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By Advertiser Reporter File image of cocaine Picture: PA WIRE A CONSTRUCTION boss turned to selling cocaine to get by after a stand-in’s shoddy workmanship cost him his reputation. Daniel Littlechild, 54, was left unable to work after a shoulder injury – hiring a stand-in who bodged the job. Someone he met at his local pub suggested he help them shift drugs. He initially turned them down but a few weeks later took them up on their offer. When police raided his Corsham home on November 7, 2019, he had thousands of pounds-worth...

By Advertiser Reporter File image of cocaine Picture: PA WIRE A CONSTRUCTION boss turned to selling cocaine to get by after a stand-in’s shoddy workmanship cost him his reputation. Daniel Littlechild, 54, was left unable to work after a shoulder injury – hiring a stand-in who bodged the job. Someone he met at his local pub suggested he help them shift drugs. He initially turned them down but a few weeks later took them up on their offer. When police raided his Corsham home on November 7, 2019, he had thousands of pounds-worth...

By Advertiser Reporter Cannabis smoker who left OAP with gash on his head is found guilty of GBH JURORS took just 90 minutes to convict a man who claimed he had struck a man more than twice his age with a broom handle in self-defence. Aaran Draper, 31, told the jury he’d swung the broom at his 69-year-old neighbour to try at get him away from their garden fence. The pensioner had thrown dog biscuits, bird seed and a piece of wood after complaining of the younger man's cannabis use.  Swindon Crown Court heard the broom left an 18c...

By Advertiser Reporter Swindon Crown Court A SMOKER accused of striking a 69-year-old with a broom handle in a dispute prompted by his cannabis use accused a barrister of believing “bulls***”.  Aaran Draper claims he acted in self-defence when he swung the broom handle at his mother’s neighbour last July. The 31-year-old denies unlawful wounding.  Yesterday, jurors at Swindon Crown Court heard that Draper was in the garden of his mother’s home in The Wyncies, Bishopstone, smoking cannabis on July 19 last year.  Opening...

By Advertiser Reporter JAILED: Thief with 103 crimes to his name spat at policeman (and he can't remember doing it) A PROLIFIC shoplifter took a Co-op store assistant to the ground at spat at a police officer just four days after being given a suspended sentence. Nicholas Howard, who has been jailed for 48 weeks at Swindon Crown Court, also racially abused a special constable and tried to steal a £3 bottle of beer. The 41-year-old, who has 103 offences to his name, later told the probation service he’d rather have punched the po...