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4 days ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
A Co Antrim woman was handed a suspended prison sentence today after a judge convicted her of stealing two adult toys from a Superdrug shop. In addition to the three month jail sentence which was suspended for a year, District Judge Nigel Broderick also ordered Laura Clarke to pay £21.98 compensation to Superdrug for the two “Lovehoney Excite toys” she stole.
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5 days ago | 
northernirelandworld.com | Paul Higgins
Two Co Antrim men have been remanded into custody accused of rioting in Ballymena. Called separately into the dock of Coleraine Magistrates Court, 26-year-old Ricky Rae and Philip Bradley Douglas (27), were both charged with rioting on June 10 this year. Douglas, from Waveney Mews in Ballymena, was further charged with burglary of a property on Clonavon Terrace “with intent to do unlawful damage to the building or anything therein”.
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5 days ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
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6 days ago | 
independent.ie | Paul Higgins
Judge tells ex-antique dealer, who allegedly threatened to set himself on fire, to stay away from flats where row startedA businessman doused himself in petrol and threatened to set himself ablaze during a property dispute with a neighbouring couple, a court has been told. Caspar Lund was charged with causing criminal damage to his neighbours’ door mat and carpet, threatening to damage their property and using disorderly behaviour at the Ulster Hospital after an incident on May 19 this year.
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6 days ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Judge tells ex-antique dealer, who allegedly threatened to set himself on fire, to stay away from flats where row startedA businessman doused himself in petrol and threatened to set himself ablaze during a property dispute with a neighbouring couple, a court has been told. Caspar Lund was charged with causing criminal damage to his neighbours’ door mat and carpet, threatening to damage their property and using disorderly behaviour at the Ulster Hospital after an incident on May 19 this year.
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1 week ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
NI pervert set up his paedophile friend with schoolgirl (13)Depraved duo set to be sentenced in SeptemberThis is the Co Down creep who arranged for his paedophile pal to meet a 13-year-old schoolgirl with whom he wanted to engage in sexual activity. At Craigavon Crown Court on Tuesday Niall Cullen, formerly from the Hillsborough Road in Carryduff, admitted that on April 23, 2023, he “arranged or facilitated the commission of an offence”.
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1 week ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Award-winning Indian restaurant voted ‘best in NI’ fined £2,000 for breaching food hygiene rules Newtownards Magistrates CourtAn award-winning Indian restaurant in Bangor has been fined £2,000 for breaching food hygiene regulations and failing to register as a business. Newtownards Magistrates Court heard that despite the owners of Shah 113 Ltd being written to, no one had attended the court where the business was charged with two offences.
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1 week ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Domestic abuser handed 11 months in prison but freed to mount appealA former soldier who spat in his ex-partner’s face during bouts of domestic abuse has been handed jail sentences totalling 11 months. Philip Currell was given an initial five-month prison term, but District Judge Nigel Broderick also activated a suspended six-month sentence for making threats to kill.
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1 week ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
A Larne man who runs an anti-immigration Facebook page has been remanded into custody after being accused of disseminating “sinister messages.”Refusing to grant bail to Nathan Gilbert Clifford, District Judge Peter King told the 32-year-old given the “ongoing disorder” where the homes of people in ethnic minority communities were being targeted, the messages he sent were “menacing and sinister.”
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2 weeks ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
This is the Ballymena man who police say was “shot in the testicles” with a plastic bullet during what has been described as “racially motivated thuggery” in the town. When Curtis Agnew Dunlop appeared in Coleraine Magistrates Court on Friday, a police officer said the 23-year-old had injuries “consistent with being struck” by an attenuating energy projectile, more commonly known as a plastic bullet.
