an electrocution death on a farm.Norman Treseder, 54, from Wendron, was in the dock at Bodmin Magistrates' Court charged with manslaughter.Roger Matthews, 47, of St Ervan, Wadebridge, is also charged with manslaughter. The case involves an accident in 2011 at Great Brynn Barton Farm, Withiel, near Roche, in which 33-year-old Jason Morgan was electrocuted while installing safety netting on a steel-framed barn extension.Philip Tucker, 57, from St Wenn, Bodmin,...

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CORNWALLTrio accused

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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TWO women and a man are to appear at Truro Crown Court alleged to have neglected or ill-treated people in their care who lacked or were reasonably believed to lack mental capacity at the Ponsandane Residential Home in Penzance between 2012 and 2013.Anna Dalziel, 34, a director at the home, of Redannick Lane, Truro, faces two charges of neglect; Emma Morse, 48, of The Close, Penzance, faces four charges of ill treatment; and Robert Brian Rogers, 42, of Tremore Road, Redruth, care home manager,...
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Benefit fraud

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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LYNNE BRIMICOMBE, 39, of Holly Close, Threemilestone, Truro, entered a guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court on July 22 to benefit fraud between 2012 and 2013 at Truro and was conditionally discharged for two years.
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18-month ban

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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CATHERINE ALISA BARNES, 34, c/o Tregolls Road, Truro, admitted at Truro Magistrates' Court to using a vehicle without insurance on December 24 and was fined £110 and banned for 18 months. She also admitted not having an appropriate licence.
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Son ordered to stay away from his father

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A 42-YEAR-OLD has been ordered by Truro magistrates to keep away from his father and his home for two years.Andrew Paul Salmon, of Pendeen Road, Truro, denied causing criminal damage to a pair of spectacles worth £55 and belonging to his father Paul Salmon on June 18.His solicitor Dieter Kehler told the magistrates the allegation followed a confrontation at a cemetery and it was obvious the two men could not be in the same area at the same time. The prosecution offered no evidence and the...
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Sentence cut for 'bomb plan' man

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A "DANGEROUS and angry" father who plotted to kill his estranged wife and mother-in-law after distracting police with home-made bomb blasts has had his sentence cut on appeal.Christopher Hines-Randle planned to set off explosives in Truro and Penzance to divert resources from St Austell, leaving him to carry out his plan to murder several people, including his former wife, her mother, a social worker and a doctor.His plan was foiled after a friend he had confided in reported him to...

Sentence cut for 'bomb plan' man

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TRUROEaterie attack

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A TRURO restaurant has been damaged in what is thought to have been an attack in the early hours.Gravy Boesti Restaurant in Edward Street was vandalised between midnight and noon on July 27. Anyone with information is being asked to call Truro police on 101 quoting reference CR/093851/14.
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HAYLENo plea given

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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MATTHEW James Cooper, 40, of Penpol Terrace, Hayle, appeared before District Judge Kevin Gray at Truro Magistrates' Court facing three allegations of possessing drugs with intent to supply to another person and one of possessing £5,613 as criminal property at Hayle on March 6.No pleas were entered and the case was sent to Truro Crown Court on August 29.
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TRUROIntruder scare

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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POLICE are appealing for information after a man was woken up in the night by two men attempting to climb into his Truro flat.The pair climbed scaffolding to reach a bedroom window at the rear of Footes Field in Tresawya Drive between 11.45pm and 11.50pm on July 25.One intruder was in his forties and wearing a dark top and the second had dark hair. Anyone with information is being asked to call Truro police on 101 quoting crime reference number CR/093482/14.
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Defendant remanded in custody

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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ADAM SCOTT BURGOYNE, 24, of Webber Hill, Falmouth, was before Truro magistrates alleged to have attempted to cause grievous bodily harm to Ricky Sutton at Falmouth on July 27. No plea was entered and the case was sent to Truro Crown Court on August 19.Burgoyne was remanded in custody.
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Suspect 'fiddled with genital area'

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was seen touching himself inappropriately near a Truro school.The man was spotted in a popular walking area between St Clement and Tresillian near Pencalenick School.He is believed to have had his trousers undone and police said he was reportedly "fiddling with his genital area".The man, believed to be in his fifties, was wearing dark trousers, a light T-shirt and carrying a black shoulder bag.Police would like to speak to anyone who saw...
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'Frail' pensioner failed to recover after fall at home

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A 79-YEAR-OLD died due to a fall in her home, an inquest heard.Jenefer Mary Parnell, of Paynters Lane, Redruth, died on May 27 last year in Camborne and Redruth hospital.Cornwall Coroners' Court in Truro was told that Mrs Parnell fell over on May 3 while trying to sit down in a chair.She had previously fallen on Boxing Day, 2012, and was described by her GP as "very frail" and "slow to mobilise", despite her receiving physiotherapy.Her husband, Gerald Parnell, said:...
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Drink driver Anthony Nathan Bruce Gilbert had to be tasered when...

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A DRINK-DRIVER became violent after police heard his car scraping the road and followed the tracks, Truro magistrates heard.Anthony Nathan Bruce Gilbert, 26, of Langton Road, Falmouth, pleaded guilty to drink-driving and to being drunk and disorderly on July 20.Alison May, for the CPS, said officers in the police station at Falmouth had been alerted to the defendant's car after hearing the noise of its wheel rim on the road outside at 1.45am. They followed the track and found the car empty in ...
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Uncollected milk led to discovery of man's body

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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A SEMI-NAKED obese recluse was found dead in the hallway of his house by a policeman after a milkman noticed he was not collecting his milk, an inquest has heard.PC Andrew Shorten found 70-year-old Anthony Wesley Teare at Redruth on January 27.The inquest, held at Truro, was told that the officer from Camborne police station called at Mr Teare's house after his local doctor's surgery was informed that he had not been collecting his milk.PC Shorten said: "When I first got there the door was...
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COVERACKDriver banned

August 6, 2014, 11:15 pm
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GEORGE ROBERT FOXTON, 69, of North Corner, Coverack, Helston, entered a guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court to drink driving at Helston on March 8 and was fined £600 and banned from driving for a year.
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