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DRIVING BAN FOR CASSFORD AFTER CRASHING MOTORCYCLE AND LEAVING INJURED FRIEND
23-year-old Alan Cassford has been banned from driving for 12 months after not only crashing his friend's motorcycle, which he did not have a licence to drive, but leaving his seriously injured mate too. It was on the evening of...
Read moreDetailsCROWN COURT SENTENCING DATE FOR MAN WHO TOLD EX HE’D ‘SMASH HER PLACE UP’
A Ventnor man who told an ex-partner he would 'smash her place up' and commit an arson attack is to be sentenced at the Isle of Wight Crown Court next month. Joshua Honan-Parr, 25, of Ocean View Road in Ventnor,...
Read moreDetailsMAN WHO THREATENED KEBAB HOUSE STAFF AND ATTACKED WOMAN FOUND GUILTY BY MAGISTRATES
An East Cowes man who attacked a woman inside a kebab shop in Newport - and told a worker that he would 'cut them up like kebab meat' - is to be sentenced in March. Jack Taylor, 25, of Captains...
Read moreDetailsTRANSIT DRIVER WHO FAILED TO STOP AT CRASH SCENE WAS TWICE THE DRINK-DRIVE LIMIT
A 47-year-old Newport man who crashed a van into several parked cars in Shanklin, before fleeing the scene, was drunk at the time, a court has heard. Shawn Cooke, of Mayfield Drive, appeared before the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court...
Read moreDetailsLATEST CASES AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT MAGISTRATES COURT (15TH JANUARY – 19TH JANUARY 2024)
Monday 15th January – Friday 19th January 2024 • Paul Gardner, 41, of Lake Green Road in Lake, admitted failing to comply with the community requirements of a suspended sentence order. His suspended sentence of 12 weeks for activated. •...
Read moreDetails‘NASTY AND VIOLENT ABUSER’ PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSAULTS AGAINST WOMAN AND TEENAGE GIRL
A 'nasty and violent' domestic abuser, who changed his plea to guilty upon seeing his victims in court yesterday (Monday), is to be sentenced in March. 35-year-old Robert Church appeared before the Isle of Wight Crown Court on Monday (22nd...
Read moreDetailsMAN WHO ATTEMPTED TO BITE MOTHER’S HEAD ENTERS GUILTY PLEAS
An Island man who tried to bite his own mother on the head after demanding her purse and bank card is to be sentenced next month. Joshua Green, 34, of HMP Isle of Wight appeared by video link at the...
Read moreDetailsMAN WHO STOLE PASTIES AND QUICHE HANDED 18-MONTH CONDITIONAL DISCHARGE
A Sandown man who stole alcohol, clothes, pasties and even a quiche during a month-long theft spree has been handed an 18-month conditional discharge. Carl Etheridge, 48, of Royal Street in Sandown, admitted 4x theft from a shop when he...
Read moreDetails29-YEAR-OLD IN BREACH OF SUSPENDED SENTENCE AFTER FAILING TO STOP AT DUAL CARRIAGEWAY CRASH
29-year-old Callum Steele, who crashed his car on the dual carriageway but then failed to report the single-vehicle smash, has been found to be in breach of a Crown Court suspended sentence order. Steele, of Victoria Avenue in Shanklin, appeared...
Read moreDetailsWOMAN WHO CRASHED RANGE ROVER INTO PARKED CARS WAS TOO DRUNK TO SAY HOME ADDRESS
A Cowes woman who crashed her car whilst more than 3x the drink-drive limit is to be sentenced in March, less than 3 years after her previous drink-drive conviction. Natasha Cavanagh, 38, of St Andrews Street in Cowes, admitted drink...
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