Truro man Christopher Teague jailed for 14 years for rape and...

February 23, 2015, 5:09 am

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A TRURO man has been jailed for 14 years after being found guilty of raping a young girl and indecently assaulting a boy.Christopher Teague went on trial at Truro Crown Court last Monday accused of a series of sexual offences against the two victims, who cannot be named for legal reasons, on dates between 2000 and 2010.Teague, 34, of St Clements Close, who the court heard had learning difficulties, denied two counts of sexually assaulting a girl aged under-13 and one of raping her.He also denied...

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Falmouth hotel owner says £100,000 stolen by employee may...

February 25, 2015, 10:00 pm

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THE owner of St Michael's Hotel in Falmouth said he may never again see the £100,000 stolen by a former accountant.Lisa Thompson was rumbled by another staff member for paying colleagues fake wages while diverting funds into her own coffers.She was jailed on Friday for 15 months after pleading guilty to two charges of false accounting and fraud by abuse of position between 2008 and 2013.Owner Nigel Carpenter was pleased the court case was over, but said the matter itself was not. Thompson...

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February 26, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A HAYLE man who admitted sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl in a barn near Penzance in the 1970s has walked free from court. Christopher Prowse, 60, forced the child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to touch him intimately and then indecently assaulted her, Truro Crown Court heard at his trial. Joanna Martin, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the victim, now an adult, had not spoken about the incident until much later in life. She said in about 2004 the woman confronted...

CPS is 'disintegrating' says judge after delays in Truro court

February 26, 2015, 10:00 pm

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CRIMINALS could start to walk free from court in Truro despite being accused of serious offences because the agency that prosecutes cases is "disintegrating", a judge has said. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which has been hit by budget cuts and office closures in recent months, came under fire at Truro Crown Court after three cases were listed in one day for lawyers to explain delays in serving evidence. The court heard that, in one such case, where three people are accused of...

Camborne cannabis grower Brian Rossitter has made court...

February 27, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A CANNABIS growing pensioner who restarted cultivating the drug on numerous occasions despite repeated raids by the police has been jailed for five years. Brain Rossitter, also spelt Roissetter in court papers, was found with three separate growing operations of the Class B illegal drug at his home between May 2013 and July 2014 worth approximately £74,600, Truro Crown Court heard on Friday. Elaine Hobson, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said officers first visited the 70-year-old's...

Student Adam Newton stole woman's handbag from Truro nightclub

February 28, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A STUDENT who stole a woman's handbag while in a Truro nightclub after drinking more than a dozen pints of cider has been ordered to carry out unpaid work. Adam Newton, 22, picked up Emma Smith's handbag on January 9, from the alcove she had left it in while she was dancing in Vanilla, Truro Crown Court heard on Friday. Philip Lee, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said the bag contained Ms Smith's mobile phone, cosmetics and cash. He said Newton, a broadcast student at Salford University, then...

Office move by Devon and Cornwall crime boss will cost £500...

March 1, 2015, 11:02 pm

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Half a million pounds of tax payers' money is to be spent on relocating the office of Devon and Cornwall police and crime commissioner Tony Hogg.Mr Hogg and his team will be moving to the region's police headquarters at Middlemoor in Exeter. The commissioner had said previously such a move would be inappropriate because of his need for independence.A Labour councillor said she was "astonished'' by the £500,000 cost involved.The commissioner's office said the move represented...

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March 2, 2015, 1:35 am

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New tough laws come into force today to stop people driving while on drugs, with officers now armed with "drugalysers". Drivers can now be prosecuted for being caught exceeding limits set for eight illegal drugs, including cannabis and cocaine, and can face a fine up to £5,000, six months in prison and a minimum one-year driving ban. The new regulations set low levels for the eight illegal drugs and higher levels for eight prescription drugs, including morphine and...

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COURT LISTINGS: Who has appeared before Truro Magistrates Court -...

March 3, 2015, 1:38 am

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ARTUR EUGIENIUSZ PIECKA, 29, of Queensway, Hayle, was convicted in his absence at Truro Magistrates' Court on February 18 of failing to give information to the police at Hayle on October 30 and was fined £600 and banned from driving for six months.RYAN ASHLEY SPRY, 29, of Esperanza Court, Falmouth, entered a guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court on February 18 to possessing cannabis at Falmouth on January 2 and was given a community order and fined £35. He also admitted resisting...

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March 3, 2015, 2:11 am

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Police investigating the disappearance of Bristol teenager Rebecca Watts have found body parts at a house in the city this morning.Five further people have been arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender, while a 28-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody. Avon & Somerset police have released the following statement this morning:"As a result of new information received late last night (02/03), we attended a house at Barton Court in...

Redruth woman Karen Pedley appears in court over Truro care home...

