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October 12, 2015, 8:10 am

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THE man who murdered Plymouth Argyle youth footballer Alex Peguero Sosa with a broken bottle is appealing against his sentence.Lee Dent was given a life sentence with a minimum of 22 years for stabbing the 17-year-old.He had denied murdering the promising rising star during a late-night confrontation and is set to appear before the Court of Appeal on Wednesday in a bid to reduce his sentence.The 42-year-old was sent down at Plymouth Crown Court in March. The court heard Dent used a racist term...

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October 12, 2015, 8:18 am

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COMPUTER users in Devon are being warned about the latest scam involving fake Microsoft call centres which has seen some victims duped out of thousands of pounds.Computer Software Service Fraud, also known as the Microsoft Tech Scam, relates to predominantly Indian call centres cold calling victims claiming to be from legitimate businesses, such as Microsoft.The caller claims there is an issue with the victim's computer, which they say they will fix for a fee.Typical losses are around...

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October 12, 2015, 8:35 am

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A SON allegedly left the dead body of his mother on the sofa of her Barnstaple home for two weeks while he fled to London with her bank card.Charles Davison claimed he was an MI5 agent and that the dead woman was a Russian spy after he was arrested a fortnight after his mother Jane was killed, a jury have been told.The body of 59-year-old Jane was found by a care worker partially covered by a purple blanket when she checked her flat in Barnstaple two weeks after she was last seen alive.Her son...

Ilfracombe pensioner cleared of abusing young girls at Exeter...

October 13, 2015, 5:30 am

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A pensioner has been cleared of abusing three young girls in North Devon after telling a jury he was at work when the alleged assaults took place.Nicholas Barbeary was acquitted after telling Exeter Crown Court there was no truth in the complaints by the three women that he abused them while visiting their homes in Ilfracombe in the early 2000s.He denied grooming the girls, aged ten to 16, or giving them money to ensure their compliance.Barbeary, 66, was found not guilty at the end of a week...

Murder trial told how care worker found woman allegedly killed by...

October 13, 2015, 6:40 am

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A CARE worker has told a murder trial how she found a frail client dead in her home after becoming worried about her welfare.Irene Thorne found the decomposing body of Jane Davison two weeks after she was allegedly stabbed and killed by her son Charles at her flat in Barnstaple. Petite Mrs Davison was so small that when she first entered the flat Mrs Thorne mistook the body for two cushions because it was covered by a rug on a sofa.Mrs Davison, 59, was being looked after by a care organisation...

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October 13, 2015, 7:19 am

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Barnstaple police have released shocking CCTV footage which shows the moment Andrew Mason was knocked unconscious in Fever nightclub by Maxwell Banbury.The video, released exclusively to the Journal, shows Mr Mason enter the centre of the frame from the bar area before Banbury walks up to him, punches him in the head and then returns to his table to finish his drink before making a quick exit from the nightclub.Watch the video here:The single punch knocked Mr Mason unconscious and left him in a...

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October 13, 2015, 7:32 am

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THE vast majority of Journal readers think cannabis should be legalised, according to a North Devon Journal poll.Out of 426 readers who took the time to vote yes or no to the question "should cannabis be legalised?", a whopping 80% said yes. The Journal opened the poll yesterday morning, to coincide with the debate in parliament on the legalisation of the production, sale and use of cannabis yesterday.This was brought about by an online petition which drew 220,000 signatures. This made...

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October 13, 2015, 8:29 am

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A BINGE-DRINKING teen has been jailed for attacking a charity runner with a stolen beer bottle as he jogged down a busy Devon seafront. Kai Webb had downed a bottle of vodka with friends and stolen Budweiser from a convenience store before he set on fundraiser David Reynolds near Teignmouth Pier. Mr Reynolds was on the 21st of 100 ten kilometre runs with his partner Eve Hazelton, who wore a different fancy dress for a year to raise £30,000 for the breast cancer charity Coppafeel. The...

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October 14, 2015, 3:37 am

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A GROUNDBREAKING new video campaign aims to tack the viewing and sharing of indecent images of children by focusing on the stories of the offenders. The videos make for uncomfortable viewing. They include testimony from paedophiles convicted of viewing child porn and common excuses used by offenders to justify their behaviour. This comes as the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) reveals the abhorrent activity has significantly increased in the UK. The CEOP said is...

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October 14, 2015, 5:29 am

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A SON who was accused of killing his mother told police he had attacked her during an argument but left her alive in her North Devon flat.Big Issue seller Charles Davison admitted punching his mother Valerie Jane but told officers he had not stabbed her or killed her.A jury at Exeter Crown Court were read interviews which Davison gave to police after his arrest in November last year in which he denied murder.He also insisted the dead woman was not his mother but a woman who looked like her. He...

