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Camden News - by TOM FOOT
Published: 24 July 2008

Judge sentenced over breach of restraining order

A CAMDEN judge has been sentenced to 50 hours’ community service for threatening his ex-wife’s new boyfriend.
Lincoln Crawford pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order barring him from contacting his ex-wife Bronwen Jenkins, daughter of the late left-wing trade union leader Clive Jenkins, or her lover Dominic Buttimore.
Blackfriars Crown Court heard that Mr Crawford had called Mr Buttimore a creep and told him: “I’m going to make you pay.”
The judge had spotted Mr Buttimore with his ex-wife and children at a school barbecue in July last year.
The 61-year-old, who has temporarily stood down from sitting as a judge, had originally denied five charges of breaching the restraining order imposed at Highbury Magistrates’ Court in May 2006.
But on Monday he changed his plea to a guilty one.
Judge Aiden Marron, QC, told Crawford: “You were given a clear chance to improve your conduct.”
He sentenced him to 50 hours’ unpaid work.
Mr Crawford came to Britain from Trinidad aged 18. He was awarded an OBE in 1988 for his charity work. He has been a member of an adoption agency, the Parole Board and a senior member of the Commission for Racial Equality.

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