A DRUG dealer took up the illegal enterprise after losing his job due to the coronavirus pandemic, a court has heard. Father-of-two Oliver Bates was rumbled by police last summer after they executed a search warrant at his then home. After discovering bags of cannabis destined for the streets, along with more than £500 in cash and drug paraphernalia, the 28-year-old made a ‘full and frank’ admission. He was hauled before Liverpool Crown Court to learn his fate, but he was told that he would not be heading to prison on this occasion. Prosecutor Alaric Walmsley explained to the court how Bates was present when police raided a property on Gorsey Lane in Padgate at 1.30pm on August 19.
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Fantasy: The defendant invented a drink spiking claim to save his girlfriend from prosecution A WEST Cumbrian man falsely told police he spiked his girlfriend s drink in a futile bid to save her from prosecution for a minor assault. At Carlisle Crown Court today, a judge was told that the attempt to keep his partner out of court backfired spectacularly for 36-year-old Lee Cunningham, who was then himself arrested and charged with a far more serious offence. He had to spend 41 days on a police imposed curfew. The defendant, of Chapel Terrace, Thornhill, Egremont, admitted perverting the course of justice.
Carlisle Crown Court
An Egremont man accused of encouraging his dog to âattackâ police officers who entered his home has gone on trial in front of a jury.
Tony Wardle, 51, was visited by a sergeant and three constables on August 18 last year as enquiries were made into an alleged incident the day before.
Wardle, of Lamb Court, is on trial at Carlisle Crown Court and denies two charges. One alleges he assaulted police sergeant Joanne Philip. A second alleges he was in charge of a dog which caused injury whilst dangerously out of control.
Video footage from a body-worn camera was played to a jury this morning and showed officers initially speaking to Wardle through an open downstairs window. âThe defendant was truculent, belligerent, confrontational and aggressive,â alleged prosecutor Alaric Walmsley, opening the case.