Hotel director, James Taylor, then appeared at the Royal Court for sentencing this morning.
At the time of offending, the island was in level one of its safe exit strategy and swimming pools and gyms were permitted to be open.
However, spa facilities including saunas, steam rooms and jacuzzi were ordered to close in March 2020 and have not been allowed to reopen since.
The court heard that when the facilities were reopened in June 2020, the manager of Spa Serene had raised concerns with the hotel’s senior management on a number of occasions, but the facilities remained open.
Representing the crown, Advocate Matthew Maletroit said the hotel was a substantial commercial operation that was clearly aware of the pandemic and the restrictions imposed .
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A MAN who brought capsules of a class A drug into Jersey and claimed they were to treat his bad back has been jailed for four years.
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Paul Duffy (38) told a series of lies about the drugs until eventually pleading guilty to possession with intent to supply, the Superior Number of the Royal Court heard.
The police discovered four boxes of the potent painkiller oxycodone, containing a total of 196 capsules, at Duffy’s home in St Peter on 20 February.
The capsules, the court was told, could have been sold for £10 each.
Mar 5, 2021
A SENIOR manager at a telecoms company who stole mobile phones and sold them to unsuspecting customers has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service.
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The Royal Court heard yesterday that James Baker (39) could have faced a prison sentence, but five years had elapsed since the thefts.
Crown Advocate Matthew Maletroit, prosecuting, said that in 2015 a customer bought four phones from the defendant – one for himself, one for his wife and two for two friends – after being told Baker was able to obtain them at a discount. The customer had paid £250 and £262 for them.
‘He had no idea that the phones were in fact stolen,’ Mr Maletroit said.
Dec 17, 2020
A MAN accused of laundering a crime gang s money through his Central Market jewellery business has been found guilty of all charges.
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Darius Pearce faced three counts of becoming concerned in the acquisition, use, possession or control of criminal property.
The charges stemmed from a foiled plot to smuggle almost £1 million-worth of class A and B drugs into the Island in June which led to seven people being jailed for a combined total of 74 years for their role in the conspiracy.
Crown Advocate Matthew Maletroit, prosecuting, said it was the prosecution s case that Pearce played a pivotal role in the operation by paying the gang s dirty money into his bank account before using it to buy gold bullion over the phone from metals dealers in London.