Courts

A man from East Cowes has been banned from driving after rolling his car into a field whilst high on cocaine and cannabis. 25-year-old Adam Karl Johnston of Clarence Road was driving a Citroen C3 along Stroud Wood Road near...

Monday 15th March – Friday 19th March 2021 • Ian Dennis Kearns, 45, of Hunnyhill, Newport, pleaded guilty to using threatening/abusive/insulting words towards a police officer, criminal damage, and possession of a Class B drug (cannabis). Magistrates handed down a community...

The RSPCA has answered almost 1 million calls since the start of lockdown a year ago, and officers across the South East have dealt with 25,757 incidents - including over 400 here on the Isle of Wight. The charity has...

Monday 8th March – Friday 12th March 2021 • Dean McGuire, 46, of Kings Road in East Cowes, pleaded guilty to drink driving (109). He was disqualified from driving for 2 years and ordered to complete 150 hours of unpaid...

A motorcyclist who jumped a red light and crashed head-on into an oncoming vehicle has been given 9 points on his licence by Isle of Wight Magistrates. On 17th September last year, 39-year-old Richard Hicks, of Whitecross Avenue in Shanklin, was...

33-year-old Karl Weller-Adams has been jailed for a string of offences including assaulting a woman so badly that she has required multiple surgeries. Waller-Adams carried out the assault at an address in the Shanklin area on Sunday 29th November 2020...

2 men from Portsmouth have been charged with breaching COVID restrictions after being caught drinking in The Man in the Moon pub in Newport back in December. Caleb Clarkson, 18, of Cottage Grove in Southsea and Archie Tanner, 18, of...

Monday 1st March – Friday 5th March 2021   • Helen Louise Gibbons, 53, of Leed Street in Sandown, pleaded guilty to using violence to secure entry to a property and criminal damage (namely a Police van). She was made subject...

A 14-year-old girl attempted to murder her own grandmother at an address in Shanklin, an Isle of Wight court has heard this week. As first reported by Island Echo, a local teenager is facing a potential custodial sentence having been...

Monday 22nd February – Friday 26th February 2021   • Nigel Glyndore Wilbee, 77, of St Mary's Close in Ryde, pleaded guilty to drink driving (61) and failing to stop following an accident. He was disqualified from driving for 17...