IN THE COURTS

A ROUND-UP of some of the recent cases before Portsmouth magistrates.

Elliott Davies, 30, of Titchfield Road, Titchfield, admittes assault by beating between February 17 and February 20 in Swanwick.

Magistrates jailed him for two months. He must pay a £128 surcharge.

He admitted damaging a door and body panels on a car during the same period but faced no separate penalty.

Damien Green, 46, of Chantry Road, Elson, Gosport, admitted driving while banned in Hollam Drive, Fareham, on March 16. Magistrates fined him £500 with a six-month ban, £50 surcharge and £85 costs. He also admitted having no insurance for the Ford Focus but received no separate penalty.

Scott Guy, 45, of Westland Drive, Lee-on-the-Solent, admitted producing four cannabis plants, a class B drug, on March 20 at home.

He was fined £500 with a £50 surcharge and £85 costs. An order was made to destroy the plants.

Matthew Harris, 33, of Kingsclere Avenue, Leigh Park, admitted two charges of drug-driving in Middle Park Way, Leigh Park, on December 29 last year.

He had Benzoylecgonine in his blood, a cocaine breakdown product, and cannabis. Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with a nine-month drug rehabilitation requirement.

He must pay a £90 surcharge and £50 costs.

He was banned from driving for 18 months.

Benjamin Keys, 27, of Havant Road, Drayton, admitted assaulting an emergency worker, a police officer, in Fareham, on April 21.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 40 hours' unpaid work.

He must pay a £95 surcharge and £85 costs.

Matthew Lethbridge, 36, of Landon Road, Gosport, admitted drink-driving in Southway, Gosport, on May 3.

A test showed he had 43 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35. He was fined £250 with a £34 surcharge and £85 costs to pay.

Magistrates banned him for 12 months.

He admitted resisting a police officer on the same day, and was fined £250.

Craig Mitchell, 43, of Goodwood Road, Gosport, admitted having a locking Stanley knife in public in Gosport on June 15.

Magistrates handed him a five-month jail term suspended for a year as it was his second offence involving a bladed article.

He must pay a £128 surcharge.

An order was made to destroy the knife.