Parents of murdered girl say police should be 'embarrassed' by...

October 14, 2015, 6:30 am

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The parents of murdered Georgia Williams say the police should be "embarrassed" by a damning Devon and Cornwall review, which they say is only "half the story".Steve Williams and his wife Lynnette have called for Devon and Cornwall Police's report into the conduct of West Mercia Police officers to be made public.Sitting alongside West Mercia Police's Chief Constable David Shaw, Steve said: "It should be released because it gives all the answers to the questions that...

Fred and Rose West's pub managers guilty of raping children in...

October 15, 2015, 2:20 am

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A COUPLE who ran a pub owned by North Devon-born serial killer Rose West and her husband Fred have been found guilty of a 15-year campaign in which they terrorised and abused 10 children.David and Pauline Williams became friends of the Wests when they lived close to their notorious home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, in the 1980s and 90s.They became prolific child abusers in their own right, subjecting six girls and four boys to horrific campaigns of rapes, sexual assaults and beatings.David...

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October 15, 2015, 8:49 am

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ARMED police were called out to a major operation in a Devon housing estate - which turned out to be a hoax.Police officers in Exeter locked down part of the neighbourhood in Wonford, Exeter, near the junction of Burnthouse Lane and Rifford Road after a 999 call reported a stabbing and possible murder.Along with the armed response unit two other police cars raced to the Wonford Community Centre which had just been celebrating Britain in Bloom success with a cream tea.But the drama and the huge...

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October 15, 2015, 8:50 am

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A MUGGER has been warned he faces jail after he admitted snatching a bag from a 64-year-old woman in Barnstaple's Pannier market.Michael Stevens, 26, pulled victim Frances Ford to the ground and knocked over another woman in her 90s as he fled the scene.Mrs Ford was out shopping with her husband at the Pannier Market when Stevens snatched her purse and she was pulled to the ground as she struggled to stop him getting away.Stevens, of Hatchmoor, Torrington, admitted robbing Mrs Ford of a purse,...

Bideford addicts who sold heroin to undercover policeman admit...

October 15, 2015, 9:11 am

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A GROUP of drug users have admitted street dealing after being caught in a police undercover sting operation in Bideford.Katrina Trott, Marcel Hopkins, David Gibbs and Michael Branch were all arrested after selling heroin to an undercover police officer who posed as a heroin addict in Bideford.They all admitted supplying drugs when they appeared at preliminary hearings at Exeter Crown Court.Trott, 30, of Bideford, appeared by video link from Eastwood Park Prison and admitted four offences of...

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October 15, 2015, 11:04 pm

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THIS is the husband and wife who ran a pub owned by North Devon-born serial killer Rose West and her husband Fred, who were themselves this week convicted of a 15-year child abuse campaign.David and Pauline Williams became friends of the Wests when they lived close to their notorious home in Cromwell Street, Gloucester, in the 1980s and 90s.They became prolific child abusers in their own right, subjecting six girls and four boys to horrific campaigns of terror, rapes, sexual assaults and...

Mum in court for slapping her daughter, 8, in Devon street

October 16, 2015, 2:15 am

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A DEVON woman has landed in court for slapping her eight-year-old daughter in the street.A witness observed the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons but was in her thirties, walking with two children in the street and was said to have become "concerned by the manner of the situation".The woman has pleaded guilty to assaulting her child in Torquay in May this year.Her daughter was said to have tried to run after a younger sibling, Magistrates in Torquay heard.The strike had...

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October 16, 2015, 4:05 am

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Police have released a second video of an interview with murder suspect Shauna Hoare who, together with her boyfriend Nathan Matthews, are accused of murdering the 16-year-old Becky Watts at her home in St George. It is also alleged the couple dismembered Becky's body. During the course of the three minute interview Hoare is questioned about her involvement in searches for Becky. Matthews, 28, of Hazelbury Drive, Warmley and his girlfriend Hoare, also known by the surname Phillips, 21, of...

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October 16, 2015, 9:03 am

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A FUGITIVE has been jailed after he used an elderly pedestrian in an invalid buggy as a human shield to fend off police as they tried to arrest him in Bideford.Anthony Holmes fled from two officers through the centre of the town with one handcuff on his wrist and sprayed police with their own incapacitant spray as they struggled to hold him.He was arrested in the High Street in Bideford after being released early from a 25-week sentence for shoplifting and breaking his licence by failing to keep...

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October 16, 2015, 9:05 am

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A BINGE drinker carried out a bizarre sex attack on a complete stranger after they both collapsed in the same street at the same time.Benjamin Colley lay down next to the unconscious 18-year-old boy and started taking off his clothes after they had both been taken to a nearby house by friends.Colley did not know the victim but the people who took the two men home did not realise it and so left them together to sleep off their alcoholic stupors.They were horrified when they went to check them...