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A homeless teenager was found with more than £2,000 of fake banknotes after being arrested for threatening to smash windows in Barnstaple.
Kaitlyn Parker lost her temper after she was evicted from the home of a friend who had taken her in temporarily during the first lockdown.
Police found her on the pavement outside the house, shouting threats at the owner, and surrounded by plastic bags, one of which contained the counterfeit cash.
She told police that she had no intention of using it because it was printed on copier paper and could not me mistaken for the new-style plasticated notes.
A nostalgic visit to a village pub which their family used to run ended in a brawl after one of three brothers went into the wrong toilet. Wayne, Martin and Keegan Lloyd were all returning to the Star Inn at Liverton, Devon, from their homes in Cornwall when a petty argument led to the trouble breaking out. The pub had been redesigned since their father had run it and Wayne accidentally went into the wrong toilet and then pushed a member of bar staff who remonstrated with him after he came out. Wayne left the pub briefly and returned to apologise but his two brothers took up the argument. A brawl broke out despite Wayne’s attempts to calm them down and a member of staff was hurt in the melee.
He has convictions for 92 offences including 19 for burglaries of homes and shops.
Phillip Matthews was spared jail for his burglary of The Cove in Barnstaple
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Matthews, aged 36, of no fixed abode, admitted burglary and was jailed for eight months, suspended for two years, and ordered to pay £300 compensation by Judge Timothy Rose at Exeter Crown Court.
He told him he was not sending him straight to jail because he has succeeded in addressing his drug problem and staying out of trouble during a six month deferment of sentence.
Nick Lewin, prosecuting, told an earlier hearing that Matthews broke the glass front of the shop on the night of February 1 this year and ransacked it, stealing money, an iPad, charity boxes and stock worth more than £1,000.
Moment Exeter road rage driver ploughed into police officer caught on camera
Footage - which some people may find distressing - of the incident in the car park at Sainsbury s has been released
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