Camborne mum Tania Bennetts is jailed for glassing man on his...
A CAMBORNE mother has been jailed for two years for glassing a man on his cowboy-themed stag night.Tania Bennetts, 42, went on trial in November accused of wounding David Morford on August 11, 2012,...
View ArticleIllogan robber Philip Moon held up a pasty shop with a crowbar
AN ILLOGAN heroin addict held up a pasty shop with a crowbar and stole £100. Philip Moon, 24, scoped out his target before entering the shop with a scarf tied around the lower part of his face and the...
View Article'Moon man' from Newquay fined over rail station bomb threat
A NEWQUAY man has been fined after threatening to blow up a Buckinghamshire railway station.Announcing that he was speaking from the moon Paul Leslie Blatchford, aged 39 and from Mount Wise, told the...
View ArticleAsbo prevents Vicars from being drunk in public
A 22-YEAR-old Mousehole man has been handed a three-year Asbo which forbids him from being drunk in any public place in Cornwall.Ross James Vicars was issued with the order at West Cornwall...
View ArticleFalmouth ME sufferer Linda Bascombe claimed benefits despite...
A FALMOUTH woman saved more than £30,000 from her benefits payments to move house – a sum that was more than double the amount of capital she was allowed. Linda Bascombe, 58, of Trevithick Road, was...
View ArticleBritain's worst paedophile William Goad left just £50,000 -...
A LONG-running quest to see victims of Britain's most prolific paedophile financially compensated for the abuse they suffered may have come to an end – because his final estate amounted to just...
View ArticleAttack on girl by Wadebridge man John Wilson caught on mobile...
MOBILE phone footage of the moments before a 49-year-old Wadebridge delivery driver attacked a teenage girl was played to Bodmin magistrates at his trial for assault.John Wilson could be heard telling...
View ArticleAsbo 999 caller Carl Mackenzie of Chacewater jailed after abusing...
A SERIAL nuisance 999 caller has been jailed for 18 weeks after abusing paramedics called to help him when he was found lying on the pavement.Before Truro magistrates Carl Mackenzie, 49 and of...
View ArticleFormer Penzance man Lee Hosking jailed for violent rape
A FORMER Penzance man has been jailed for nine and a half years after admitting to raping a woman in an "exceptionally violent" attack in 2008. Lee Hosking, aged 28, now of Hastings, appeared at Truro...
View ArticleTeen's truancy leads to £420 bill for Torpoint mum
A TORPOINT mother was ordered to pay £420 after failing to ensure that her teenager went to school regularly.The 38-year-old unemployed mother of one, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded...
View ArticleDrink-driving pensioner drives into no-entry sign on one-way...
A PENSIONER who hit a No Entry sign as he drove the wrong way down a one-way street to get to his St Eval home has admitted a drink-driving charge.It was 68-year-old John Geraghty's third drink-related...
View ArticlePolice remind motorists in Redruth Fore Street not open to...
POLICE have issued a warning to motorists in Redruth after reports of vehicles being driven through the town's main shopping area even though it is not open to traffic.Fore Street, in the centre of...
View ArticleJail term and ban for Bernard Kitto's third drink drive offence
WARLEGGAN man Bernard Kitto has been handed a suspended prison sentence and 46-month driving ban by magistrates after admitting his third drink-drive offence.It was "unfortunate for Mr Kitto but...
View ArticleEx-partner David Allen of Camborne put knee through door while...
WHAT should have been "a nice, pleasant" occasion when a 50-year-old took Christmas presents to his former partner's house for the children turned sour after he put his knee through the front door,...
View ArticleThieves stole valuable watches from St Austell home
Police are appealing for information after thieves broke into a St Austell home and stole two valuable watches. A representative from Devon and Cornwall Police said the watches, which are valued at...
View ArticlePolice appeal after man in his 60s thrown into Helston Boating...
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted at Helston Boating Lake on Sunday. The man, in his sixties, was thrown into the lake in Coronation Park, Porthleven Road, between 4.30pm and...
View ArticleThief rode bike out of Halfords in Truro pursued by staff
A daring thief rode out of a store on a stolen bicycle with staff in hot pursuit in Truro this afternoon. A man cycled at speed through the doors of the Halfords store on St Austell Street and took off...
View ArticleWoman swung meat cleaver
A MEAT cleaver was used by a 55-year-old woman to threaten her husband at a cottage in Camelford.Amanda Aston, of no fixed abode, had originally denied common assault but she changed her plea to guilty...
View ArticleWindow smashed
THE door window on the driver's side of a red Peuguot 306 was smashed while parked and unattended at West Park, Wadebridge between 10pm on Saturday, January 18 and 7am the following morning. Police are...
View ArticleDiesel fuel theft
POLICE are seeking any information or witnesses to the theft of 150 litres of diesel from a vehicle at Group Travel, Dunmere Road, Bodmin.The fuel, valued at £210, was taken between 3pm on January 17...
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