Stories By Tanya Fowles, Local Democracy Reporter
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Banbridge
/ 4 months agoMan who called police claiming he intended to self-harm avoids prison
A 58-year-old man who called police claiming he intended to self-harm when he was in fact drunk in a shed, has...
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Armagh
/ 4 months agoNo definitive account of last hours as truth dies with Katie and her killer
While CCTV and cell-site analysis showed Jonathan Creswell and Katie’s movements until they arrived home in the early hours of August...
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Dungannon
/ 4 months agoDespite seriousness of toddler ingesting cocaine, cruelty case to remain in lower court
Despite the seriousness of a child cruelty case in which a toddler was admitted to hospital following a seizure and found...
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News
/ 4 months agoFunds frozen in businessman’s account after elderly lady allegedly scammed
A judge has granted an application by Scottish police to freeze a quantity of funds currently held in a Dungannon businessman’s...
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Armagh
/ 4 months agoKatie Simpson murder: Health agencies pass enquiries around but still no answers
Health authorities contacted around concerns while murdered Katie Simpson was being treated in Altnagelvin Hospital, passed responsibility for answers to various...
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Tyrone
/ 4 months agoCourt urged to treat paedophile’s alleged child contact SOPO breach as ‘folly’
Lawyers for a convicted paedophile have been urged to treat a charge of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order (SOPO) by...
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Dungannon
/ 4 months agoAssailant who claimed woman liked being choked during rough sex returned for trial
A man accused of assaulting and choking a female claimed in court the bruises she presented to police with were because...
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Armagh
/ 5 months agoPPS will not appeal sentence for women who covered up for Katie Simpson murderer
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has confirmed the sentences imposed on three women who covered-up for the murderer of Tynan woman...
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Tyrone
/ 5 months agoCommittal papers ‘by December’ in DCI attempted murder case against ‘undue delay’ backdrop
Committal papers to transfer those charged in connection with the attempted murder of DCI John Caldwell for trial at Crown Court...
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Armagh
/ 5 months agoStark similarities between Jonathan Creswell and Jimmy Savile
With the legal proceedings into the murder of Tynan woman Katie Simpson at the hands of a violent and sexually abusive...
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Dungannon
/ 5 months agoRepeat offender already on two sets of bail when 90-year-old attacked, court hears
A Caledon man had been released on bail twice – for two separate sets of alleged offences – when he attacked a...
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Armagh
/ 5 months agoWomen who covered for Katie Simpson’s killer walk free from court
Three women who admitted their roles in covering for man who murdered Co Armagh woman, Katie Simpson, have walked free from...
