Teenagers escape jail ‘by skin of their teeth’
Tuesday 8th April 2008, 2:28PM BST.
TWO teenage girls who lied when giving evidence in court narrowly escaped going to jail
Chanelle Norman, 18, and a 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted perjury when they appeared before the Royal Court yesterday. They claimed that they had done it because they had been threatened.
Each of the girls was sentenced to 200 hours of community service. Judge Russell Finch said not sentencing the pair to six months’ youth detention was an act of mercy and that the defendants’ youthfulness had played a part in the decision.
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