AN EMOTIONAL plea for leniency by a woman convicted of trafficking $2 million worth of marijuana and cocaine, might have borne fruit had she pleaded guilty at the start of the trial and not decide to fight the case.

DORIS SIMON, mother of murdered policeman Cpl Terrance Abraham says she is dreading facing his funeral service later today at the Marabella RC Church. Simon, 64, said she is trying her best to “remain strong” three days after her son was shot dead. She confessed that the funeral service of her son was “the most dreaded moment of my life.”

SHANE ALEONG son of Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh is expected to go on trial on September 10 in Port-of-Spain Magistrates’ Court on three charges which arise out of an alleged beating incident in Woodbrook.

TWO MEN, fashionably dressed in women’s apparel complete with wigs, meticulous face make-up and painted fingernails caused several heads to turn in amazement when they appeared yesterday before a San Fernando magistrate charged with loitering in San Fernando.

Crab thief fined $650