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 Porter Court, Flitcroft Gardens, Sandown – stole electrical goods worth £59.99 from TK Maxx in Newport and was ordered to pay £59.99 compensation. He also stole two electrical items worth £49.98 from the same store and was ordered to pay £49.98 compensation, to be paid at £20 per month from 1 April 2026.
• Matthew Blanchard, 51, of Linacre Road, Southampton – stole groceries worth £167.31 from Tesco Extra in Ryde and was ordered to pay £167.31 compensation. He also stole food items worth £85 from Tesco Express in Ryde and was ordered to pay £85 compensation.
• Sarah Hammond, 19, of George Street, Ryde – admitted possessing cocaine and cannabis in Ryde, with the drugs ordered to be forfeited and destroyed. She also admitted driving in Ryde with cannabis above the legal limit and was fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
• Sam Scott-Jackson, 35, of Green Street, Ryde – admitted a series of shop thefts from Tesco in Ryde between October 2024 and September 2025 involving alcohol and food items worth a total of £512.40. He was made subject to a community order until 12 February 2027 with up to 20 rehabilitation activity days and ordered to pay £512.40 compensation.
• Sean Bartlett, 42, of Union Road, Ryde – failed to provide driver information to police and was fined £660, ordered to pay £200 costs, and had six penalty points added to his licence.
• Clare Phipps, 57, of Monkton Street, Ryde – behaved in an indecent manner at Newport Police Station by shouting and swearing. She was fined £40 and ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Joshua Langley, 30, of no fixed abode, Totland Bay – failed to surrender to custody at the appointed time and was fined £40, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £16 surcharge, to be paid at £20 per month from 1 April 2026.
• Andit Tekelemariam, 35, of Parkhurst Road, Newport – assaulted a prison officer by throwing boiling water and sugar over him, causing injury. He was sentenced to 12 months in prison to run consecutively to his existing sentence and ordered to pay £85 costs.
• Dominic Crumby, 27, of New Lane, Havant – admitted using threatening behaviour in Ryde, with no separate penalty imposed. He also stole a bottle of vodka worth £24 from Tesco Extra in Ryde and was ordered to pay £24 compensation, and assaulted a man in Ryde, for which he was made subject to a community order until 12 February 2027 with up to 15 rehabilitation activity days and ordered to pay £100 compensation.
• Dan Hardy, 35, of Parkhurst Road, Newport – admitted possessing a mobile phone and a USB device inside HMP Isle of Wight. He was sentenced to nine weeks in prison to run concurrently with his existing sentence, ordered to pay a £154 surcharge, and the phone and USB were forfeited and destroyed.
• Wayne Paulson, 33, of Culver Parade, Sandown – assaulted a police officer and another man in Newport. He was made subject to a community order until 12 August 2027 with up to 25 rehabilitation activity days and ordered to pay £100 compensation in each case.
• Dominic Dunford, 27, of St Johns Hill, Ryde – damaged a window in Ryde causing £315 damage and was ordered to pay £315 compensation and £85 costs.
• James-Jake Barrett, 24, of Milton Close, Basingstoke – stole 30 chocolate tubs worth £180 from Sainsbury’s in Ryde and was ordered to pay £180 compensation.
• Megan Rodgers, 27, of Angelica Grove, Newport – used a handheld mobile phone while driving in Newport and was fined £261, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £104 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for six months.
• Geoffrey Last, 57, of Barton Road, Newport – assaulted a woman in Shanklin and was fined £162, ordered to pay £400 costs, a £65 surcharge and £50 compensation, to be paid by deductions from benefits at £20 per month.
• Harvey Charles, 26, of Sandham Close, Sandown – drove in Ryde while over the alcohol limit and was fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 21 months, reduced by 21 weeks if he completes a course.
• Poppy Harrison, 34, of South Bank Road, East Cowes – drove in East Cowes with cannabis above the legal limit and was fined £266, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £106 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
• Jenna Bragoli, 41, of Prospect Place, Llanelli – drove otherwise than in accordance with a licence in Newport and was fined £76, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £30 surcharge, and had three penalty points added to her licence.
• Michael John Gerrard, 44, of Golf Links Road, Bognor Regis – drove in Binstead with cannabis above the legal limit and was fined £120, ordered to pay £85 costs and a £48 surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
• Luke Whitewood, 31, of Coronation Gardens, Shanklin – used threatening behaviour in Lake and was fined £103 and ordered to pay £400 costs.
Lots of stealing from Tescos
Some people are taking their
“Every little helps” slogan to another
level.
The list of numpties is growing every week,
of the 20 this week 7 were vehicle related incidents.
Therefore 35% of the crimes listed.
We need more traffic Police to stop the rot.
Totally agree. I bought myself a car in January and two days later an iodiot on drugs crashed into mine and another vehicle and ran off. Car was not his own. I still don’t know if I will get the money back for what I paid for a car I only used twice. I work hard and saved up two years to buy my car. The car taken was a disable person’s car, so the idiot that caused the accident took cars away from 3 people.