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"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis Just like you swore to me that you'd be true There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis But he's a liar and I'm not sure about you." -sang the late and wonderful Kirsty MacColl. The UK's Supreme Court annoyed the owner of a chip shop called the 'Happy Haddock' last week by holding that the £85 he had been charged for over-staying his welcome (by nearly an hour) in a privately owned car park had to be paid. He had...

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November 10, 2015, 9:42 am

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A MOTHER has told a cruelty trial that claims she abandoned and neglected her children were "lies and rubbish". The woman said that she had no idea that a babysitter and allegedly other men had sexually abused her daughters at the family home. The mother-of-seven told a jury at Plymouth Crown Court that she never worked as a prostitute. The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, allegedly neglected three daughters so badly that they were sexually abused by a string of men visiting the...

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November 11, 2015, 1:40 am

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A fantasist who claimed he was researching a spy novel when he tried to sell classified documents about nuclear submarines has had his jail term cut by top judges. Polish factory worker Marcin Andrzej Kostrzewa stole the papers from his neighbour and then offered to sell them to his own country's embassy. He then met with an undercover agent, posing as an embassy employee, and demanded £50,000 for the documents, which were marked 'restricted'. When arrested, the 32-year-old, of Compton...

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November 11, 2015, 3:03 am

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A Plymouth shop manager has offered to resign after a rare bicyle which was shackled to a wooden block and a sink was stolen from a shop window on Plymouth's busiest city centre road. The Pashley bike, which has no seat, brakes or chain, was part of a display in the window of Bathroom Village in Exeter Street. Somehow the bike, which was attached to a large wooden block and a basin, was stolen from the shop at the end of Saturday, October 31. The manager of the shop, which opened in July, was...

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November 11, 2015, 3:50 am

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A HEAD shop whose sale of legal highs has drawn the ire of the authorities will re-open after police failed to prove it was the cause of antisocial behaviour in Plymouth city centre. The Dam Good Head Shop in Ebrington Street was temporarily shut by police who issued a 48 hours closure notice on October 28 under the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014. The following day magistrates said the shop would remain closed for two weeks ahead of a full hearing. On Tuesday, at Plymouth...

Drugged-up driver swerved and crashed friend's car in Plymouth

November 11, 2015, 5:38 am

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A DRUGGED-UP driver took a friend's car and swerved across the road before crashing, a court heard. Heroin addict Terry Moules, aged 39, took a cocktail of drugs before grabbing the keys of the Ford Fiesta, Plymouth magistrates were told. The unlicensed driver was spotted swerving across the road and hit a kerb knocking the wheel out of alignment. His solicitor called it a "moment of madness" and said Moules could not even recall where he was going. Magistrates jailed him for a total of 16 weeks...

Plymouth man charged with sexual abuse of girl

November 11, 2015, 5:47 am

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A MAN has appeared in court accused of attempting to rape and indecently assaulting a girl more than 20 years ago. Phillip Hartill, aged 55, faced Plymouth magistrates to answer five charges. He allegedly attempted to rape a girl aged under 16 between December 1990 and November 1993. Hartill, of Langley Crescent, Southway, also faces four counts of indecently assaulting the same girl between 1987 and 1993. Magistrates sent the case straight to Plymouth Crown Court with no indication of any...

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November 11, 2015, 11:06 am

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A MAN was left with a fractured jaw, cheekbone and nose after he and his wife were attacked by a group of thugs in fancy dress. The man, aged 38, was with his wife, also aged 38, in Regents Street at its junction with Hampton Street in the Greenbank area at around 1am on Saturday October 31. They fell into an altercation with a group of men dressed in fancy dress whereupon he was punched to the face causing him to fall to the floor unconscious. He suffered a number of serious injuries...

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Attempted murder charge

November 11, 2015, 10:45 pm

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A FORMER soldier from near Torpoint is being prosecuted for the attempted murder of a man with learning difficulties in Northern Ireland in 1974.John Pat Cunningham, 27, who reputedly had an inherent fear of men in uniform, had the mental age of a child between six and 10, and was shot dead as he ran from an Army patrol.Retired soldier Dennis Hutchings, 74, is being prosecuted by the Public Prosecution Service for attempted murder.Two years ago the Government apologised for Mr Cunningham's death...

Does drugs bust signal return of cannabis gangs?

November 11, 2015, 10:45 pm

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VIETNAMESE crime gangs who build cannabis factories in unassuming homes may have returned to Plymouth after a three-year absence.Acting on information from locals, police carried out a Misuse of Drugs Act warrant at a property in Dixon Place, Stoke at around 9am on Monday.Once inside officers found a total of 406 cannabis plants – 92 1m tall plants in one room, 44 similar sized plants in a second, 43 1m plants in a third and in the attic a further 89 1m plants were found.The basement held...

