1986 - 40 years ago - July - Part 2

 1986 - 40 years ago - July - Part 2

July 14-20

A YOUNG father is released from prison so that he can travel to the UK to visit his nine month-old baby son who is in hospital with serious burns. Kevin Doublet has his six-week sentence for malicious damage reduced to five weeks and one day by the Appeal Court so that he can make the journey.

Jersey Zoo scores another success when Kishka becomes the first captive-born lowland gorilla in Britain to give birth.

Clearing bank staff working in Jersey call for a four per cent increase in their local allowance to bring it up to 16 per cent.

A 57-year-old man and his 53-year-old wife are given suspended jail sentences and fined £2,000 by a UK Court which hears that they tried to finance a Jersey holiday by smuggling cigarettes. Customs officers in Weymouth found that a car belonging to Robert and Betsy Hanley, of Bolton, was full of secret compartments containing the cigarettes.

St Clement Deputy Tony Perkins is found guilty in the Police Court of committing an act of gross indecency in the Weighbridge toilets. The 42-year-old Deputy says that he will appeal.

A former Constable of Trinity, Mr John Dorey Richardson, dies one day after his 76th birthday.

The Isle of Man government decides to seek the closure of the Sellafield nuclear reactor in Cumbria. French nuclear installations are nearer to Jersey then Sellafield is to the Isle of Man, but the Island's civil emergency controller, Col. Bill Clayden, says that Islanders have nothing to fear.

 

July 21-27

THE Education Committee reveals plans to replace Haut de la Garenne children's home with a much smaller establishment on the site of flats on the corner of Bagatelle Road and Bagatelle Lane.

It is suggested that another way in which Jersey could contribute to UK defence spending would be for the States to pay for existing Island skills and facilities to be used to carry out repair contracts for the Ministry of Defence. The suggestion comes from the chairman of Aviation Jersey, Mr Charles Evans.

Two employees of Le Riches Stores are clubbed to the ground in Colomberie by robbers who snatch a night safe bag containing £3,000. The attack occurs just outside the National Westminster Bank on the corner of Little Green Street where Mr Clint Lawrence (24), and Mr Matthew Dent (18), were about to deposit the money.

A 76-year-old woman who received serious injuries when she was struck by a car while crossing the road at Beaumont dies in hospital. Residents and shopkeepers in the Beaumont area press on with the road safety petition they were preparing before Mrs Lucille Egre was knocked down.

Committees are formed on behalf of Victoria College and the Jersey College for Girls to fight the Education Committee's plans to abolish the colleges' sixth forms and create a sixth form college instead.

Mr Geoffrey Hamon, the former Comptroller of Income Tax, is sworn in as a Jurat by the Royal Court. Jurat Hamon fills a vacancy left by the retirement of Jurat Clarrie Dupre.

 

 

 

July 28—August 3

A REPRESENTATION made in the Royal Court alleges that a miscarriage of justice occurred in the case of Mr John Patrick McLaughlin, who is serving a three-year sentence for robbery. The representation names three of the officers suspended from the States Police — Det. Chief Insp. Charles Quinn, P. Insp. Barry Blenkinsop and Det. Sgt. Brian Follain.

The former head of the Jersey teachers' pay negotiating panel, Mr Mike de Bourcier, is appointed States Employment Relations Manager, a post which carries a salary of around £20,000.

The Island Development Committee publishes Volume 2 of the Island Plan, Jersey's "blueprint for the future". It includes plans for over 2,000 new homes, new traffic schemes and proposals for preserving the countryside.

 

The Jersey Electricity Company says that it would like to build a giant coal storage yard at La Collette Power Station. The coal would be used to fire new boilers so that the Island would not be dependent on oil for the generation of electricity.

A decision by the UK Aviation Minister, Mr Michael Spicer, means that air services linking Heathrow and Jersey are to remain. Senator Bernard Binnington, the president of the Harbours and Airport Committee and a senior member of a delegation which met Mr Spicer, says he is delighted by the decision.

Education Committee president Deputy Phil Mourant denies a claim by Miss Isobel Stevenson, the headmistress of the Jersey College for Girls, that the school is being run down with a view to closure.

The Jersey Hotel and Guest House Association plans to spend £25,000 on a survey to find out how the local industry can be improved.