Reports from the courts: the latest cases from the Mansfield and Ashfield area

Here are some of the cases heard recently at the magistrates’ courts in Nottinghamshire.

Gavin Clark, 49, of Sandfield Close, Mansfield, admitted: drunk and disorderly in a public place. Fine: £40.

Samantha Davidson, 37, of Market Place, Mansfield, admitted: common assault of an emergency worker. Conditional discharge: 6 months. Compensation: £75.

Tracey Thorpe, 46, of Oak Avenue, Blidworth, admitted: drive with 45 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: 14 months. Fine: £120.

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Mansfield Magistrates court, Rosemary Street.

Shelbi Cheetham, 28, of Diamond Avenue, Kirkby, admitted: assault by beating. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Mental health treatment: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 12 days. Fine: £40.F

Sean Gannon, 60, of Fitzherbert Street, Warsop, Mansfield, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 84 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 22 months, disqualification reduction period: 22 weeks. Fine: £120.

Owen Smithyman, 21, of Langham Place, Mansfield, admitted: drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cannabis, drive otherwise than in accordance with a licence and without third party insurance, common assault of an emergency worker, possess a controlled drug of class B - cannabis. Compensation: £75. Fine: £966. Disqualification period: 12 months.

Kyle Bennett, 21, of John Street, Worksop, admitted: drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cannabis, drive otherwise than in accordance with a licence, without third party insurance, and use motor vehicle / trailer - tyre less than 1 mm tread. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £80. Disqualification period: 18 months. Fine: £200.

Stacey Thredder, 29, of Headstock Place, Bilsthorpe, admitted: drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cannabis. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Disqualification period: 12 months. Fine: £120.

Michal Ignatowicz, 38, of Sookholme Road, Shirebrook, admitted: drunk and disorderly in a public place, and possess knife blade / sharp pointed article in a public place. Costs: £85. Community order: 12 months. Alcohol abstinence and monitoring: 120 days. Rehabilitation activity: 15 days. Unpaid work: 200 hours.

Jim Price, 32, of Back Lane, Sutton, admitted: possess a flick knife or gravity knife and possess an offensive weapon in private place. Conditional discharge: 6 months. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £26.

Kylie Betts, 38, of Poplar Avenue, Kirkby, admitted: drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cocaine, and without third party insurance. Costs: £85. Disqualification period: 12 months. Fine: £120.

Marshall Grice, 19, of Brough Lane, Elkesley, Retford, admitted: drive without due care and attention, otherwise than in accordance with a licence, fail to wear protective headgear, and drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a controlled drug above the specified limit, namely cannabis. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 12 days. Disqualification period: 24 months. Fine: £40.

Joanne Gregg, 51, of Eakring Road, Mansfield, admitted: cause serious injury by careless / inconsiderate driving. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £187. Disqualification period: 12 months. Imprisonment period: 12 months, suspended period: 12 months.

Brandon Higgs, 26, of Nottingham Road, Mansfield, admitted: assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Unpaid work: 132 hours. Compensation: £250.

Mark Humphrey, 44, of Forest Hill Road, Worksop, admitted: fail to stop a mechanically propelled vehicle when required by a constable, and drive without third party insurance. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £166. Fine: £415.

George Burton, 55, of Sandhill Street, Worksop, admitted: drive without reasonable consideration to other users, and fail to stop a mechanically propelled vehicle when required by constable / traffic warden. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £32. Fine: £80. Driving record endorsed with 6 penalty points.

James Whitefield, 63, of Mansfield Road, Blidworth, admited: assault by beating. Compensation: £100.

Darius Obrikas, 48, of Barton Court, Mansfield, admitted: drive otherwise than in accordance with a licence, and fail to provide specimen for analysis - vehicle driver. Costs: £85. Disqualification period: 14 months, disqualification reduction period: 14 weeks. Fine: £120.

Liam Smithurst, 36, of Sutton Road, Mansfield, admitted: fail to provide specimen for analysis - vehicle driver. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Unpaid work: 66 hours. Disqualification period: 20 months, disqualification reduction period: 20 weeks.

Steven Roberts, 48, of Coniston Road, Worksop, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 89 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Mental health treatment: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 5 days. Disqualification period: 22 months, disqualification reduction period: 22 weeks. Fine: £246.

Roman Sobczyk, 32, of Stirling Close, Worksop, admitted: drunken person in possession of a loaded firearm, namely a metal bodied gas powered BB gun. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £32. Defendant to be deprived of this property: BB gun and pellets. Fine: £80.

Jamie Corby, 44, of Potter Street, Worksop, admitted: theft from a shop. Compensation: £33.98. Costs: £85. Fine: £40.

Mason Raynor, 37, of Meadow Close, Edwinstowe, Mansfield, admitted: harassment - breach of a restraining order on conviction, and stalking without fear / alarm / distress. Imprisonment period: 8 months, suspended period: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 10 days. Unpaid work: 200 hours. Costs: £85.

Ewa Motyka, 43, of Wainwright Avenue, Mansfield, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 83 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: £110. Disqualification period: 20 months, disqualification reduction period: 20 weeks. Fine: £276.

Ciara Hunter, 28, of Rampton Hospital, Woodbeck, admitted: assault a person thereby occasioning them actual bodily harm. Compensation: £300.

Benjamin Sofflet, 50, of Gala Way, Retford, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 94 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £480. Disqualification period: 23 months, disqualification reduction period: 23 weeks. Fine: £1200.

Mason Coyne, 18, of Blenheim Road, Lindholm, Doncaster, admitted: fail to stop a mechanically propelled vehicle when required by constable / traffic warden, and drive a motor vehicle dangerously. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £48. Community order: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 12 days. Disqualification period: 12 months. Fine: £120.

Steven Edwards, 35, of Houfton Road, Mansfield, admitted: drive motor vehicle with 101 microgrammes of alcohol when the legal limit is 35 microgrammes. Costs: £85. Surcharge: £114. Community order: 12 months. Rehabilitation activity: 12 days. Unpaid work: 50 hours. Disqualification period: 25 months, disqualification reduction period: 25 weeks.

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