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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 on Ballafurt Road in Port Erin. However, he changed his plea after a pre-trial review had been held...

A paedophile who abused his victim for over a decade has been jailed for nine years. Joshua David Gray, aged 30, care of the Isle of Man Prison, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to two charges of indecent assault, two of gross indecency with a child under the age of 16 and two charges of rape. Gray’s victim was aged between six and seven when the indecent assaults first began and stopped when she bravely reported him to the police in January of this year when she was still only 16. Deemster Graeme Cook heard the indecent assault had begun as ’periodic sexual touching’. The first...

A paedophile who abused his victim for over a decade has been jailed for nine years. Joshua David Gray, aged 30, care of the Isle of Man Prison, has been sentenced after pleading guilty to two charges of indecent assault, two of gross indecency with a child under the age of 16 and two charges of rape. Gray’s victim was aged between six and seven when the indecent assaults first began and stopped when she bravely reported him to the police in January of this year when she was still only 16. Deemster Graeme Cook heard the indecent assault had begun as ’periodic sexual touching’. The first...