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November 12, 2015, 3:45 am

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A RETIRED dockyard worker stabbed his wife to death in their Plymouth home before attempting to take his own life, an inquest has heard. In what was described by the coroner as "an extremely unusual case" which may never be fully explained, 79-year-old Ted Perring attacked wife Gloria, 76, while she was in the bedroom of their Tamerton Foliot home, before trying to cut himself and overdosing on alcohol and prescription pills. Neighbours found Mr Perring unconscious in the lounge as his wife lay...

Mum faces jail for allowing men to abuse girls at Plymouth home

November 12, 2015, 8:48 am

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A CRUEL mum faces jail after she was found guilty of allowing a string of men to sexually abuse three of her daughters. The 71-year-old grandmother worked as a prostitute while babysitters and clients indecently assaulted the girls, a jury decided. She was also convicted of locking her daughters in their room for hours or even days at a time with nothing to eat and drink and only a bucket for a toilet. The girls told Plymouth Crown Court they were sometimes force to drink their own urine and...

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November 12, 2015, 10:46 am

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A WOMAN driven to attempt suicide after she was indecently touched by her stepfather has bravely spoken out to help other victims of sexual abuse to come forward. Leyna Tucker, aged 46, faced her tormentor across a courtroom three decades after he destroyed her childhood. She left smiling after the man she branded "evil and sadistic" was sentenced to four years in jail. Andrew Fulcher, 64, was convicted by a jury of eight counts of indecent assault against Leyna and another girl between 1980 and...

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November 13, 2015, 1:27 am

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Thieves are smashing their way into ticket machines at pay and display car parks across South Devon. Police say multiple pay and display machines have been badly damaged at sites across the area. More than £4,000 worth of damage has been done to machines in car parks in the South Hams. And police say the attacks appear to be part of wider criminal activity, linked to incidents in car parks across Devon. Councillor Hilary Bastone, of South Hams District Council said: "The machines will...

Dopey driver jailed for naming dead man as Plymouth speeder

November 13, 2015, 6:04 am

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A DOPEY driver caught speeding has been jailed for nominating another man as the offender – even though he had been DEAD for months. Sheep farmer Andrew Evans, aged 48, tried to pull the wool over the eyes of police by nominating his neighbour Ben Hughes as the man behind the wheel. He even claimed he handed over the keys to his Skoda days before he was clocked by a camera in a busy city street. But officers found that Mr Hughes had passed away four and a half months before the offence,...

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November 13, 2015, 7:53 am

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AN ANGRY thug smashed a car windscreen with a baseball bat and spat in a woman's face as a family row boiled over in the street. Lee Jones, aged 28, has been jailed for what a judge called a "very unpleasant and frightening" incident. He started waving the bat around in the street in an argument between his stepson and his partner – which attracted members of both their families. Jones spat in the woman's face after he smashed the windscreen of her father's Vauxhall Corsa, Plymouth Crown...

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November 13, 2015, 8:03 am

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A MAN caught with cannabis worth £15,000 has been jailed for his second offence of drug dealing. Christopher Collier, aged 23, told police he was looking after 1.5k of cannabis which had been delivered to him packed into two tyres. Collier was 'babysitting' the stash to settle his own drugs debt, Plymouth Crown Court heard. He was in breach of a suspended prison sentence imposed last year for dealing cannabis. Jailing him for a total of 17 months for both offences, Recorder Stephen Parish...

Man sneaked into store staffroom to steal computer in Plymouth

November 13, 2015, 8:23 am

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A MAN sneaked into a staffroom and stole an iPad from a supermarket. Peter Smith, aged 47, pleaded guilty before Plymouth magistrates to burglary of the Co-op in Hoegate Street. He took the tablet computer worth £280 on October 14. Magistrates ruled that the case was so serious that Smith should be sentenced at Plymouth Crown Court. Smith, of Francis Street, Stonehouse, was remanded into custody to appear before a judge on November 27. The bench refused him his liberty because of his...

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November 13, 2015, 9:02 am

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ASSAULT: ROBERT BENNETT, aged 42, of Laira Avenue, Plymouth: assaulting a woman by beating – 12-month community order with Rehabilitation Activity Requirement, ordered to pay £150 criminal courts charge, £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge. JOHN PHAIR, aged 52, of River View Lane, Prince Rock: assaulting a man by beating, ordered to pay £400 compensation, £150 criminal courts charge and £80 victim surcharge. ASHLEY WYATT, aged 26, of Clowance Lane,...

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November 13, 2015, 9:13 am

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WHILE the office party season gears up for boozy celebrations and mistletoe kisses, police are warning men and women to beware putting themselves at risk of rape, either as victim or as the accused. Detectives from the Sexual Offences and Domestic Abuse Team (SODAT) say many cases come to light in the wake of Christmas parties, where people drink to excess at home as well as in the city's pubs and clubs. Det Sgt Rich Jones, of Plymouth's SODAT, said many people see the festive season enjoy...