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A university employee was prosecuted under an archaic law against "wanton or furious driving" following a collision at about 15mph.The law, dating back to 1861, was introduced in Victorian times to deter people from driving horse carriages recklessly.It was used in the case of university technician Iain Harber this week because a Crown Prosecution lawyer was unsure whether the road where the accident happened – on Loughborough University's campus – was a private or a public...

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July 19, 2015, 9:19 am

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A student jailed for eight months for a nightclub punch-up rudely shouted "F*** you" to the judge as he was escorted to the cells.Judge Simon Hammond had earlier praised the mechanical engineering undergraduate, Dean Brogan, for trying to better himself at university.After sentencing he said: "I hope the university will give him the chance to resume his course."Brogan appeared shocked on learning his fate and paced the dock holding his head in his hands.The 20-year-old then...

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July 20, 2015, 12:04 am

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A trickster masqueraded as a professional photographer when offering two 15-year-old girls £40,000 contracts to pose for pornographic pictures.Matthew Smith (33) sought to persuade would-be victims with a bogus Facebook account portraying himself as a successful lensman.He also approached teenage girls in a Leicester branch of McDonald's and asked them to pose in his "studio" – which did not exist – after showing them pornographic images.Smith used other people's...

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July 20, 2015, 3:57 am

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A violent bully who subjected his partner to a "campaign of violent intimidation," including threats to chop her body up, was jailed for four years and two months.John Clay, 51, repeatedly beat the victim with his fists or mobility stick causing a catalogue of injuries, including split lips and bruising to her face and eyes.The attacks began within weeks of the 46-year-old giving up her home to move in with him at Allexton Gardens, New Parks, Leicester, and escalated to an almost daily...

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July 20, 2015, 10:10 pm

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The prosecution accepted Melody Cassan's plea to manslaughter instead of murder because there was no evidence to contradict her account.All the evidence against Cassan was by her own voluntary confession.In her police interview in February last year, she said the father of her baby was Alec Bradshaw, who died about 10 years ago.Cassan was 15 when she had the baby and, struggled from the start with his crying.Read: Teen mum who killed her baby kept tragic truth about his death secret for 52...

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July 20, 2015, 10:10 pm

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As Melody Cassan nurtured her three children as they grew up, she was distressed by the secret knowledge they had been deprived of an older brother.Her barrister, Rachel Brand QC, said in mitigation: "She watched her subsequent children toddling, reaching school age and becoming adults."All the time she was thinking 'you should have had a big brother'.Read: Teen mum who killed her baby kept tragic truth about his death secret for 52 yearsRead: Heartbreaking tale of how the caring teen...

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July 22, 2015, 11:41 am

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A judge jailed a pensioner for downloading more than 9,000 indecent images of youngsters in the "worst case of child pornography" he has dealt with.Alan Ramsay, 68, a former foster carer, became obsessed with the illegal pictures and movie clips, amassing a collection "like it was a game."Eighty four per cent of the images featured girls under 13-years-old.Jailing Ramsay for two years, Judge Simon Hammond said: "This is the worst case of child pornography I've ever come...

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July 23, 2015, 3:59 am

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A drunken middle-aged man who sexually molested a 17-year-old girl in his flat was jailed for 10 months.Rangzeb Khan, 55, who was known to have "open house" for young people to visit, lied to the police after his arrest.He falsely claimed the teenager had encouraged him to sexually touch her by guiding his hand onto her body.At Leicester Crown Court he admitted sexually assaulting the victim, who was sitting on a chair in the dimly lit lounge, listening to music.Other teenagers were...

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July 23, 2015, 4:07 am

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A carer sneakily took a bank card from a vulnerable resident's house and gave it to an acquaintance to fraudulently buy electrical goods, a court heard.Charly Ngampiep, 28, and Dontien Wouafo, 42, denied acting dishonestly, but a jury convicted them of jointly committing two frauds, involving obtaining £700 worth of items from Currys and Maplin stores, on September 22, 2013.Leicester Crown Court was told that Ngampiep was a carer for Lifeline Community Care whose duties included home...

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July 23, 2015, 10:15 pm

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People were injured when an inflatable slide at a major Scouting event was ripped from the ground during a freak hailstorm.Several children were flung from the attraction, with one eight-year-old boy having to be airlifted to hospital. A Scout leader was trapped when the half-ton slide fell on top of her.About 2,000 Scouts watched in horror as inflatables were tossed about by gusts of 60mph at the Cumbaree event, in Cumbria.Yesterday, owner of the slide Martin Robert Hyman Chadwick, of...

