Triplets aged 13 were banned from hundreds of shops in Gillingham Kent for a catalogue of unacceptable offences

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Triplets aged 13 were banned from hundreds of shops in Gillingham, Kent, for a "catalogue of unacceptable" offences.. A schoolgirl lost a Â£120,000 compensation battle yesterday over a claim that she had injured her back doing a headstand during a PE lesson. The teenager, who was 13 at the time, had claimed at Swansea County Court that she still took painkillers every day for an injury, which made it difficult even to raise her arms and that her job prospects had been affected.Judge Gary Hickinbottom rejected her account of events and said he believed the teacher's version, which he said was "modest, unassuming and quite compelling".He criticised witness statements put together by the schoolgirl's family, later signed by two pupils and submitted as evidence. "The words used in the statements were not the words of the witnesses themselves," he said in his judgment.

"They were prepared by the claimant's mother at a time when both the claimant and the witnesses were no more than about 13 or 14 years old."Miss Ashton, a former pupil at the former Dwr-y-Felin Upper School, claimed the education authority failed in its duty of care. Afterwards, Paul Bennett, Miss Ashton's solicitor, said she was "very disappointed" with the judgment and considering an appeal.Rex Phillips, of the NASUWT teaching union, said Carol Stevens' ordeal was finally over. "Her good name and reputation have been dragged through the courts by a chancer," he said.. A carjacker who imprisoned two women in the boots of their vehicles and robbed four others at knifepoint was jailed for 14 years yesterday. Smith, from Braunstone, Leicester, picked on lone women in car parks and threatened to kill several of his victims if they told police.

In one attack he punched a woman in the face.Smith was sentenced to 14 years at Leicester Crown Court for his six-week reign of terror between July and September last year. He admitted three kidnaps, two false imprisonments and one robbery.Jane Johnson, 60, was sitting in her car in Braunstone, Leicester, when Smith got in beside her with a knife and shouted: "Get out of the car. Don't make a fuss or I will kill you." He forced her out and drove away. The vehicle was abandoned.In the second attack, Smith followed Catherine Parnell, 34, out of a Safeway supermarket in Leicester and waited until she was in her car.

He opened the door, ordered her to move to the passenger seat, pointed a 9-inch blade at her throat and warned: "If you scream I will stab you." He took Â£50 from a cash machine on Ms Parnell's card, forced her from the car and drove away.In another incident, Smith walked into the office of Emma Watson, 30, a clerk at a firm of solicitors who had represented Smith for six years, demanded Â£250 and threatened to stab her. She persuaded him to leave empty-handed.Smith's fourth victim, Dr Tania Nolan, 36, from Manchester, was visiting Leicester Royal Infirmary when Smith got into her car He shouted: "Get out of this place Your car is not worth your life", and made her drive away. He forced her to climb into the boot and drove her to a petrol station. He took Â£200 from a cash machine on her card but Dr Nolan escaped when Smith stopped to visit an ex-girlfriend.At Watford Gap service station on the M1, Smith forced Lindsay Ailing, 21, into the car boot. As he drew Â£200 from a cash machine on her card, she managed to escape.The last victim, Win Shoebridge, 60, tried to grab the knife as Smith opened her car door.