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FORMER MP Eric Joyce was convicted yesterday of launching an “unjustified and unprovoked” attack on two teenagers in a shop.
The former Labour MP for Falkirk was found guilty of two counts of common assault relating to an incident at a shop in Camden, north London, on October 17 last year. He had denied the charges.
Prosecutor Jon Swain had told Westminster Magistrates’ Court that there had been an “exchange of words,” after which Mr Joyce grabbed one of the teenagers, who was knocked to the floor.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury
