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...

Monday 19th February – Friday 23rd February 2024 • Joshua Green, 34, of Yarborough Road, East Cowes pleaded guilty to using threatening / abusive words / behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress. He was handed a 12-month conditional...

43-year-old Steven Tuckey, who became obsessed with a TV cam girl, has been slapped with a 10-year Stalking Protection Order by the courts and has been ordered to pay £6,500 in costs. Tuckey, of Dame Anthony's Close in Binstead, is...

Monday 12th February – Friday 16th February 2024 • Mack Alexander, 26, care of Ashey Road in Ryde, admitted breaching the requirements of a community order. He was fined £40 and ordered to pay £60 costs. • Winston Rees, 35, of...

35-year-old Louis Fletcher has been jailed for raping a woman on the Isle of Wight. Fletcher assaulted the woman - who was known to him - at an address in Ryde on the evening of 15th March 2021, after she...

Monday 5th February – Friday 9th February 2024 • Robert Williams, 35, of Beauchamp Road, Newport pleaded guilty to 2x assault by beating of an emergency worker, criminal damage and theft from a shop. He was fined £280 and ordered to...