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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Monday 16th December – Friday 20th December 2024
• Mazie Bailey, 22, of Atkinson Drive, in Newport, admitted assault a person occasioning them actual bodily harm. She was handed a 20-week suspended sentence for 18-months. She was also ordered to pay compensation of £250.
• Abbey Grant, 49, of Trattles Court, in Newport, admitted drug driving (THC). She was banned from driving for 14-months and fined £120. She was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a £48 surcharge fee.
• Leszek Berezniak, 34, of Fort Street in Sandown, admitted theft from a shop. He was ordered to pay compensation of £110.
• Raymond Delves, 52, of no fixed abode, admitted theft from a shop and common assault. He was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £23 compensation, £100 costs and a £26 surcharge fee.
• Jake Dunkling, 36, of no fixed abode, admitted 2x theft from a shop, assault of an emergency worker and possession of a controlled drug of class-B. He was fined £50 and ordered to pay compensation of £95.
• Callum Gulliver, 37, of Furze Hill Road in Shanklin, admitted obstruct a person in exercise of a section 23 power to detain/search a person/vehicle/vessel relating to drugs. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £32 surcharge fee.
• Roger Broomfield, 53, of Whitehouse Road in Newport, admitted drug driving. He was fined £500 and banned from the roads for 18-months. Broomfield was also ordered to pay costs of £930 and a £200 surcharge fee.
Drug driving is a big problem thesedays on
the island.
They need locking up.
Talk about “unfairness”. One female aged 49 gets caught Drug driving and gets a ban for just 14 months, fined £120, costs of £85 and a £48 surcharge.
Now a male aged 53 gets caught Drug driving gets a ban for 18 months, fined £500, costs of £930 and a surcharge of £200. Same offence but such a different punishment. I ask, why are the magistrates so biased between male and female? In my opinion, the female should have got the same as the male.
Gender doesn’t come into it, employment does.
if you have a job you get sentenced with a fine which is more of a deterrent and which you can pay,
if unemployed because you can’t pay a lot, you get away with it and you pay a minimum amount each week from your benefits, usually £5. Re-affending extends the payment time of that £5.
so, no deterrent if you are on benefits.
So stealing, attacking an emergency worker and being in possession of drugs rates a fine of around half the cost to my wife for being 5 mph over the limit in a 30 mph zone? That’s going to deter the real criminals for sure.