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Gordie Bishop is a Newfoundlander, born and raised. But, unlike so many other Newfoundlanders, he is a Newfoundlander who, in his 32 years of life, has never left the province.

It is a point of personal history that was irrevocably altered this past Tuesday afternoon in St. John’s. Bishop, a beefy, dark-haired man dressed in a white shirt, appeared before Newfoundland Supreme Court Justice Alphonso E. Faour for sentencing for multiple crimes — break and enter, assaulting a police officer, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm, breach of recognizance and failure to stop after an accident.

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Bishop could have been locked away, but instead he is being sent away — banished, that is — from Newfoundland and Labrador for a period of one year.

“It is important to know that this is not designed to foist a criminal on another jurisdiction,” Bishop’s lawyer, Stan MacDonald, told the court, as reported by The Telegram in St. John’s. “It’s designed to break a cycle of criminality.”