Trainee teacher sent to jail for assault on girl

Wednesday 29th March 2006, 12:00AM BST.

A TRAINEE teacher was jailed for six months yesterday for an indecent assault on a ten-year-old girl.

Philip Gordon Cunningham (25) was jailed for a further four months for contempt.

He denied the assault, but was convicted after a Magistrate’s Court trial.

He had admitted the contempt of court.

The court heard that a complaint was made 48 hours after the assault, which took place at a private address in Trinity in 2002.

Cunningham was charged nine months later.

He fled the Island before his trial in 2003 and did not return for two years.

A contempt of court charge was then added.

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