This is your weekly round-up of some of the latest court cases heard at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court.
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• Ben Read, 27, of Burnt House Lane, Newport – failed to report a road accident after damaging a road sign in Freshwater on 7 September 2025. He was fined £116, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £46 surcharge, and received 5 penalty points on his driving licence.
• Haydn Wilcox, 47, of Melville Street, Ryde – used threatening and abusive behaviour intending to cause harassment in Ryde on 21 November 2025. He was fined £364, with £85 costs and a £146 surcharge.
• Allan Pearce, 60, of Barton Road, Newport – stole a bottle of wine worth £9.50 from Tesco Express in Newport on 6 November 2025. He was fined £40, with £50 costs and ordered to pay £9.50 compensation.
• Sian Parsons, 39, of St James Street, Newport – stole two pairs of trainers worth £149.98 from Sports Direct in Newport on 10 November 2025. She was ordered to pay £149.98 compensation.
• Michael Tanner, 33, of Kingsclere Avenue, Wroxall – resisted a police constable in Ventnor on 19 November 2025. He was fined £116 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Michelle Bowman, 47, of West Hill Road, Ryde – stole food items worth £40.20 from Sainsbury’s in Ryde on 30 October 2025. She was fined £40, ordered to pay £85 costs, a £16 surcharge, and £40.20 compensation.
• Mark Gulliver, 56, of Flitcroft Gardens, Sandown – admitted drug driving and possession of cannabis. He received a community order with drug rehabilitation and 25 rehabilitation days, was disqualified from driving for three years, fined £120, and the drugs were forfeited for destruction.
• Craig Sheriff, 39, of Barton Road, Newport – admitted multiple shop thefts and possession of LSD. He was given a community order with drug rehabilitation and 25 rehabilitation days, and ordered to pay £585 in compensation.
• Steven Kilshaw, 41, of Blackgang Road, Niton – admitted possession of cannabis. He was fined £80, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £32 surcharge, and the drugs were forfeited for destruction.
• Richard Herbert, 27, of Printers Mews, Shanklin – admitted assault by beating. He was fined £162 and ordered to pay £200 costs and a £65 surcharge.
• Joseph Gulliver, 43, of Culver Parade, Sandown and Union Street, Ryde – admitted multiple shop thefts, possession of cocaine, assault by beating and using threatening or abusive words or behaviour. He was given a community order with drug rehabilitation and 20 rehabilitation days, ordered to pay £1,323.17 in compensation, and the drugs were forfeited for destruction.
• Terry Watts, 37, of Playstreet Lane, Ryde – admitted aggravated vehicle taking, drug driving, and driving without insurance or a licence. He was sentenced to a community order with a programme requirement and 20 rehabilitation days, disqualified from driving for three years, and ordered to pay £300 compensation.
• Revai Shanganya, 40, of Victoria Street, Ventnor – admitted failing to provide a specimen for analysis. He received a community order with 180 hours of unpaid work, was disqualified from driving for 24 months (reducible with course), and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 surcharge.
• Cameron Russell, 19, of Ambassador Road, Leicester – admitted theft of underwear and socks from TK Maxx. He was fined £40, ordered to pay £69.97 compensation, £85 costs and a £16 surcharge.
• Kelly Woodeson-Bell, 40, of Spanners Close, Chale Green – admitted possession of cannabis. She was given a six-month conditional discharge, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £26 surcharge, and the drugs were forfeited for destruction.
• Joanne Tuckey, 55, of Nelson Road, Newport – admitted two counts of drug driving. She was fined £200, disqualified from driving for 24 months, and ordered to pay £85 costs and an £80 surcharge.
• Patrick Likosso, 47, of HMP Isle of Wight, Parkhurst Road, Newport – admitted possessing a mobile phone inside a prison without authority. He was jailed for eight months.
• Winston Sutherland, 58, of Western Road, Lewes – found guilty of failing to provide a specimen. He was fined £300, disqualified from driving for 12 months, and ordered to pay £775 costs and a £120 surcharge.
• Helen Gibbons, 58, of St Martins Road, Wroxall – admitted drug driving. She received a community order with mental health treatment and 25 rehabilitation days, and was disqualified from driving for three years.
• Matthew Blanchard, 51, of Victoria Crescent, Ryde – admitted theft of meat from Tesco. He was jailed for 16 weeks due to breach of a suspended sentence and repeat offending, and ordered to pay £87.76 compensation.
• Kevin Jenkins, 40, of Newport Road, Apse Heath – admitted speeding at 73mph in a 30mph zone. He was fined £623, disqualified from driving for 50 days, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £249 surcharge.
• Lily Woodward, 20, of Regent Street, Shanklin – admitted drug driving. She received a community order with a rehabilitation requirement, disqualified from driving for 24 months, and was ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 surcharge.
From what I am reading there is obviously a drug
problem on this small island.
73mph in a 30mph zone, say no more.
I have been saying for years speeding is rife on the Island.
It’s about time speed cameras were installed islandwide.
The persons responsible for road safety on the island need to
take a trip to the Big smoke and see what “REAL” road safety
looks like.
They have cameras on cameras and they have designated
cycle lanes.
The island has Fcuk all when it comes to combat road safety.
The 2 island MPs must have seen what road safety looks like
when they go to Westminster.
Make everywhere a blanket 60 and he’d only have gone 13 over the limit…
A blanket 20mph would be better, we need to STOP
Numpties speeding
No thanks. You cannot punish the many for the actions of a few.
Designated cycle lanes? but cyclists don’t use them, and then moan when they get beat off using a main road where a lane is provided. A you can sod off with your speed cameras. I’m not a person who uses excessive speed, but it would only encourage people to move in to vandalism and then the island would become even more of a race track.
Speed cameras work in the big smoke, if
policed correctly they will work on the island.
FACT!!
Sod off with your speed cameras… They’ll only encourage vandalism and then the Island will become even more of a race track. And as for your designated cycle lanes, what’s the bloody point if the cyclists don’t use them? Then they moan if they get knocked off on a main road where a cycle lane was provided but they chose not to use it. If you want to start anywhere, it’s got to be tax and insurance for pushbike users.
If cyclists don’t use cycle lanes Dave, perhaps there’s a reason why? Maybe they’re full of potholes, or never swept, or maybe they force the cyclists to give way to every driveway, or they’ve got traffic sign poles in the middle. The list goes on …..
No excuses, cyclists should use them, would they
like using them.
Double tax them if they wear lycra and ride like pillocks 3 a breast on country lanes
Only double tax!, lol
Don’t forget insurance too.
If you don’t break the law, why fear speed cameras.
Only the Isle of Wight doesn’t have speed Cameras in 2026.
No wonder island roads are UNSAFE
73 in a 30? No points or drug tests? Nothing to do with his dad being a mason
The island is a strange place when it comes to rules, it
runs on an who you know basis.
Another round of slapped wrists and stern telling offs! The only person getting any actual prison time is the bloke already in prison who got caught with a mobile phone!!!
We need stricter rules, the island is like Dodge City
LAWLESS