1. Bail- Case studies
1. Metropolitan Police officer Garry Weddell,
who had been charged with killing his wife
Sandra, 44, at their family home. Mrs
Weddell was found in the garage of her home
in Lancot Avenue, Dunstable, Bedfordshire,
on January 31 last year. Post-mortem tests
revealed the mother of three had been
strangled with a cable tiei.
2. Two UK residents released by the US from Guantanamo Bay have appeared
before the Magistrates court under Spanish extradition warrants. Magistrates
are considering extraditing Jamil El-Banna and Omar Deghayes to Spain to face
terror allegations, they are accused of being al-Qaeda members in Madridii.
3. Newcastle United footballer Joey Barton requested at Liverpool Crown Court. The
25-year-old appeared before Liverpool magistrates
charged with assault and affray and was initially
refused bail.
Barton, has been in custody since he was arrested in
the early hours of Dec 27 in Liverpool city
centre.Barton appeared via video link from
Liverpool's Walton Prison wearing a grey prison-issue
jumper and jeans. During the hearing, the assault
charge against him was upgraded from a Section 39
common assault to a Section 47 assault occasioning
actual bodily harm. It has been alleged Barton and a
group of his friends were involved in two separate
incidents following a row with another group inside a McDonald's restaurant at around
5.30am.iii
5. COPS have arrested a fourth man in connection with the Boxing Day murder of
Dipo Seweje after receiving a tip-off. He was quizzed at a South London police
station. Mr Seweje, 20, was gunned down on the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth. The
Nigerian-born asylum seeker, was shot in the head after being chased through the
estate by a gunman. His body then lay undiscovered in a communal garden
surrounded by housing blocks for 26 hours until a member of the public found it. All
four suspects are believed to live on the estate near where Mr Seweje was shot.iv
5. Muslim activist Abu Izzadeen appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court
accused under section one of the Terrorism Act 2006, which relates to the
encouragement of terrorism. The 32-year-old hit the headlines last September
after heckling Home Secretary John Reid at a meeting in Leyton. His arrest in an
east London street on Thursday was understood to be over a speech made in
Birmingham in 2006. v
6. Three men accused of smuggling £1million cannabis with intent to supply
have applied for bail at Basildon Mags. They were arrested by detectives
from the National Crime Squad who swooped on Bentley Farm and discovered

2. the cannabis, which weighed half a ton, in metal boxes under scrap metal on
a tipper lorryvi.

3. i
granted bail on surety of £200,000
will be tagged and placed under curfew with surety of £50,000 each. As part of his bail conditions,
ii
Mr El-Banna must obey a curfew, live at his home in Dollis Hill, north London, and wear an
electronic tag
iii
granted bail
iv
Police bail
v
. conditional bail- told to live at his home in Leytonstone until the next court hearing on 23 March
& ordered him to provide a £50,000 surety, report daily to police, surrender his passport and not to
attend or address any organised meeting.
vi
RB, 52, granted conditional bail of £50,000, WS, 39, also granted conditional bail of £50,000 &
ordered to reside at his father's house. SP, 29 released on conditional bail of £10,000. all must
report daily to police.