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July 24, 2015, 2:26 am

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A drunken man who terrified a neighbour's family by shouting threats through their kitchen window, when armed with a knife, was jailed for 12 months.Alan Stephen Dear, 33, earlier exchanged words with the householder in the street, before bizarrely self-harming with a penknife, cutting his own neck and abdomen, outside his home in Willow Crescent, Oakham.His mother took the penknife off him, but he then took a cutlery knife around to his neighbour, who was having an early evening meal with his...

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July 24, 2015, 2:50 am

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A young man caught with a four kilo haul of cannabis worth more than £50,000 on the streets was jailed for 18 months.Stefan Simpraga, 21, was looking after the stash on behalf of his supplier, and was in the process of bagging it up into small deals when the police raided his home.Simpraga, of Armadale Drive, Netherhall, Leicester, ran off but was detained in a nearby street, on February 25.Paul Prior, prosecuting, told the city's crown court that three kilos were in three vacuum packed...

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July 25, 2015, 5:29 am

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A Pakistani man convicted of being part of a Leicester sham marriage gang has been cleared of any wrongdoing by top judges.Syed Mehtab always maintained he did not know his ex-wife, Kubrah Saiyed, was involved in a bogus marriage ring, and that - as far as he was concerned - their union was genuine.Despite insisting he was an innocent dupe, he was found guilty of being involved in the wider plot and jailed for 12 months at Leicester Crown Court in January.But the 36-year-old has now been...

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July 25, 2015, 6:39 am

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Terry Mcarthy (34), of Clover Way, Syston, pleaded guilty to fishing or taking fish in the River Soar, Sileby, on February 2 otherwise than in accordance with a licence. He was fined £130, with a £20 victim surcharge and £127 costs.Mark Ryan (24), of Churchill Road, Mountsorrel, was proven guilty in absence of fishing for coarse fish in the River Soar, Mountsorrel, in the close season on March 17. He was fined £200, with a £20 victim surcharge and £127...

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July 28, 2015, 10:22 pm

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A thief with 63 previous convictions avoided a prison sentence after his barrister urged a judge to give him "one last chance."Drug addict Shaun Anthony Tully, admitted two thefts at the Coast to Coast restaurant, in Highcross, two thefts from Boots, in Gallowtree Gate, and also shoplifting from a city Sainsbury's store, at Leicester Crown Court.His criminal record of 63 offences were mainly theft related, the court was told.His barrister Michelle Harding urged Recorder Geoffrey Kelly...

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July 28, 2015, 10:31 pm

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A dangerous driver involved in a police chase around residential streets was finally caught hiding in a garden, a court heard.Fahad Ali, 19, who had no insurance or a driving licence, ignored signals to stop when officers spotted him at the wheel of a black Ford Focus in Gipsy Lane, Northfields, Leicester, at 4.45pm on June 6 last year.Victoria Rose, prosecuting, said the chase continued into Humberstone and Thurmaston, at speeds of up to 64 mph in 30 mph areas.Ali went through several red...

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July 29, 2015, 10:03 am

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The jury in the murder trial of two men accused of mistakenly shooting dead a woman have retired to consider their verdicts.Aaron Newman and Aaron Power are accused of lying in wait under the cover of darkness outside the home of their intended target, Nigel Barwell, in Sunnydale Road, Hinckley.The prosecution claim that Mr Barwell was involved in criminal gangs in the Coventry and the West Midlands.It is alleged his girlfriend, Hayley Pointon, was accidentally killed instead of him, on the...

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July 29, 2015, 10:20 pm

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A mystery woman heroically stood between a knifeman and his would-be victim as he branded the 10-inch weapon in the city centre.The woman, who has never been traced, twice got between assailant Miles James Leader and the man he was attempting to strike.The shocking incident, caught on CCTV, happened in Silver Street, Leicester City Centre, at 5.30am on Sunday May 10 this year.Leader (21) of Brazil Street, Leicester, admitted causing and affray and possessing a knife, with a 10-inch blade, in a...

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July 30, 2015, 4:28 am

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A man, who stole a leather jacket from a city centre clothing store before urinating on the floor and running around outside waving his penis around, has been conditionally discharged for a year.Michael McNulty (29) of Norfolk Street, Leicester, pleaded guilty in Leicester Magistrates' Court to charges of theft, criminal damage and two counts of outraging public decency in and outside the Highcross shopping centre, on June 19 2015.Prosecutor Sally-Ann Flemmings-Danquah told the magistrates that...

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July 30, 2015, 5:25 am

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A benefit fraudster lied on an employment support allowance claim form to conceal having £80,000 in her bank account, a court heard.Renaz Adam (40) falsely declared having less than £2,500 in savings, which was well below the £16,000 threshold allowed.She pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation, by dishonestly pocketing £6,409 she was not entitled to, between April 2013 and July 2014. Adam, of Highway Road, Stoneygate, Leicester, was given a 12 month community...