Assaults, shoplifting, and motoring offences among latest cases before Nottingham Magistrates’ Court
Assaults, shoplifting, and drug-driving offences were among the latest cases from the area to be heard at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court.
•Bogdan Mandache, 28, of Hatchets Lane, Newark, was disqualified from driving when he appeared at the court on October 13.
The speeding motorist was recorded at 37mph on the 30mph limited Lincoln Road, Newark, on August 28, 2024, which he admitted.
Mandache was disqualified for six months, had three points added to his licence, and was fined £133.
He must also pay costs of £173.
• Westley Brightwell, 19, of Portland Street, Newark, was sentenced on October 17.
He admitted to assaulting a person, occasioning them actual bodily harm, on April 4 at Morrisons, Newark, and possession of class B cannabis and cannabis resin on the same day at Mansfield Police Station.
For the assault, Brightwell was sentenced to 16 week in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £300 in compensation and complete ten days of rehabilitation activity.
The drugs were ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.
• Haydon Rawson, 19, of College Close, Newark, was also sentenced for assault of the same victim on the same day.
He admitted to assaulting a person, occasioning them actual bodily harm, on April 4 at Morrisons, Newark.
Rawson was sentenced to 24 weeks in custody, suspended for 12 months. He must also pay £300 in compensation, and take part in 20 days of rehabilitation activity.
• Nathan Lee, 27, of Beech Avenue, Ollerton, was also before the court.
Lee admitted to driving a Mercedes while disqualified and without insurance on June 26, on Walesby Lane, Ollerton.
For the driving while disqualified offence he was disqualified for two years, and sentenced to ten weeks in prison suspended for 12 months. He must also pay costs of £154.
No separate penalty was given for the uninsured driving.
• Terry Mcnulty, 45, of Monarch Place, Newark, faced justice for multiple offences on October 17.
He admitted to an assault which took place at Monarch Place on February 24, and two further assaults on another two people at the same location on June 15.
Mcnulty also admitted the theft of a £13.80 pack of cigarettes from Newark News on September 13, and a second theft of cigarettes to a value unknown from the same shop on October 7.
He was conditionally discharged for 12 months for each offence, ordered to pay £100 in compensation for the February assault, and costs of £111.
• Vicki Partridge, 36, of Christopher Crescent, Balderton, was handed a suspended sentence on October 17 for inflicting grievous bodily harm on another person.
The offence, which Partridge admitted, took place at the Corn Exchange, Newark, on February 10, 2024.
She was sentenced to six months in prison, suspended for 12 months, 15 days of rehabilitation activity, and must pay £1,000 in compensation.
• Appearing on the same day, Gwendoline Cozens, 77, of Caythorpe Road, Caythorpe, was barred from the roads for drink-driving.
Cozens admitted to driving on Holme Close, Woodborough, with 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath on September 29.
Her disqualification is for 12 months, with a reduction on completion of a course. She was also fined £80 and ordered to pay costs of £117.
• Christopher Conroy, 36, of Bowbridge Road, Newark, pleaded guilty to stealing items worth £91 when he appeared on October 17.
Conroy stole the items from Co-Op, Bowbridge Road, on August 12.
He was ordered to pay £91 in compensation, a fine of £40, and costs of £101.
• On October 20, Sijumol Mathew, 43, of Forest Road, Ollerton, was sentenced for driving without due care and attention.
The Toyota driver admitted the offence, which occurred on Forest Road, on June 13, and was given a fine of £230, and two penalty points.
Costs of £222 were also imposed.
• Maxine Jones, 65, of Meyrick Road, Newark, was before the court on the same day.
Jones admitted to assaulting a police officer on Northgate, Newark, on July 15; and causing criminal damage to a vehicle belonging to another person, on Meyrick Road, on July 26.
For both offences she recieved a 12 month conditional discharge, and was ordered to pay £100 in compensation for each.
• Drug-driver Morgan Edwards, 30, of Carnarvon Close, Bingham, was sentenced on October 24, after admitted a host of motoring offences.
On June 7, Edwards drove a Vauxhall on Manifold Gardens, Nottingham, while under the influence of benzoylecgonine, cocaine, and cannabis.
The motorist was also uninsured, and had no licence as it had been revoked on account of disability.
For each of the drug driving offences, Edwards was disqualified from driving for 18 months, and ordered to complete 15 days of rehabilitation activity. No separate penalty was imposed for the other offences.
Edwards must also pay costs of £199.
• Shoplifter Stephen Peacock, 65, of Bakewell Close, Balderton, was jailed for a string of offences on October 25.
On September 29 he stole five packets of roasting meats worth £150; on October 3 he made off with £120 worth of meat; on October 12 he took £200 of meat; and on October 20 he stole two lamb joints worth £70.
He admitted all the thefts, which were from Marks and Spencer on Maltings Retail Park.
Peacock was sentenced to a total of 20 weeks in prison, with the same sentence handed to be served concurrently for each offence, due to the thefts being committed while he was on conditional discharge. He must also pay £200 in compensation for the October 12 theft.
•On the same day, shoplifter James Bunch, 37, of Strawberry Hall Lane, Newark, was jailed for multiple shop thefts.
On October 11, Bunch stole £85.91 of washing tablets and pods from B&M; on October 12 he took £53.85 of washing pods from B&M; and on October 15 stole £80 of washing pods from B&M.
He admitted all of the offences, and was handed a four week prison sentence for each, to be served consecutively.
• George Barrie, 24, of Millgate, Newark, was sentenced for a sexual assault on October 27.
Barrie admitted to two counts of intentionally touching a woman aged 16 or over without consent, at the City Ground, West Bridgford, on August 17, 2024.
He was for each ordered to complete 16 days of rehabilitation activity, was made subject to a three-year football banning order preventing him from being in the vicinity of the City Ground four hours prior to kick off, and six hours after kick off on matchdays, or within ten miles of the relevant stadium for a Forest away game or England game for the same duration.
He was also fined £200, and ordered to pay costs of £85.
• Meagan Miller, 25, of Queens Court, Bingham, was disqualified from driving when she appeared before court on October 27.
On May 25, she failed to give police information relating to the identification of the driver of a Volkswagen, who was alleged to have been guilty of an offence; and again on May 28.
For each she was fined £392 and had six points added to her licence, which resulted in a six month disqualification.
Miller must also pay costs of £504.
• On the same day, Christopher Jenkins-Coupe, 38, of Portland Street, Newark, was sentenced.
He had been found guilty of, on May 23, causing criminal damage to CCTV worth £200 belonging to another person.
Jenkins-Coupe was ordered to pay £36.25 in compensation, and was fined £120.