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Judge warns he may stop remanding suspects as Portadown child‑sex case stalled by phone forensics

'We have to do something about it. The courts only have one weapon which is to refuse to continue to remand. Warning is out there! The longer we accept delay the more entrenched it becomes'

The case of a Portadown man accused of sexually communicating with and inciting an online child decoy has been significantly delayed by forensic phone analysis, prompting a judge to warn he may stop remanding defendants if such hold‑ups continue....

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