COURT ROUND-UP
Skylark Way, Burgess Hill, pleaded guilty to four charges of assaulting a police officer by beating. The offence took place at Haywards Heath on July 16. She also pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour at Haywards Heath on the same date. The court made a community order with an alcohol treatment requirement and ordered her to pay £500 in compensation.
Slah Hassine, 51, of Junction Road, Burgess Hill, pleaded guilty to driving a Volkswagen vehicle on Cuckfield Road, Staplefield, on February 23, with cannabis and the controlled drug Benzoylecgonine in his blood stream. He was fined £120 and banned from driving for one year.
September 17:
Cheri-Anne Shepherd, 43, of Bentswood Crescent, Haywards Heath, was found guilty of using racially and religiously aggravated threatening behaviour. The offence took place at Hassocks railway station on October 4, last year. She was sentenced to six weeks in prison, suspended for one year. Magistrates said the reason for the sentence was a ‘sustained incident, in a public place and there were a number of comments made with distress caused to victim.’ She was ordered to pay £100 in compensation and £300 in prosecution costs.
September 21:
Daniel Trudel, 45, of Lodgelands, Ardingly, indicated a plea of guilty to being in possession of a quantity of cannabis at Three Bridges railway station on April 26. He was fined £80.
Laura Holbrook, 41, of Lewes Road, Scaynes Hill, pleaded guilty of being in charge of a dog that was dangerously out of control and which injured a police officer, in a private dwelling at Scaynes Hill, on August 22. She was given a six month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 in compensation.
September 22:
Jamie McHugh, 37, of Copthorne Road, East Grinstead, was found guilty of failing to provide information relating to the identity of the driver of a Land Rover vehicle who was alleged to have been guilty of an offence in Sussex on July 30, last year. He was fined £660 and ordered to pay £250 in prosecution costs. He was banned from driving for six months.