This is your weekly round-up of some of the latest court cases heard at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court.
The defendant’s name, age, address and details of the charge(s) and sentence are published in accordance with Criminal Procedure Rule 5.8, as agreed by HMCTS and the Society of Editors and approved by the Lord Chancellor. Not all cases heard will appear on this round-up due to legal restrictions.
This article is published from official information issued by HM Courts and Tribunal Service and is covered by qualified privilege. Please note: names/details of convictions will not be removed from this article on the basis of the convicted individual or their families requesting such action.
Monday 20th March – Friday 24th March 2023
• Jack Walton, 23, of High Street, Cowes pleaded guilty to drug driving (Benzoylecgonine). He was banned from driving for 12 months, fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge.
• Jason Nicholls, 47, of Sandown Bay Holiday Centre, Yaverland pleaded guilty to using threatening / abusive / insulting words / behaviour with intent to cause fear of / provoke unlawful violence and possession of a Class B drug (cannabis). He was made subject to a 18-month community order with 35 rehabilitation days and a 9 month alcohol treatment requirement. He was ordered to pay £85 costs with a £154 surcharge.
• Mark Wise, 66, of Landguard Manor Road, Shanklin pleaded guilty to breach of a restraining order and assault by beating of an emergency worker. He was sentenced to 8 weeks in custody, fined £140 and ordered to pay a £154 surcharge.
• Benjamin Charles, 32, of Cross Lane, Newport pleaded guilty to 2 counts of using threatening / abusive / insulting words / behaviour to cause harassment / alarm / distress and 1 count of failing to comply with a Section 35 direction . He was sentenced to 7 weeks in custody concurrently.
• Jamie Mcclelland, 40, of Cromwell Avenue, East Cowes pleaded guilty to 2 counts of driving whilst disqualified, and 2 counts of driving without insurance. He was sentenced to 8 weeks in custody, suspended for 12 months, as well as being banned from driving for 18 months. He was ordered to complete 25 rehabilitation days and pay £85 costs with a £154 surcharge.
• Michael Provette, 47, of Manor Road, Worthing, West Sussex was found guilty to driving without due care and attention. He was handed 5 points on his licence, fined £120 and ordered to pay £650 costs and a £34 surcharge.
• Daniel Lewis, 27, of Church Road, Havenstreet pleaded guilty to criminal damage. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £50 compensation, £85 costs and a £26 surcharge.
• Christopher O’Toole, 37, of Hawthorn Close, Ryde pleaded guilty to drink driving (54), driving without a licence, driving without insurance and obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty. He was disqualified from driving for 16 months and made subject to a 12-month community order with 16 rehabilitation days and a 6-month alcohol treatment requirement. He was ordered to pay £200 compensation.
• Cameron Younie, 18, of Westfield Park, Ryde pleaded guilty to possession of Class B drugs (cannabis). He was handed a 6-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £20 surcharge.
• Kevin Gallagher, 60, of Newport Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to using threatening / abusive / insulting words / behaviour with intent to cause fear of / provoke unlawful violence. He was handed a 18-month community order with a 9-month alcohol treatment requirement and 30 rehabilitation days attached. He was ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Michael Weaving, 39, Esplanade, Ryde pleaded guilty to drug driving (cocaine), drug driving (cannabis) and drug driving (BZE). He was banned from driving for 28 months and made subject to a 12-month community order with 120 hours of unpaid work. He was banned from driving for 28 months and given a community order for 12 monthswith 120 hours of unpaid work attached. He was ordered to pay £85 costs with a £114 surcharge.
• Kevin Gallagher, 60, of Newport Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis. He was banned from driving for 24 months and made subject to a 18-month community order. He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £114 surcharge.
Warrants
• George Swain, 24, of Atherley Road, Shanklin for possession of a controlled drug of Class A (cocaine), possession of Class A (MDMA), possession of Class A (Methadone), possession of Class B (Amphetamine) and possession of Class B (cannabis).
Seems there’s a few people here in need of some support and guidance. Time us islanders pulled together to help out our own.
How? Pay off their fines perhaps? Get them more drugs?
You do realise that by the time they get to court they will probably have spent years making other peoples lives a misery don’t you? Drug/Drink drivers haven’t been caught on their first time driving under the influence, they will have been endangering us all for months or years. The time for intervention is when they start down the path of becoming a PITA, perhaps even when they were young enough to understand that their actions have a detrimental effect on all around them. Ho hum, life goes on.
Seems to me that you posted your comment just to provoke a negertive reaction.
They need to grow up and take responsibility for their actions. Women seem to manage
What is this unpaid work that they have to do?
They don’t..stand round fag or vap chatting with their fellow scum..then let go early because the poor sod over seeing them doesnt want to get grieve of them.
Not all of them are taking the proverbial. We have a group who do work at Ventnor Cemetery and they are all polite, willing to get on with whatever they are asked to do and make a massive difference to the area. Maybe it is the supervisor who helps, but the ones I have met have ALL been great. I am sure there are those with their own ideas about the scheme, but having met them and seen what they can accomplish it certainly works in some circumstances.
Excellent response Damivel and maybe one day someone in ‘civilized society’ will realise that many of us make mistakes and have to pay for such, but that doesn’t make us all bad and neither, monsters that should never see daylight!!
We’re not all the same, there are always two sides to a coin and we shouldn’t all be tarnished by the same brush, by idiots that know no better than an active imagination, maybe? 🙁
That’s really nice to hear! Something positive on here for a change, lol
Why/ Are you looking for some?
I could do with some help! House cleaning, car washing!
Be useful if Island Echo could hang around the courts and take photos of these miscreants. They could then publish them next to the crime report. Be good if we could put a face to name.
Bring back the stocks!
Do we have a new magistrate working this week? We have a few remanded in custody, some serious bans and just for once, very little to complain about.. how nice!
5 points and £120 fine after hitting a biker at a traffic light and causing the guy to have a broken back, leg and foot which is waiting on amputation doesn’t sound serious to me.
I’m not sure 5 points and £120 fine is nice after leaving a guy waiting on amputation because he was hit at a traffic light.
I believe the biggest problem and threat to the law abiding motorists on our roads is the laughable punishments handed down to the disqualified, unlicensed, uninsured, drink and or drug drivers. A custodial sentence should be mandatory. These people are a danger to law abiding motorists and pedestrians. Handing out driving bans etc serves no purpose nor prevents the offenders from getting straight back behind the wheel.
All men…. all the time