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sundayworld.com | Paul Higgins
WALKS FREE | Defence counsel Joel Lindsay said that the outbreak of Covid-19 had stopped Kidd’s businessThe judge told him: “I do not expect you to be back before the court again” (stock image)Lisburn Magistrates' CourtToday at 21:18A window cleaner who received more than €8k in a fraudulent claim for Universal Credit has walked free from court after receiving a suspended prison sentence.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
A window cleaner who received more than £7,000 in a fraudulent claim for Universal Credit has walked free from court after receiving a suspended prison sentence. Jackie Kidd, from Hamilton Gardens in Lisburn, previously entered a guilty plea to a single charge of benefit fraud in that between April 2, 2020, and August 1, 2024, he made a fraudulent claim for Universal Credit.
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independent.ie | Paul Higgins
He is due to appear at Armagh Magistrates Court, sitting in Newry, on May 6. In November last year, the Armagh GAA team travelled to Miami in Florida to celebrate the team's All-Ireland win, their first All-Ireland title in 22 years after they clinched victory over Galway at Croke Park in July.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Man (30) charged with alleged sexual assault linked to Armagh GAA trip to the US The five-star Eden Roc Hotel in Miami. A Belfast solicitor has expressed his “shock” at a PSNI decision to prosecute a 30-year-old for sexual assault. “I am shocked by the decision of the PSNI to charge my client in relation to an incident that occurred outside the jurisdiction last year,” solicitor Patrick Higgins of law firm Donnelly and Wall declared today.
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sundayworld.com | Paul Higgins
During an update in the case against Thinira Liyanage, a prosecuting lawyer told Coleraine Magistrates’ Court that a triage and examination of the defendant’s mobile phone had identified “more than 200,000 images which need to be processed”. Defence solicitor Derwin Harvey emphasised that “I suspect the majority” of the images may relate to the 36-year-old’s work as a computer programmer, adding that Liyanage is “anxious to enter a plea and dispose of the matter”.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Creep simulated sex act as he ogled woman swimming at Helen’s BayPervert (65) handed suspended sentence for outraging public decencyA pervert who simulated a sex act on a beach while staring at a woman as she swam in the sea has been handed a suspended sentence. An off-duty police officer, her friends and their children were walking along the coastal path towards Helen’s Bay on October 26 last year when she saw Alister Paul Davidson (65) standing on the beach, “watching something in the sea”.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Co Armagh thug admits punching partner in the faceBully has lengthy list of previous convictionsThis is the Portadown thug who has admitted causing actual bodily harm to his partner after he repeatedly punched her to the face when she asked him if he was texting other women. At Craigavon Crown Court on Tuesday, Barry Madden (30) was re-arraigned on four of the 11 charges against him, to each of which he entered guilty pleas.
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Postmaster accused of flashing on Portstewart promenade gives up jobChurch secretary accused of exposing himself told by judge he’s ‘excluded’ from coastal townSamuel Houston's case has sent shockwaves through PortstewartA postmaster and church secretary accused of exposing himself on Portstewart’s promenade has signed his business over.
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2 weeks ago | 
belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
Church secretary accused of exposing himself told by judge he’s ‘excluded’ from coastal townA postmaster and church secretary accused of exposing himself on Portstewart’s promenade has signed his business over. District Judge Peter King told Samuel Houston that now he is no longer the local postmaster, he has no reason to be in the coastal town “he is excluded from Portstewart.” Join the Belfast Telegraph WhatsApp channel Stay up to date with some of Northern Ireland's biggest stories
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belfasttelegraph.co.uk | Paul Higgins
A woman who was high on a cocktail of drugs when she led police on a 100mph cross-border pursuit, even when one of her tyres had blown out, was today ordered to complete a two-year probation program. Sentencing Charlotte Spence at Newry Crown Court, Judge Paul Ramsey KC said it was “a mercy that no one was badly injured” as a result of the 35-year-old’s “prolonged piece of bad driving.”
