Derek Michael Christopher News Today

News from the courts A 54-year-old man who assaulted his partner after a row over a marriage proposal has been jailed for four months. Derek Michael Christopher Bird, care of the prison, argued with the woman after he said he had decided not to propose as previously planned. He initially pleaded not guilty to a charge of common assault on a woman but on Thursday changed his plea to guilty. A second charge of provoking behaviour was dismissed after the Crown offered no evidence in light of t...

Marriage proposal gone wrong turns into drunken assault 54-year-old sentenced to four months in prison A planned wedding proposal escalated into a drunken argument which ended in an assault, a court’s heard. Fifty-four-year-old Derek Michael Christopher Bird, whose address was given as care of the Isle of Man Prison, appeared before magistrates at Douglas courthouse via a live video link. At a previous hearing, he’d pleaded not guilty to assaulting a woman on 29 July in her flat...