Woman on ABH charge

Wednesday, December 09, 2009, 20:47

A WOMAN has appeared in court accused of kicking a man three times in the groin.

Tanya Harris, aged 20, is charged with assaulting the man causing actual bodily harm in a city nightclub on August 29.

Harris, of Lincoln Avenue, Lipson, indicated 'no plea' to the charge in front of Plymouth magistrates.

Angela Furniss, prosecuting, said that the victim had to go to…

A TEENAGE girl who assaulted two police officers in Lostwithiel after drinking a litre of vodka has been given a suspended order of detention in a Young Offenders' Institution.

One of the officers vomited after being kicked and bitten by 18-year-old St Austell student Leander Tonkin.

He later described how it had been one of the worst and most violent incidents in his 22 years' police service.

Magistrates told Tonkin that she had shown…

TWO people have been arrested after an alleged assault on two police officers in Truro.

The alleged incident took place just after midnight on Wednesday when the two officers saw an argument between a man and a woman in Quay Street.

The officers – one male and one female - approached the couple and claim they were verbally abused.

When the police officers attempted to arrest the couple the male officer was allegedly kicked in the…

ANGRY because he had lost a ring, 26-year-old Matthew Mellow punched Anthony Inman and then kicked him hard in the groin, prosecutor Iain Leadbetter told Truro Crown Court.

Mellow, of Poltair Court, St Austell pleaded guilty on the day his trial was due to begin to assaulting Mr Inman, causing him actual bodily harm, on April 13 last.

Mr Leadbetter said that Mr Inman had been occupying a bedroom in the home of Mellow's partner when he was asked to help look…

A young woman kicked and bit two policemen who had tried to quiz her about shoplifting, a court has been told.

Anouska Sites, 21, of Killerton Close, Paignton, pleaded guilty to the attacks and the theft when she appeared before Torbay magistrates.

She was remanded in custody for the preparation of a pre-sentence report and is next due to appear in court in Torquay on October 13.

She was accused of assaulting PCs Daniel Jones and James Bower in…

A NEWQUAY man has been jailed after a row about noise coming from a friend's flat erupted into violence.

Jake Henderson, of Pentire Avenue, was handed a four-week sentence after pleading guilty to assault by beating at Bodmin Magistrates' Court on Thursday last week.

The 21-year-old had been downing alcoholic drink with Daniel Eva, 22, at Kinsman Estate in Bodmin on December 6 when Eva began arguing with his girlfriend. Prosecutor Jill Wilson told the…

March 9th, 2011

A man who got kicked in the testicles by a bullock has won a legal action against his employers.

Drover Patrick Lynch from Crubany in Co. Cavan took the case against Cavan Co-op Mart.

Drover Patrick Lynch was in a small single pen when a feisty limousin bullock delivered the short sharp shock.

It was a busy mart day back in October 2003 and the experienced drover ended up in Cavan Hospital suffering from trauma…