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Jonathon Proctor, a doorman, was injured during an altercation with Craig Rimmer at the Old Cigar and Olive in Folkestone, Kent, on November 23, 2024. Rimmer was sentenced to pay £2,000 in compensation and spared jail after changing his plea to guilty of actual bodily harm.
Jonathon Proctor is scheduled to undergo surgery for a knee injury that includes a tear in his meniscus and ACL. Craig Rimmer, who has previously been convicted of relevant offences, received a six-week compensation order totalling £2,000 but has avoided further punishment according to the presiding judge.
Jonathon Proctor has expressed his anger at the justice system after Craig Rimmer, who inflicted a serious knee injury, received a £2,000 compensation order without serving jail time. Proctor’s future remains uncertain as he now faces knee surgery due to a tear in his meniscus and ACL, which he asserts has effectively ended his career as a doorman.
What remains unclear — It is not specified when Jonathon Proctor will undergo the operation on his knee or the expected recovery time.
Doorman criticises court sentence after attacker avoids jail for assault
A doorman injured while breaking up a fight has blasted the justice system after his attacker got off with ‘a slap on the wrist’ while his life has been left in tatters.
Jonathon Proctor, 33, was thrown to the floor by Craig Rimmer while escorting him out of the Old Cigar and Olive in Folkestone, Kent, on November 23, 2024.
He suffered a serious knee injury in the fall and still needs crutches nearly two years on. Unable to work since, he is also having to rely on benefits to get by.
Jonathon said he was hoping to face Rimmer in court after he was charged with ABH over the incident.
But he ended up changing his plea when Jonathan wasn’t at court and was sentenced without him being there to see.
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Rimmer was spared jail and ordered to pay £2,000 in compensation.
‘It still makes me so angry,’ Jonathon said.
‘I waited a year, over a year, for literally just to be able to sneak into court at the very last moment, change his plea, and get a £2,000 compensation order – it hurts.
‘It was absolutely ridiculous.’
At the hearing, the court heard that Rimmer, a father-of-three who works as a foreman for construction firm Balfour Beatty, had three ‘relevant’ convictions but had ‘not been in trouble since 2011’.
Defending, Rimmer’s barrister said that ‘he commands an impressive salary, that this could best be met by a fine’.
Sentencing, the judge told Rimmer he didn’t think he ‘deserved or needed to be punished any further’ for his offending and made an order for compensation.
The judge then wished Rimmer luck in getting back to Great Yarmouth.
Jonathon says he feels like Rimmer has got off with a ‘slap on the wrist’ while he still deals with pain related to his injuries.
He said: ‘It’s arrogance for me. Door staff go to work to make sure people like him can have a good night.
‘What I don’t anticipate is having my career destroyed by him.
‘It makes me really angry.
‘My career, my whole entire career has now gone – my knee is unlikely to get back to full strength.
‘I very much doubt I’ll ever be in a mental state or physical state to go back on the doors.
‘What he’s effectively done is destroyed a good portion of what I can do now.’
Jonathon now faces an operation on his knee after a scan revealed a tear in his meniscus, or knee cartilage, and ACL.
October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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November 23, 2024
8:25 am
Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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