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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• Paul Smart, 39, of no fixed abode, was sentenced for multiple shop thefts and an attempted shop theft in Sandown and Shanklin, as well as possession of cannabis and failing to provide a drug sample. He received an 8-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months for all offences, with compensation totalling £91.35 and forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis.
• Luke Connolly, 29, of Lugley Street, Newport, was fined £40 and ordered to pay £23.40 compensation and £85 costs after stealing lamb steaks worth £23.40 from a supermarket.
• Lewis Dewick, 35, of Parkhurst Road, Newport, was disqualified from driving for 16 months and fined £200 with £85 costs after driving with a controlled drug above the limit. He was also disqualified for 16 months for drink driving, and sentenced for no insurance and no licence offences (endorsed, no separate penalty), along with two shop thefts, for which he was ordered to pay compensation totalling £96.95.
• Jason Blake, 39, of no fixed abode, was fined £200 and ordered to pay £148.05 compensation for a shop theft. Further shop thefts and a public order offence were taken into account, with an overall Band D fine covering all offences.
• Charles Owen, 29, of Avenue Road, Wroxall, was fined £578 and disqualified from driving for 20 months (reduced by 20 weeks if a course is completed) after drink driving, and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £235 surcharge.
• Rachel Hewitt, 42, of Fort Street, Sandown, was fined £120 and ordered to pay £21.15 compensation after jointly stealing goods worth £42.30 from a shop.
• Susannah Hallett, 30, of Amherst Place, Ryde, was fined £80, disqualified from driving for 20 months, and ordered to pay £85 costs after driving while unfit through drugs. A no insurance offence was endorsed with no separate penalty.
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Drink driving
Drug driving
and Pilferers
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bred rogues or imported rogues!