34-year-old David Mitchell has been handed a 12-month driving ban after being caught drug driving - with admissions in court that he had been smoking cannabis as a method of pain relief for up to 17 years. The Isle of...

A local football coach who made the 'foolish' decision to drink-drive was caught by Police as he was speeding out of East Cowes, the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court heard this week. Kian Mooney, 21, of Pelham Road in Cowes,...

An Isle of Wight man has been banned from driving for 2 years after being found with cocaine and amphetamine in his system whilst behind the wheel of a car. 32-year-old Kieran Light, of Berry Close in Newport, pleaded guilty...

A man who 'turned' on his drinking buddy before trying to strangle him on the bed of a caravan in Newport has pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Oliver James Maxwell Franks, 44, of Labourham Drove in Cheddar,...

40-year-old Richard Hunt has been banned from driving for 12 months after pleading guilty to drug driving. Hunt, of Milton Road in Cowes, appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Friday morning charged with 1 count of drug...

27-year-old John Turner has been banned from the roads for 25 months after crashing his car into a hedge whilst 3 times the drink-drive limit. Turner, of High Street in Bembridge, was driving home from a night out playing snooker...

3 men from the Isle of Wight have been convicted of organising the smuggling of people across the English Channel, with the revelation that 10 illegal immigrants were brought into the country via East Cowes. 47-year-old Stephen 'Lord' Redhead, of...

A teenager has been jailed for 32-months for stabbing a boy at Puckpool near Ryde back in November 2020. Liam Williams, 19, was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent after he stabbed a 16-year-old boy who was out...

Monday 21st February – Friday 25th February 2022 • Angela Vella, 51, of Slade Road in Ryde, pleaded guilty to sending an offensive/indecent/obscene/menacing message and changed her plea to guilty for charges of assault by beating and using threatening/abusive/insulting words...

A criminal case against a 76-year-old Ryde man accused of a string of historic child sex offences, some dating back 48 years, failed to make it to court as the defendant died ahead of his appearance. Ian Dell, of Corbett...