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Subscriber only A Kingaroy man previously sentenced for grooming a 14-year-old girl found himself back before the district court for breaching his recognisance order. Jon Faulkner, 27, pleaded guilty to breaching the order, which was handed down on August 19 last year in relation to two commonwealth offences committed in 2019. Reading from the sentencing statements, Judge Glen Cash QC said the sentence imposed upon Faulkner related to him using telephone services or internet services to groom a child and to solicit child pornography material . Those are pretty serious offences, as you would understand from the sentences that were imposed by Judge Kefford on that occasion last year, Judge Cash said.
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When he first came to London in 1950, the Australian actor Trader Faulkner, who has died aged 93, was instructed by John Gielgud in rehearsals to “take that dreadful compost out of your mouth, Trader”. He did, sort of, and soon afterwards succeeded Richard Burton in Gielgud’s production of Christopher Fry’s The Lady’s Not for Burning on Broadway, appearing alongside Pamela Brown and Esmé Percy “in the glittering style of artificial comedy.”
That last phrase of the New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson could be as easily applied to Faulkner’s own life in show business. This was an eccentric tapestry of leading and not-so-leading roles, of name-dropping connections, close-up entanglements with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, flamenco dancing, Dorothy Tutin, for whom he reserved an unrequited adoration – they were houseboat neighbours for a time on the Thames at Chelsea Reach – and Maxine Audley.
Gangs committing burglaries bringing terror to innocent people , Judge says as he jails getaway driver
A jury unanimously found the getaway driver guilty of this highly planned burglary in North Cork
Liam Heylin Gangs targeting the homes of elderly and vulnerable people living in remote areas bring terror to innocent people, a judge said as he jailed a getaway driver for such a crime for 12 years and banned him from driving for 20 years.
A jury unanimously found the getaway driver guilty of this highly planned burglary in North Cork. The elderly couple planning to attend evening mass were informed of a plan to burgle their house when they were out and they gave permission to have six officers in the house to catch them in an investigation called Operation Evening Mass.
Ann Mooney
Updated: 22 Apr 2021, 19:55
A GETAWAY driver for a burglary gang that brought “terror” as they preyed on elderly and vulnerable people was jailed today for 12 years.
John Faulkner, of Adelaide Place, St Luke’s, Cork city, claimed he was dropping off his pals to visit friends, but gardai testified that the men who exited his car tried to break into the rural home of a couple in their 80s near Charleville, north Co Cork.
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Judge Sean O’Donnabhain said people like Faulkner had forced pensioners into lockdown long before the pandemic struck
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Getaway driver Faulkner appeared before the Circuit Criminal Court in Cork this weekCredit: Google Streetview