March 3, 2015, 7:13 am

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A WOMAN is set to stand trial accused of murdering a 96-year-old woman following a fire in a Truro care home in 2008. Karen Pedley, 41, of Park Stenak, Carharrack, Redruth, appeared at Truro Crown Court this morning via a video link from HMP Bronzefield where she was sent after being remanded in custody by magistrates last month. The 41-year-old, who appeared on the video screen in a wheelchair, is facing one allegation of murdering Gladys Rowe on December 1 2008. The charge relates to a fire at...

Benefit fraudster Suzann Nevitt from Camborne did not think to...

March 3, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A WOMAN who claimed more than £9,000 in benefits and failed to declare she had been working at the time told an investigator it did not cross her mind to reveal that fact.Suzann Nevitt, 47, of Parc an Tansys, Pengegon, Camborne, pleaded guilty at Truro Magistrates' Court to five allegations of benefit fraud between 2010 and 2013 involving income support, employment support, housing benefit and council tax benefit with an overpayment of £9,359.20.When Nevitt was interviewed she...

Witness appeal after woman is sexually assaulted by another woman...

March 4, 2015, 2:17 am

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was sexually assaulted by another woman in the toilets at a popular beachside pub.The incident took place at the Watering Hole at Perranporth on Saturday, February 21st between 12.30am and 1.15am.A police spokesman said: "The victim, a woman in her early twenties was sexually assaulted by another woman in the ladies toilets at the premises."The victim was dragged into a toilet cubicle where she was sexually assaulted."The suspect is...

Former Falmouth heroin addict Karl Flanagan spared jail for...

March 4, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A FORMER heroin addict from Falmouth and serial shoplifter has been spared jail after the court heard he had managed to stop taking the Class A drug. In November, Karl Flanagan admitted committing 50 shoplifting offences between April and August last year taking items worth about £20,000 including clothes, cosmetics and alcohol from local stores. At Truro Crown Court, the 31-year-old was given a deferred sentence and ordered to stop taking drugs and stealing. On Thursday the court heard he...

Syria extremists arrested after Cornwall money-laundering scam

March 4, 2015, 10:42 pm

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Two men have been arrested on suspicion of money-laundering in Cornwall after a counter-terrorism investigation into large-scale fraud linked to British extremists travelling to Syria.The men, aged 29 and 23, were held at addresses in west and east London.Officers also searched four addresses in other parts of the capital.Scotland Yard said the arrests were linked to reports of vulnerable people being tricked out of money after being phoned by bogus police officers.Two of the offences relate to...

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Truro dad spends £10,000 on tracking down killer of his...

March 5, 2015, 1:09 am

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A Truro dad has racked up a £10,000 bill from private detectives he hired to track down the killer of his daughter's kitten.Neil Tregarthen decided to take matters into his own hands after he says police "failed to investigate".His daughter Aylish's kitten Farah died after being shot with an air rifle near her home in September.Mr Tregarthen, from Truro, told the BBC private detectives conducted a six-week investigation.After their investigations, they managed to identify a prime...

Perranporth man Darren Bown guilty of supplying cocaine after...

March 6, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A TRURO landlord is facing jail after police raided the house he was renting out and found more than £15,000 worth of cocaine. Darren Bown, aged 32 who lives in Perranporth, was subletting rooms in the property on Moresk Road at the time of the police search on November 30, 2012, Truro Crown Court heard during his trial. Michael Brown, for the Crown Prosecution Service, said officers found the drugs in a converted box room, which was locked and in the garage of the property. He said a...

Truro mother Charmaine Kirkpatrick claimed she had separated from...

March 7, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A TRURO mother defrauded the state out of nearly £7,000 in benefits while her husband worked for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Charmiane Kirkpatrick, told the authorities she had split from husband Rowan Kirkpatrick on March 12, 2013, Truro Crown Court heard on Friday. Michael Brown, prosecuting, said the 33-year-old, of Cleswyth Cornish Crescent, put in an application for income support. He said: "She stated in that application that she had separated and that she was living...

Landlord fined for Camborne property failings

March 9, 2015, 6:08 am

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A LANDLORD has been prosecuted for failing to provide adequate fixed heating in his Camborne property, forcing an elderly tenant to fill her bath with a kettle.Landlord Hadi Tolui, 69, originally pleaded not guilty to the offence of failing to comply with an improvement notice served on his property in Tehidy Road in Camborne, under Section 11 of the Housing Act 2014.Tolui, who lives in London, then entered a late guilty plea at Truro Magistrates' Court resulting in a conditional discharge for...

​Police appeal to trace St Austell man, Mark Thornton, who has...

March 9, 2015, 6:11 am

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Police are appealing for information about a St Austell man who has failed to comply with licence conditions following his release from prison.Mark Thornton, 28, who was originally charged with robbery, left his address in St Austell in February and has not been seen by police since. Officers would like information on his location so he can be arrested and sent back to prison. Thornton is described as white, 5ft 10ins tall, of slim build with short ginger hair.He has links to Redruth, Falmouth...