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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• Luke West, 34, of HMP Swaleside – possessed a mobile phone without authority inside HMP Isle of Wight (Albany) – sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, to run consecutively to existing terms. No costs or surcharge due to limited means as a serving prisoner.
• Alex Cooper, 27, of Oaklyn Gardens, Shanklin – stole a Lost Mary vape worth £13.99 from APE Vapes in Newport – ordered to pay £63.99 compensation. No costs due to limited means and outstanding account.
• David Yates, 44, of Spanners Close, Chale – drove on Chequers Inn Road in Ventnor while over the alcohol limit and with cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system – sentenced to a community order with 15 days of rehabilitation activity, fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs, and disqualified from driving for 24 months. Guilty pleas were taken into account for all matters.
• Cliff Church, 50, of Brook Road, Shanklin – failed to surrender to bail on two separate occasions and harassed a woman in Wroxall by repeatedly visiting her home and leaving items despite a police warning – fined £40, ordered to pay a £114 surcharge, made subject to a restraining order until 1 January 2027, and sentenced to a community order with 10 days of rehabilitation activity. No separate penalties were imposed for the bail offences.
• Jason Blake, 39, of High Street, Ryde – stole two men’s coats worth £124.98 from TK Maxx in Newport – sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge.
• Fazal Sidiqkhil, 34, of HMP Isle of Wight (Albany) – possessed a mobile phone without authority inside HMP Albany – sentenced to 8 months’ imprisonment, to run consecutively to existing terms. No costs or surcharge due to limited means as a serving prisoner.
• Ciaran Magee, 23, of Upper Yarborough Road, East Cowes – in Eltham, Greenwich, assaulted a man causing actual bodily harm, assaulted a paramedic, and damaged an ambulance floor – sentenced to 8 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for 12 months, with 25 days of rehabilitation activity, and ordered to pay £450 compensation in total. No separate penalty was imposed for the damage due to compensation prioritisation.
• Carl Chapillon, 39, of Lodge Close, Brighstone – failed to notify police of his return to the UK in breach of the Sex Offenders Register – fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £114 surcharge, and sentenced to a community order with 10 days of rehabilitation activity.
No excuses for assaulting a paramedic and
damaging an Ambulance.
Only a suspended sentence
NO DETERRENT AT ALL
Why is it that two prisoners who possessed a mobile phone without authority inside HMP Isle of Wight (Albany) were given two different sentences for the same crime? One got 12 months (Luke West), the other only got 8 months (Fazal Sidiqkhil).
Possibly the activities which could be proven to have been undertaken on the phone by each inmate.
Considering approximately 98% of the inmates there are sex offenders, it doesn’t take much imagination as to what they wanted a phone for.
No doubt that is why they received a moderatively high consecutive sentence each.
One was just looking up goats
I see what you did there. 😉