IN THE COURTS

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

Ross Booth, 30, of Atlantis Avenue, Purbrook, Waterlooville, was found guilty of failing to give a specimen of blood on November 3 last year and was fined £120.

Hemustpaya£34 surcharge and £310 costs. Booth was banned from driving for 16 months.

Christopher Blades ,50,of Waverley Road, Southsea, was handed 23 days in jail in default for not paying an £816 court fine.

Ben Siddle, 22, of Skylark Avenue, Emsworth, was jailed for 14 weeks. He admitted Benzoylecgonine drugdriving in Highland Road, Emsworth, on January 25.

He was banned from driving for 20 months and 49 days.

Siddle also admitted not doing unpaid work on a previous suspended sentence for fraud – and magistrates implemented the 14-week jail term.

He also admitted drugdriving on March 6 this year in Victoria Road North, Southsea.

Piotr Sadura, 36, of Kensington Road, Copnor, admitted assault by beating on October 14 last year in Portsmouth.

Magistrates imposed a two-year community order with 25 days’ rehabilitation activities and 280 hours’ unpaid work.

He must pay a £95 surcharge and £300 costs. A restraining order bans him from contacting the victim, a woman, for two years.

Richard Foy, 46, of Wymering Road, North End, admitted two charges of drug-driving – Benzoylecgonine and cannabis.

He was caught on October 27 last year on the A27 at Portsmouth

in a white Ford Transit van.

Magistrates fined him£135witha£35 surcharge and £85 costs.

He was banned from driving for 18 months.

William Castle, 37, of The Circle, Wickham, was found guilty of assault by beating in Gosport on October 26 last year.

Magistrates imposed a two-year conditional discharge with a £22 surcharge and £300 costs.

Philip Robertson, 35, of Herbert Road, Southsea, admitted damaging a Renault Megane on June 5 last year in Southsea.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge with £300 compensation.