ATTACK: Asfandyar Kiani (left) has already been jailed by Judge Nicolas Cartwright A HOMOPHOBIC thug who carried out an attack on a gay couple, one of them transgender, is due to be sentenced today with his accomplice already serving a long jail sentence. Brandon Taylor of Worcester is due to be sentenced for the attack which left both victims in a hospital trauma unit. The 19-year-old will appear before Judge Nicolas Cartwright at Worcester Crown Court today and also faces sentence for other matters of violence. Read about Worcester road rage attack His co-defendant Asfandyar Kiani, 21, also of Worcester was jailed for nine years for his role in the attack when he appeared before the same judge back in March.
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Sending people through the criminal justice system for simple possession is a complete waste of resources for the State and the individual, says Gino Kenny, TD
Earlier this week, the Irish College of Psychiatrists issued a stark warning that “cannabis represents the gravest threat to the mental health of young people today”.
The college further noted that there were suggestions that the drug was considered “harmless” and that the number of hospital admissions of young people with a cannabis-related diagnosis increased by 300% between 2005 and 2017.
There is no doubt that the potency levels of cannabis are different from what they were 10 years ago.
The songs speak volumes in
Midnight at the Never Get (★★★★☆), expressing feelings that crooner Trevor Copeland (Sam Bolen) and pianist Arthur Brightman (Christian Douglas) might otherwise never admit to themselves, each other, or the world. Arthur writes the songs and Trevor sings them, but both of their stories, and an era of LGBTQ history, flow through their fateful collaboration.
The musical conceived by Bolen, writer/composer/lyricist Mark Sonnenblick, and Max Friedman, who directed the original Off-Broadway production depicts a version of Trevor and Arthur’s partnership as Trevor remembers it. His memory often fails him, as he regales his audience at the Never Get, a backroom boîte in Greenwich Village, with a tale of love, loss, and, he hopes, reunion.