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 2nd October – Friday 6th October 2023
• John Taylor, 73, of Argyll Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to assault by beating of an emergency worker. He was fined £68 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £27 surcharge.
• Eamonn Loughlin, 29, of High Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug of Class B – Cannabis. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £32 surcharge.
• Sherry-leigh Gallagher, 19, of George Street, Ryde pleaded guilty to drug driving (cannabis). She was banned from driving for 12 months, fined £80 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £32 surcharge.
• Josef Wilkins, 23, of Trafalgar Lane, Newport pleaded guilty to arson. He was handed a 18-month community order with 40 rehabilitation days attached. He was ordered to pay £301.36 compensation.
• David Berridge, 31, of Culver Parade, Sandown pleaded guilty to using threatening / abusive words / behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress, 4x theft from a shop and failing to surrender to bail. He was handed a 6-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £30.30 compensation.
• Ide Mccarthy, 63, of St Peters Court, Havenstreet pleaded guilty to drink driving (138 in urine). She was handed a 12-month ban, fined £725 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £290 surcharge.
• Thomas Kerr, 50, of Station Road, Brading pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug of Class A – cocaine and possession of a controlled drug of Class B – Cannabis. He was fined £140 and ordered to pay costs of £85 with a £56 surcharge.
• Aaron Horner, 41, of Cliff Road, Cowes pleaded guilty to 2x drug driving (cannabis). He was banned from the roads for 26 months and made subject to a 12-month community order with 160 hours of unpaid work and 20 rehabilitation days attached.He was ordered to pay £85 costs.
• George Pipes, 32, of Quay Lane, Brading pleaded guilty to drug driving (BZE). He was banned from driving for 24 months and made subject to a 12-month community order with 30 rehabilitation days and 120 hours of unpaid work attached. He was ordered to pay £85 costs with a £114 surcharge.
Single Justice Procedure
• Oliver Thompson, of Watergate Road in Newport, for speeding. He was fined £75 and saw his licence endorsed with 3 penalty points.
Ide Mccarthy, 63, of St Peters Court, Havenstreet pleaded guilty to drink driving (138 in urine). She was handed a 12-month ban, fined £725 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £290 surcharge.
She didn’t have much choice Southern Vectis don’t serve Havenstreet (obviously joking)
Ok.ide McCarthy. Gets £750 fine that hurts. But the rest get the £85 fine. If you are means tested. My tip is to hide you £ under your bed. The law on fines is a joke.
I take your point, she didn’t have much of a choice except not drink. I wouldn’t want to walk home from Ryde or Newport to Havenstreet after a few glasses of wine, maybe Island Roads would consider putting in a footpath for the residents of Havenstreet. By the way, I don’t live anywhere near Havenstreet!
Taxi perhaps…
I would like to know where all these people get cannabis on the island.
it’s a drug haven island just pop down to ryde anyone walking down the road will help you
Or take a walk along the beach!!
The island has always been the best place in the UK for weed! Used to get better weed there then Amsterdam!
Is that a rhetorical question a a genuine enquiry?….
Seems you get much more for drunk driving than when you beat up an emergency worker!??!
Where’s the deterrent or logic in that
It’s not called Drug Island for Nothing
Shame Alan T’ITmarsh did not mention the drug problem on his recent
TV Show
Why try and hide the truth
And after recent events I expect the price of coke to go down on the island. About time too, the price and quality has been shocking in recent years. Us poor folk has had to subsidise the kids dinner for mediocre hardcore drugs for too long now!
JOKING, BEFORE YOU VENT YOUR FAKE RAGE!