A DECISION about whether to allow a building company director who is suing a surgeon amend his claim has been delayed.

A PARANOID schizophrenic man who punched a police officer in the mouth loosening some of his teeth was remanded in custody in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

AN ASSAULT victim lay on her lounge floor crying out in pain for nine hours trying to rouse from a drunken sleep the man who had attacked her.

RAPIST Filipe Burton will be out of prison while he is still young but his victims will be forced to suffer for the rest of their lives, the head of a national victim support charity has said.

ON SATURDAY, police and the emergency services were reportedly due to hold an exercise that modelled a violent attack in a classroom and local actors had supposedly been lined up to add realism to the event.

THE Law Officers and advocates are divided over proposals to reform the Court of Appeal.

FOR most islanders, the work of the courts is something that goes on in the background, unnoticed and unremarkable, unless a headline brings its role into focus.

A YOUNG man who threw a kettle of boiling water at a workmate, badly scalding him, has been jailed for three-and-a-half years.

A DRUGS smuggling operation which a judge said was reminiscent of a 1970s film, but with a degree of sophistication to it, ended with two men being given lengthy jail terms yesterday.

A FAMILY accused of conning an elderly and nearly-blind woman out of more than £250,000 settled out of court yesterday moments before a civil trial action against them was due to start.