1.   The new courts were designed to relieve police courts of petty offences.

2.   They patrolled the streets and aimed to prevent, by their presence, the committing of petty offences or minor disorder.

3.   Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction.

4.   Iraq has pardoned all Arab nationals jailed for petty criminal offences and will set them free immediately, the official agency INA said Tuesday.

5.   Amnesty for petty offences like parking tickets is a French tradition introduced by Charles de Gaulle.

6.   Police are also investigating allegations that Chadha killed five other street children for petty snatching offences.

7.   Reid converted to Islam while in prison in Britain for petty offences, but became radicalised after contacts with extremists at a south London mosque.