RIDER JAILED

A COURT has sentenced a young man who left a female passenger scarred for life after speeding on his moped in Gibraltar to four weeks in prison.

2 that year and fled to Spain. Kearney, a former soldier, had close links to the Costa Blanca, where his parents also lived, and ran a bar. Kearney, 39, pleaded guilty admitting he wanted to ‘spread fascist views’, but denied he shared the material on Telegram with the intention of causing terror attacks. Judge Richard Marks KC doubted this, insisting his ‘fanaticism’ in achieving his objectives meant he ‘intended for acts of terrorism to happen’. He sentenced him to four years and eight months.

James Marrache, 21, had denied the charge of dangerous driving, forcing the Magistrates Court to hold a full trial of the incident.

The court heard how in the early hours of July 5, 2021 Marrache, aged 19 at the time, had been showing off to his passenger while riding down Flat Bastion Road. She even asked him to slow down just before he lost control of the motorbike and crashed.

Police officers were quickly on the scene and saw ‘significant damage lying on the ground’ and ‘various scratches to a nearby wall’.