The courts in Essex have continued to process criminals this week. Some cases are more high-profile than others, with allegations of serious crimes, and confessions of others. This week has heard cases such as alleged racial harassment, robbery, rape and exposure. Here is a rundown of the key cases heard at crown and magistrates court this week.
Katie Jarvis Katie Jarvis faces charges of racially aggravated harassment, using threatening words or language and assault following a brawl on Marine Parade in Southend, outside the Papillon pub. Jarvis, 29, played the character Hayley Slater in the BBC One soap Eastenders from 2018 to 2019.
EastEnders Katie Jarvis and other cases to be heard in court in Essex this week
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EastEnders Katie Jarvis and other cases to be heard in court in Essex this week
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A WOMAN threatened a shopkeeper with a knife after having her card decline to buy booze . before he fought her off with a chair. Justine Roberts has been jailed after she threw a knife at the shopkeeper during the botched robbery at Benfleet Wines, in Kiln Road, Thundersley. During the attack, the shopkeeper was cornered behind a perspex screen in place as part of Covid restrictions, before fighting her off with a chair. Roberts, 46, of Abbotswood, Hadleigh, tried to buy the cider at 8.45pm on February 3, but her card was declined twice. Half an hour later she returned to the store, wearing a hat and face mask, and threatened the shopkeeper with a large kitchen knife, demanding he take cash from the till.