Victim of Tesco car park assault was 'screaming on ground'

November 27, 2015, 11:02 am

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A thug who pulled a teenage girl to the ground and kicked her in the head – then lied to police about it – walked free after admitting common assault.Witnesses heard the victim, who was just 16, screaming on the ground in the Tesco car park in Blidworth, as Kyle Chettle attacked her in a row over a mobile phone in July.Yesterday, Chettle, 18, was sentenced at Nottingham Crown Court after admitting common assault.Recorder Ciaran Rankin gave him four months' youth custody and ordered...

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November 27, 2015, 9:59 pm

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Welcome to the Nottingham Post's live news blog - where you'll get all the breaking news first. 9.25am NTU Graduation Day today - it will be busy around Wollaton St, South Sherwood St, Talbot St & Burton St area - expect Car Parks to be V.Busy— NottinghamTravelwise (@NottmTravelwise) November 28, 2015 9.10am All the info on where to find an alternative Christmas dinner here 9am More on the weather and what to expect here 8.55am A number of @NottsSpecials...

Dying pensioner's home ransacked by burglars who pulled up rugs...

November 27, 2015, 10:00 pm

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Burglars stripped a dying pensioner's home – even taking the mirrors from her walls, rugs from her floors and food from her fridge. The brazen raiders also snatched medication belonging to Cathrine MacDonald, 74, and emptied her Bulwell house of crockery, furniture polish and washing-up liquid. Mrs MacDonald, pictured, had just returned home from hospital, having suffered a heart attack three days before the raid. She suffers from kidney problems and liver failure and receives...

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November 28, 2015, 8:20 am

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A gang of men robbed a travel agents in Eastwood on Friday night, stealing cash and a Michael Kors handbag.It is believed they concealed a weapon in a bag and used it to demand cash from the staff.A man entered the travel agents on Nottingham Road at about 5.15pm and demanded cash. He forced staff to open the back doors to allow three other men to enter the property.They then stole money and the handbag. Police are appealing for help in tracking down the wanted robbers.The first man is described...

Dancer 'lucky to be alive' after leg mangled in scooter crash

November 29, 2015, 10:00 pm

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Dancer Rae Scudder says she is "lucky to be alive" and looking forward to taking to the stage again – despite being left with a shattered leg after a horrific car crash. The 25-year-old, of Bestwood Village, was knocked off her scooter in a collision with a BMW X5 SUV on Monday, November 16, in a "brutal" incident which broke her leg in five places, with bones piercing her skin. Rae, a shop supervisor at Iceland in Stapleford, was riding home from a shift at ...

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November 30, 2015, 6:20 am

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A paedophile who repeatedly sexually abused two children over a period of 13 years has been jailed for 18 years.Kenneth Jones – of Wysall Road, Costock, in Rushcliffe – was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault on a girl under the age of 14; two counts of assault of a girl under 13 by touching; two counts of assault of a girl under 13 by penetration; two counts of sexual assault; two counts of assault of a girl 13 and over with a part of the body/thing and one count of rape...

Biker jailed after ploughing into mother walking with her...

November 30, 2015, 6:29 am

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A speeding biker has been jailed for two years for killing a mother who was enjoying a summer stroll with her family.Factory worker Elvis Whitaker already had points on his licence for speeding when he ploughed into Dawn Stanton, her partner and two grown-up children.And even the crash didn't slow him down. While waiting for his case to be heard at Nottingham Crown Court he was caught breaking the speed limit on two more occasions.The 48-year-old, from Ironville, was found guilty on Monday of...

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November 30, 2015, 7:31 am

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A woman who sold rent-to-own items and claimed they had been stolen so she could buy her partner a new tracksuit has been fined.Jade Lane, of Jenkins Avenue, Retford, was sentenced to nine months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after she admitted four charges of false representation and one of perverting the course of justice.The 21-year-old contacted Nottinghamshire Police on September 12 to report that her home had been burgled.The items stolen included an Apple MacBook, a Samsung Galaxy...

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November 30, 2015, 12:14 pm

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A tearful woman told a murder trial on Monday how her partner said "don't forget, I love you, babes" as he lay dying from a stab wound to the neck.John Parker, 43, had been struck once with a knife at about 4pm one Sunday while with former drug user Keeley Gosling. She had been out shoplifting in the Victoria Centre, Nottingham Crown Court heard.The trial heard that Mr Parker had already been attacked and robbed of some perfumes stolen by Ms Gosling on May 31.A few minutes later, the...

Inquest into death of Curtis Nuttall, found in the River Trent

November 30, 2015, 10:00 pm

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AN inquest has been opened into the death of an 18-year-old whose body was found in the River Trent earlier this autumn.Curtis David Mark Nuttall's body was recovered from Nether Lock, in Newark, on October 27.He had last been seen leaving Atrium nightclub, in Newark, on October 16 and a police appeal was launched.The inquest into his death was opened by coroner Stephanie Haskey yesterday morning at Nottingham Council House.Ms Haskey said the case was still in its "early days".She...

