Reports from the courts: the latest cases from Mansfield and Ashfield
Here are some of the cases from the Mansfield and Ashfield area heard recently at the magistrates’ courts.
Jack Collingham, 21, of French Terrace, Langworth, Mansfield, admitted: driver of a vehicle fail to stop after a road accident, and drive motor vehicle with 89 milligrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 80 milligrammes. Fine: £274. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £219. Disqualification period: 12 months, disqualification reduction period: 3 months.
Brandan Fletcher, 27, of Grange Avenue, Mansfield, admitted: drive without third party insurance and otherwise than in accordance with a licence. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Fine: £120. Driving record endorsed with 8 penalty points.
Lovepreet Singh, 31, of Oakfield Avenue, Warsop, Mansfield, admitted: fail to provide specimen for analysis - vehicle driver. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 12 months, disqualification reduction period: 3 months. Fine: £120.


Raymond Canham, 52, of Forest Road, Ollerton, admitted: drive a motor vehicle which had been taken without the owner's consent, otherwise than in accordance with a licence and without third party insurance. Fine: £120. Costs: £85. Disqualification period: 6 months.
Darren Rabbit, 46, of Portland Avenue, Kirkby, admitted: drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cocaine. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 14 months. Fine: £120.
Richard Greenwood, 38, of Woodhouse Road, Mansfield, admitted: criminal damage. Costs: £85. Compensation: £100. Fine: £80.
Hawkar Omar-Abdullah, 34, of Titchfield Street, Mansfield, admitted: common assault. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £26. Conditional discharge: 12 months.
Rebecca Hikin, 39, of Willoughby Gardens, Rainworth, admitted: theft from a shop. Compensation: £119.87.
Robert Winter, 34, of the Quadrangle, Blidworth, admitted: assault by beating. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 18 months. Rehabilitation activity: 6 days. Fine: £20.
Ryan Ward, 40, c/o Wood Street, Mansfield, admitted: possess a controlled drug of class B - mamba. Imprisonment period: 8 weeks, suspended period: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 6 days.
Nadarasasa Selvasothy, 56, of Bowne Street, Sutton, admitted: drive without third party insurance, and drive whilst disqualified. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £80. Disqualification period: 17 months. Fine: £200.
Timothy Wilkinson, 35, of Cowpes Close, Sutton, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 75 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 36 months, disqualification reduction period: 36 weeks. Fine: £120.
Elton Ball, 51, of Abbotts Croft, Mansfield, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 49 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes, without third party insurance, and otherwise than in accordance with a licence. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 15 months, disqualification reduction period: 15 weeks. Fine: £120.