Bristol vicar s obstruction protest court case abandoned and restarted
The 79-year-old said she didn t obstruct anyone
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The case against a retired Bristol vicar accused of blocking the main entrance to the huge Ministry of Defence headquarters at Abbey Wood for almost four hours had to be abandoned in court in Bristol today.
Rev Sue Parfitt, 79, will begin a new trial at Bristol Magistrates Court in June, charged with obstruction, as part of a Christian Climate Action protest which stopped hundreds entering the MoD complex in Filton one morning back in December last year.
A JUDGE told a cosmetics thief she believed he was working for a “criminal enterprise”. Marius-Gabriel Pascu was warned that his refusal to give the court his address meant the judge had little choice except to send him to prison. But District Judge Joanna Dickens stopped short of imposing an immediate prison sentence and instead gave the 45-year-old a four week jail sentence suspended for a year. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court via video link from Gablecross police station, Pascu, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to stealing £300-worth of makeup from the Brunel Centre Boots store on Saturday, February 27.
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Covingham Park, where the boy ran down his victim; inset: a McDonald s sign Pictures: GOOGLE/PIXABAY A BOY who ran down a 69-year-old woman in front of her two grandchildren then drove away laughing was branded “out of control” by a Swindon judge. The 14-year-old, who cannot be named as he is under 18, was sentenced to 18 months in custody for a string of violent offending dating back to November 2019. Sentencing the boy to the 18-month detention and training order, District Judge Joanna Dickens said: “Putting it in a nutshell, the problem that you’ve got is you’re out of control.
File image of a police officer A WOMAN who spat at a police officer called to help paramedics after she overdosed on drugs walked free from court. District Judge Joanna Dickens told Tiegan Lloyd in normal circumstances she would send the 20-year-old to prison for assaulting the female police officer in Swindon last August. But noting the young woman had attacked the officer after taking an overdose, was remorseful and a low risk of reoffending, the judge imposed a 12 month community order. Lloyd must pay £100 compensation and complete 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and 27 hours at the attendance centre. The judge said: “This is a horrendous situation for police officers. If you imagine the situation where you go to work everyday and everyday you are exposed to the possibility you could get a serious illness from somebody spitting at you or you could get seriously injured, you have to seriously ask why you want to do it.”