There was an impromptu musical interlude at Cookstown Magistrates' Court yesterday when a defendant sang a song to the resident magistrate from the dock. When a charge of theft against Mr Oliver Cleary (23), a computer technician, of Castle Gardens, Dungannon, was adjourned for probation reports, Mr Cleary began singing the 1984 hit I Want To Know What Love Is by the American group Foreigner.
As Mr Cleary was being escorted from the building, the Magistrate, Mr Mark Hamill, commented that the court would require all the reports it could get, just like Mr Cleary needed singing lessons.