A 28-year-old man has been jailed for 15 years for coercive controlling behaviour and raping a 25-year-old woman at an address in Gosport. Connor Richard Barnes, of no fixed abode but previously of Fort Mews in Sandown, appeared at Portsmouth...

25-year-old Jack Taylor, who shouted homophobic abuse at a kebab house worker and said that he would 'cut her up like kebab meat', has been handed an 18-month community order by Magistrates. Taylor, of Captains Parade in East Cowes, was...

A Newport mother who was caught driving at almost 4-and-a-half times the limit - said to be one of the highest readings the court has seen - has narrowly avoided an immediate custodial sentence. Beata Mazurek, 41, of Rooke Street...

47-year-old Shawn Cooke, who took to the wheel of his Transit van whilst drunk to avoid a parking ticket, has been banned from driving for 23 months after smashing into several parked cars and fleeing the scene. As first reported...

44-year-old Kevin Greenwood, who burgled a church during a Christmas carol concert and later went on to use bank cards that had been stolen during a football match in Shanklin, has been handed a 16-week suspended prison sentence. Greenwood appeared...

This is your weekly round-up of some of the latest court cases heard at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court. The defendant’s name, age, address and details of the charge(s) and sentence are published in accordance with Criminal Procedure Rule...

53-year-old Marcus Webb, who took a whizz in his car's passenger footwell whilst struggling to stand upright, has been handed a suspended prison sentence and been banned from the roads for 3 years. Marcus Webb, of Carlton Road in Ryde,...

A Sandown woman who ploughed into a stationary motorcycle, having failed to apply the brakes to her car, has been handed a 12-month driving ban. Lauren Beaumont, of St John’s Road, appeared before magistrates on Friday morning (1st March) charged...

Disgraced former town councillor Thomas Hanley has been handed a suspended prison sentence and a near 3-year driving ban after crashing his car whilst more than 4x the drink-drive limit. It was on 30th December last year that Police were...

A former Shanklin woman who was caught with around £8,000 worth of cocaine in a safe and amphetamines in her freezer has been handed a suspended prison sentence. Rachel Varley, 45, of Kensington Avenue in Greater Manchester appeared at the...