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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• Sean Stead, 56, of Flitcroft Gardens, Sandown – stole two sandwiches and two packs of ham worth £12.90 from the Co-Op in Sandown – fined £40 and ordered to pay £12.90 compensation.
• Lorelei Fisher, 20, of Forest Way, Sandown – stole men’s items, watches and boxed jewellery worth £61.96 from TK Maxx in Newport with another person – ordered to pay £61.96 compensation.
• Jimmy Ashby, 33, of Ashey Road, Ryde – drove while disqualified, without insurance and failed to stop for police in Wootton – given a community order with up to 35 rehabilitation activity days, disqualified from driving for 45 months, fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Paul Smart, 39, of Leigh Road, Eastleigh – stole hot food and cold coffee items worth £16.50 from the Co-Op in Sandown and breached a community protection notice – jailed for eight weeks, with compensation of £16.50 ordered.
• Kya Malston, 22, of George Street, Ryde – stole food and alcohol worth £55.60 from Tesco Express in Newport with another person and separately stole Gucci and Hugo Boss fragrances worth £160 from Sports Direct in Newport – ordered to pay £215.60 compensation in total, plus £85 costs.
• Helen Gibbons, 58, of no fixed abode, Ryde – possessed cannabis in Newport – fined £80, ordered to pay £45 costs and a £32 surcharge, while the drugs were forfeited and destroyed.
• Danny Clift, 32, of Trafalgar Road, Newport – assaulted a man in Wootton Bridge and used threatening or abusive behaviour towards two women in Newport – given a community order until April 2027 with up to 15 rehabilitation activity days and 80 hours of unpaid work, and ordered to pay £100 costs.
• Samuel Kenney, 24, of Castle Road, Newport – drink-drove in Trafalgar Road, Newport, with 79 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – banned from driving for 20 months, reduced by 20 weeks if a course is completed, fined £350 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £140 surcharge.
• Paul Horton, 50, of Hungerberry Close, Shanklin – stalked a woman in Newport by sending letters, cards, flowers, calls and emails and attending near her address – given a community order until October 2026 with up to 35 rehabilitation activity days, fined £80, ordered to pay £85 costs and made subject to a restraining order until April 2028.
• Patrick O’Flynn, 42, of Lea Road, Sandown – made off without paying £33.30 for a Chinese takeaway in Sandown – ordered to pay £33.30 compensation and £85 costs.
• Wayne Gallop, 62, of The Fairway, Shanklin – breached a non-molestation order by posting about a woman on social media – given a community order until April 2027 with up to 15 rehabilitation activity days, fined £86, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 surcharge, and made subject to a restraining order until April 2028.
• Mark Wise, 70, of Landguard Manor Road, Shanklin – breached a restraining order by contacting and visiting a woman in Shanklin – fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Sarah Hammond, 19, of George Street, Ryde – drove with cannabis over the legal limit in her blood in Ryde – banned from driving for 16 months, fined £120 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge.
• Alice Hilton, 37, of Whitesmith Road, Newport – was found guilty of using a handheld mobile phone while driving in Wootton – banned from driving for six months, fined £415 and ordered to pay £325 costs and a £166 surcharge.
• Christopher Richards, 36, of Main Road, Bouldnor, Yarmouth – drink-drove in Freshwater with 78 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath – banned from driving for 20 months, reduced by 20 weeks if a course is completed, fined £550 and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £220 surcharge.
Drink and drug driving seems to be a regular trait
on Island roads.
Fit smart trackable tags to most of them so that shop sensors can detect a thief has entered the shop.
Shops should employ decent security.
Career low life danny gets £100 fine for beating someone up. Someone using a phone driving £900. Not saying the latter wrong but sonething is’nt right.
As you say, demis it’s all about easy targets now. Nobody easier to convict and soak than the motorist. Unless he or she is a habitual low life offender. Drive while disqualified with no insurance? That’ll be a mere £200, sir…and we’ll understand and not punish you if you don’t pay.
If there’s not enough prison spaces, build some more. But with current and progressively understandable attitudes to crime and punishment, I reckon we’re doomed anyway. Or am I being too pessimistic?
Thing is,the guy with phone has a job so gets hammered as they can extract money from him,shit head scum bag danny doesn’t ,that’s the difference