22-year-old Bailey Smith is to be sentenced at the Crown Court after pleading guilty to a 'prolonged attack' in which he kicked another man in the head some 7 times. The Isle of Wight Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday that...

A 55-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to 2 charges of exposing his penis following separate incidents in Ventnor in October of last year. Carl Hamling, of Steephill Road in Ventnor, is accused of intentionally exposing his genitals on 14th...

A man who was caught carrying a knuckleduster in his trousers for his 'own protection' has been sentenced at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court this week. 45-year-old Brian Bailey, previously of Clatterford Road in Newport, pleaded guilty to possessing...

23-year-old Thomas Phillips has been banned from driving after a Police motorcyclist smelt a strong waft of cannabis coming from his car. It was on 23rd January this year that Phillips was driving along St George's Way in Newport when...

A mum-of-2 from East Cowes who was caught behind the wheel whilst almost 5x the drink-drive limit has been taken off the roads for 36 months and handed a 20-week suspended prison sentence. 28-year-old Isabella Kochanski, of Albert Way, appeared...

A Ryde man has been charged following an investigation into a series of domestic-related incidents, alleged to have taken place between September 2020 and December 2021. Ryan Hopewell, 21, of Amherst Place, has been charged with assault occasioning actual bodily...

Monday 11th April – Friday 15th April 2022 • Ryan Davey, 28, of Lushington Hill in Wootton, pleaded guilty to drink driving (122). He was banned from driving for 29 months and made subject to a 24-month community order with...

Monday 4th April – Friday 8th April 2022 • Gareth Edward Furmidge, 42, of Church Road in Wootton, admitted failing to comply with the requirements of a community order by not attending unpaid work. Furmidge was given the order on...

A man who lured children into his Sandown home by allowing them to play computer games has been jailed for sexually abusing a child in the 1990s and early 2000s. 58-year-old Michael Norman Smith sexually assaulted the boy between 1997...

Monday 28th March – Friday 1st April 2022 • William James Davies, 21, of Fairmount Drive in Newport, pleaded guilty to speeding - namely 59mph in a 40mph limit. He was fined £120 and handed 5 points on his licence,...