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.
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• Kole Shpendi, 31, of Bestwood Street, Southwark, London – possession with intent to supply a Class B drug – sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay a £154 surcharge. Cannabis was forfeited and ordered to be destroyed. [Appeared in Crown Court]
• Ezmae Samuel-McVeigh, 20, of Meaders Road, Ryde – speeding at 60mph in a 40mph zone on Parkhurst Road, Newport – fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and £48 surcharge, and received 5 penalty points.
• Gareth Furmidge, 46, of Church Road, Wootton Bridge – assault by beating – given a community order with 35 days of rehabilitation activity and ordered to pay £150 compensation.
• Donroy Joseph, 34, of HMP Albany – possession of a prohibited item in prison (mobile phone and USB device) – sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay £85 costs and £154 surcharge. The items were forfeited.
• Paul Smart, 39, of Fort Street, Sandown – committed multiple thefts from Co-op and other local stores in January and February 2026 – ordered to pay compensation totalling £57.75 across six incidents.
• James Smith, 41, of Park Mews, Sandown – theft of laundry products worth £52.70 from Tesco – sentenced to 2 weeks’ imprisonment (consecutive to a previous suspended sentence), and ordered to pay £85 costs and £52.70 compensation.
• Luke Burdett, 33, of Spanners Close, Chale Green – committed multiple shop thefts and used threatening behaviour toward staff between June 2025 and January 2026 – sentenced to a community order with 35 days’ rehabilitation activity and excluded from all TK Maxx, Morrisons, and Co-op stores on the Isle of Wight for 6 months. Ordered to pay £400.78 in total compensation across four offences.
• Malcolm Mattin, 72, of Pyle Street, Newport – breached a restraining order and separately committed racially aggravated harassment – sentenced to a total of 12 weeks’ imprisonment (concurrent), with a 4-week uplift due to the racial aggravation.
• Cameron Russell, 19, of Yelf’s Hotel, Ryde – stole boxer shorts on two occasions in November 2025 – fined £40 and ordered to pay £114.95 compensation across both incidents.
• Christian White, 46, of Fort Mews, Sandown – drink driving in Godshill with a blood alcohol level of 195mg – fined £270, ordered to pay £270 costs and £108 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 22 months, reducible by 22 weeks with course completion.
• Kalicia Rutherford, 20, of Nettlecombe Lane, Whitwell – drink driving in Brading – fined £161, ordered to pay £85 costs and £64 surcharge, and disqualified for 16 months, reducible by 16 weeks with course completion.
• Beau Bridgeman, 20, of Hope Road, Shanklin – assaulted a man and damaged a chair at KFC, Sandown – received a 9-month conditional discharge for the assault and was ordered to pay £20 compensation for the damage.
• Alex Graham, 27, of Horsebridge Hill, Newport – used a handheld mobile phone while driving on Medina Way – fined £307 and received 6 penalty points.
• Billy Chilcott, 31, of No Fixed Abode, Sandown – burglary at Boots, Sandown, stealing medication, money, and a charity box – sentenced to 26 weeks’ imprisonment and ordered to pay £100 compensation.
• Luke Edgington, 37, of Nippert Court, Newport – stole Blu-rays from Asda on two occasions in late 2025 – ordered to pay a total of £457 in compensation.
So many numpties are still drink driving and
some using mobile phones whilst driving,
some people never learn.
It’s amazing how many van drivers you still see
using mobiles whilst driving.
The island needs decent prevention cameras islandwide
to catch such persons.
Bans and heavy fines are the best medicine, once you
affect ones pocket it seems to work.
Well done catching the numpties and making our
roads safer.
I wish I could spend all day making comments on every island echo story
It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it
Lol
Retirement ain’t easy, you need to try it some
time.
Have a day off mate!!! Nobody cares about your opinions on every single story on here!!!
So you send a guy to prison for selling plants, but you give probation to a burglar and theif….. make it make sense
“Donroy Joseph, 34, of HMP Albany – possession of a prohibited item in prison (mobile phone and USB device) – sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay £85 costs and £154 surcharge. The items were forfeited.”
It seems the prison services are cracking down on mobiles in our prison, as there seems to be a lot of heavy sentences for this activity. And for good reason. Roughly 98% of the prisoners there are in for sex crimes.