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December 1, 2015, 7:11 am

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Police have arrested 18 people in connection with the supply of class A drugs in a series of co-ordinated raids in the East Midlands.Nottinghamshire Police teamed up with Derbyshire Constabulary and Leicestershire Police to brig in 16 men and two women.Senior investigating officer for the operation, Detective Inspector John Roddis, said: "This has been a lengthy investigation into what we believe is a large network of people who are dealing in class A drugs."Ten people were arrested...

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December 1, 2015, 10:18 am

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A junior boxer who fought for England 27 times is facing a new battle to put his career back together after he was caught with cannabis and a machete.Eddie O'Rourke was the toast of boxing circles as he rose rapidly through the ranks and once appeared on the same bill with Tyson Fury, now Great Britain's eighth world heavyweight champion.Nottingham Crown Court heard on Tuesday, December 1, O'Rourke, 26, of School Lane, in Newark, lost his way after his mother died in 2011.He was caught by police...

John Parker murder trial: Witness saw him trying to stop bleeding

December 1, 2015, 10:49 am

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A stabbing victim who died after he was struck once with a knife had tried to stop the bleeding by putting his hands around his neck, a jury heard.John Parker collapsed in the street after he was attacked at the end of May.Jonathan Jones, 39, of Barbury Drive, Clifton, denies his murder but admits manslaughter.His trial at Nottingham Crown Court heard about Mr Parker's final moments from one witness, Iraq-born Yasin Mahidin, who fled his homeland in 2002 after problems under Saddam Hussein's...

Thieves targeting vans at Nottingham hotels and pubs

December 1, 2015, 10:51 am

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Vans are being targeted while parked at hotels and pubs in Nottingham, police say.Vans have been broken into outside the Premier Inn in Daybrook, the Best Western hotel in Mansfield Road and the Park Inn in Mansfield Road overnight between Monday, November 30, and Tuesday, December 1.It follows nine van break-ins at hotel or pub car parks in the last month in the Rushcliffe, Broxtowe and Gedling areas. Thieves are mainly stealing tools.Nottinghamshire Police has asked van owners to make sure...

The time the Rolling Stones visited a house in Beeston

December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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Like most bands of the 60s, the Rolling Stones cut their musical teeth in small clubs, theatres and dance halls around the country. A new book follows the Stones on their earli concert trail, told in the words of those who were there. Andy Smart takes a look... Musician Martin Osborn rocked up to the Odeon, Nottingham, in 1963, to see the Rolling Stones on a star-packed bill. Having driven from Leicester in those pre-motorway days he arrived a little late. "Have the Stones been...

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Beeston drink-driver banned for two years

December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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Beeston: A driver left court with a two-year ban after he was caught over the limit. Daniel Szabo,36, of Lower Regent Street, had 97 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, over the limit of 35, on October 3. Szabo pleaded guilty and must do 60 hours of unpaid work and was ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £60, costs of £85 and a courts charge of £150. Nottingham: Thomas Williams, 20, of Swallow Drive, in Bingham, was bailed at Nottingham Magistrates' Court...

Convicted cannabis farmer vows to turn over new leaf

December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A cannabis farmer told a court that the shock of a police raid had made him quit the drug. Nathan Powell had set up equipment to grow his own supplies while living on Pleasant Court, in Radford, Nottingham Magistrates' Court heard yesterday. It included a small fan and watering equipment but was found by police who got a search warrant and checked the home on August 18. District Judge Leo Pyle ordered the destruction of the items and told him: "Do not be tempted to re-erect what the...

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December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A voluntary worker was jailed after losing his temper and repeatedly assaulting a nine-year-old boy.Timothy Bassett, 48, was barred for life from contacting the youngster after a court heard that his victim could suffer lasting damage.District Judge Leo Pyle told Bassett: "You subjected him to a repeated assault which would be inexcusable if meted out to an animal, let alone a 35-kilogram little boy."He had 15 injuries which were not accidental and you took him to your house to 'calm...

Stab victim: 'Ex boyfriend did not mean to puncture my liver'

December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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A stabbing victim wrote a letter to a judge to say she did not believe her former boyfriend intended to puncture her liver when he attacked her with a knife.The woman said she had made a full recovery from the injury which was inflicted on her by Craig Wardle after he believed she was being chatted up by another man.Derby Crown Court was told how the 27-year-old armed himself with a knife intent on "getting" the man concerned.The stabbing occurred in Ripley on August 8.Wardle pleaded...

Nottinghamshire pair avoid prison after £12k cable raid

December 1, 2015, 10:00 pm

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Two Nottinghamshire men involved in the theft of 700 metres of railway signalling cable weighing one-and-a-half tons and worth more than £12,000 have avoided jail.Kyle Bramwell, 28, of Skegby Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, and Kevin Hunter, 32, of Sherwood Road, Retford, pleaded guilty to theft at Gloucester Crown Court.Hunter, who has 33 previous convictions for burglary, theft, drugs offences and handling stolen goods, was given an 18-month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, ordered to...