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WHAT HAPPENED ON 18th May 2006?
17th May 2006
Prison for fatal crash boyfriend
A driver who killed his girlfriend after trying to take a bend in West Lothian at nearly twice the speed limit has been jailed for three years. Kevin Galloway 21 reached estimated speeds of more than 55mph when his car skidded & hit a wall in a 30mph zone. His girlfriend Linsey Lewis 18 a student vet died instantly from a broken spine in the Kirknewton crash. Galloway from Livingston earlier admitted causing the death of Ms Lewis by dangerous driving on 12 July 2005. More at www.bbc.co.uk/scotlandnews
18th May 2006
Men jailed for Spanish murders
Two Venezuelan men have been jailed for a total of 116 years for the kidnap torture & murder of a north Wales couple house-hunting in Spain. The bodies of Anthony & Linda O'Malley of Llangollen but originally from Liverpool were found in the cellar of a villa in 2002. Jorge Real Sierra & Jose Antonio Velazquez Gonzales were found guilty of the killings by judges in Spain. Real was jailed for 62 years & Velazquez for 54 years & six months.
18th May 2006
Silent shop robber sent to jail
A masked knifeman - caught by the shop worker he attacked - tried to dodge police questions by pretending to be a Buddhist who could not speak. Callum Neil was silent again at the High Court in Edinburgh as he was jailed for three years & nine months for the attack on Mohammed Sharif. Neil 29 had drunk a litre of vodka and two bottles of Buckfast. Neil had pleaded guilty earlier to assaulting Mr Sharif with intent to rob him on 23 December.
17th May 2006
Family anguish at sentence delay
A family has criticised the justice system after a judge was unable to sentence two teenage murderers because background reports were not ready. Callum Evans & Peter Clark both 18 were due to be sentenced on Wednesday for killing John Hatfield 23 in Glasgow. Evans was tagged at the time. Social workers could not get access to Polmont Young Offenders' Institution to compile background reports. Mr Hatfield's family said they had expected "justice" & "closure".
18th May 2006
Men jailed for Spanish murders
Two Venezuelan men have been jailed for a total of 116 years for the kidnap torture & murder of a north Wales couple house-hunting in Spain. The bodies of Anthony & Linda O'Malley of Llangollen but originally from Liverpool were found in the cellar of a villa in 2002. Jorge Real Sierra & Jose Antonio Velazquez Gonzales were found guilty of the killings by judges in Spain. Real was jailed for 62 years & Velazquez for 54 years & six months.
18th May 2006
Turks protest over judge shooting
Tens of thousands of Turks have turned funeral ceremonies for a judge shot by a suspected Islamist gunman into a mass show of support for secularism. They waved Turkish flags & chanted for the country to remain secular on marches through the capital Ankara. A man calling himself "a soldier of Allah" shot dead Judge Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin & wounded four others at a top administrative court on Wednesday. He was immediately arrested. At least three others have since been detained.
17th May 2006
Family anguish at sentence delay
A family has criticised the justice system after a judge was unable to sentence two teenage murderers because background reports were not ready. Callum Evans & Peter Clark both 18 were due to be sentenced on Wednesday for killing John Hatfield 23 in Glasgow. Evans was tagged at the time. Social workers could not get access to Polmont Young Offenders' Institution to compile background reports. Mr Hatfield's family said they had expected "justice" & "closure".
18th May 2006
Men jailed for Spanish murders
Two Venezuelan men have been jailed for a total of 116 years for the kidnap torture & murder of a north Wales couple house-hunting in Spain. The bodies of Anthony & Linda O'Malley of Llangollen but originally from Liverpool were found in the cellar of a villa in 2002. Jorge Real Sierra & Jose Antonio Velazquez Gonzales were found guilty of the killings by judges in Spain. Real was jailed for 62 years & Velazquez for 54 years & six months.
18th May 2006
Family died in 'murderous spree'
A former scrap metal dealer has gone on trial accused of setting off on "a murderous spree" in which he killed four members of the same family. David Morris 44 of Craig-cefn-parc Swansea Valley denies killing three generations of the same family in 1999 in a re-trial at Newport Crown Court. Mandy Power 34 Katie 10 Emily eight and Doris Dawson 80 died at their home in Clydach near Swansea. Mr Morris' previous murder conviction was quashed on appeal.
17th May 2006
Warning over 'police cuts plan'
Some 25 000 police officers could be axed amid plans to merge the 42 police forces in England & Wales the leader of the Police Federation has warned. Jan Berry told the federation's annual conference the aim could be to pay for 25 000 community support officers promised by the government by 2008. Replacing police with civilian patrols would be a "tragedy" she said. But Home Secretary John Reid said CSOs should not be used in place of police and there were no plans to do so.
18th May 2006
Men jailed for Spanish murders
Two Venezuelan men have been jailed for a total of 116 years for the kidnap torture & murder of a north Wales couple house-hunting in Spain. The bodies of Anthony & Linda O'Malley of Llangollen but originally from Liverpool were found in the cellar of a villa in 2002. Jorge Real Sierra & Jose Antonio Velazquez Gonzales were found guilty of the killings by judges in Spain. Real was jailed for 62 years & Velazquez for 54 years & six months.
18th May 2006
Hain backs police funding worries
The Home Office should meet the extra costs of reorganising the police forces in Wales Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has said. Wales' four chief constables said this week they would not support plans for a single Welsh force unless he addressed funding concerns. Mr Hain told BBC Wales he agreed with the chief constables' stance. He said council-taxpayers should not have to foot the bill adding the home secretary was listening to concerns.
