Friday, July 04, 2008   

Community Telegraph

Courts


Uproar after jury finds
man guilty in rape case

There was uproar in a Belfast court after a man was convicted of raping a sleeping woman.

One year sentence for ‘unprovoked attack’

A young man who was part of a group of males who launched “an unprovoked attack on respectable people on a night out” has been detained in a young offenders centre for a year.

Judge nearly hands
down life sentence
following crime spree

A father-of-three who embarked on a province-wide crime spree to pay off drug debts has narrowly avoided a life sentence.

Man guilty of claiming false benefits

A man was convicted at Belfast Magistrates Court last week for claiming benefits he was not entitled to.

Jury exemptions could be ‘swept away’ by changes

Far-reaching changes which would sweep away exemptions from doing jury service in Northern Ireland were proposed by the government last week.