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A WOMAN has gone on trial in the Royal Court for allegedly lying about living alone in order to receive £83,000 of income support payments she was not entitled to – with her social-media posts being used as part of the prosecution’s evidence. Ge...

A 43-YEAR-OLD woman who stole more than £16,000 from her grandmother who had dementia has been given an 18-month suspended sentence – and ordered to pay the money back. Carla Allo, a mother of four, was told she was guilty of “a callous and s...

A MAN who viewed indecent cartoons of pre-pubescent children for a second time has been sentenced to 160 hours of community service.The Royal Court heard yesterday that 30-year-old Daniel Thomas Leigh had viewed 55 cartoon images of male and female c...

A 21-YEAR-OLD man who brandished a kitchen knife and hammer, threatened to kill a teenager, assaulted a woman, resisted arrest and admitted a string of traffic offences has been spared prison.Tristan Grihault was told yesterday that Jurats of the Roy...

A 64-YEAR-OLD man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for the

A 28-YEAR-OLD woman who smashed a full wine bottle over another woman’s head, banged her head against a fridge freezer and threatened to stab her with a fork has been jailed for 18 months.The Royal Court heard that Chloe Jordan Allen, who was said ...

A MAN placed on the Sex Offenders Register after intending to humiliate a public servant in the course of her duties has been removed early from the list.In what the Royal Court described as an ‘unusual’ application – because the individual, wh...

A 20-YEAR-OLD man who pushed a woman down a flight of stairs has been spared prison.Bradley Robert James Withe was sentenced to 200 hours of community service – but told that if he had been older he would now be starting a custodial sentence.The Ro...

A CIDER-MAKING couple, who recently starred in a national television series, have been given permission to open their St Ouen restaurant on certain evenings for six months of the year.The Royal Court decided to allow Richard and Sarah Matlock to open...

A MAN jailed for two years and nine months for grave and criminal assault has lost an appeal against his conviction in spite of the fact that the jury was ‘not properly directed’ at his trial last year.Jake Marly Robertson was found guilty follow...