From the courts
A COMMUNITY order has been made to a Finchampstead driver who who caught over the drink drive limit.
Martyn David Head of Arnett Avenue was stopped by police on January 16 in Wildridings Road, Bracknell.
The 31-year-old was found to have 116 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
Head pleaded guilty and ordered to take part in 120 hours of community service over the next 12 months, pay costs of £85 and £85 to Victim Services.
A MAN from Arborfield has been given an 12-week suspended sentence for entering a branch of fast-food chain KFC.
Adam Ian Burgess, 21, from Howell Close, was found guilty of stealing keys from the Reading Gate branch of the restaurant on November 8 last year.
At the hearing, at Reading Magistrates Court on February 5, Burgess was given the 12-week sentence which is suspended for 18 months, ordered to pay £650 costs and £115 Victim Services charge.
At another hearing on the same day, Burgess was found guilty of stealing two bottles of perfume worth £172 from Boots in Reading, for which he was given a two-week suspended sentence.
A 35-year-old woman from Henleyon-Thames has been given a 24-month conditional discharge after being found guilty of a string of thefts.
On April 24 last year, Becky Street from Noble Road, drove off without paying for petrol worth £27.14 from a garage in Woodley.
On April 10, she stole £283 of alcohol from a branch of Sainsbury’s in Maidenhead, on April 21, she stole a three-pack of curtains worth between £300 and £500 from Next in Maidenhead.
And on May 5, she stole £25.01 of petrol from a garage in Woodely.
In addition to the discharge, Slough Magistrates Court, at her hearing on February 5, ordered to pay compensation for the value of the goods taken.
A LITTLEWICK GREEN man denies being the owner of a dangerous dog.
Jack Gates from Bottle
Lane appeared before Slough Magistrates Court on February 5, accused of owning a border collie called Herne who is thought to be dangerous and not kept under proper control.
Gates has been ordered to appear at Reading Magistrates Court for a hearing before a district judge.
This will take place on April 3. A MAN from Earley was found guilty of driving a car without due care and attention.
Two charges were dismissed against at a hearing at Reading Magistrates Court on February 7. The first was being the driver of a car that failed to stop in an accident, the second was failing to give name and address to the other driver involved in the incident which took place in Whiteknights Road, Reading on October 11 last year.
Scott Andrew Johns, 22, of Hutton Close, was found guilty of driving a car without due care and attention.
He was given three points on his licence and fined £120.
He also had to pay £30 to Victim Services.
A MAN from Bracknell has been remanded on bail after pleading not guilty to failing to stop in a Wokingham road.
Jordan Alex James Rolfe, 22, from Bull Lane in Bracknell, denies dangerous driving in Easthampstead Road, driving while disqualified and failing to stop when directed by police.
The incidents took place on January 3 this year.
At a hearing held at Reading Magistrates Court on February 7, Rolfe – also known as Jordan James – was given unconditional bail until a hearing which will be held on April 19.
DRIVING while under the influence of alcohol has seen a Cockpole Green man banned from getting behind the wheel for 18 months.
Alexander Collis, 21, from Hatchgate Farm, was found guilty at a hearing on February 8 at Reading Magistrates Court.
On January 20, Collis was stopped by police in Wargrave Road, Twyford. A breath test revealed he has 70 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
In addition to the ban, he was fined £380, ordered to pay costs of £85 and £38 to Victim Services. He should also undertake a safe driving course, which will reduce his ban by 18 weeks.
A READING woman has been found guilty of racially abusing another woman.
Rebecca Leighton, 38, of Belford Court in Reading has been ordered to pay costs of £155 and £30 to Victim Services as a result of the incident, which took place in Broad Street, Wokingham on May 25 last year.
She was accused of harassing the woman by using threatening, abusing and insulting words.
Leighton had previously pleaded not guilty at a hearing held on January 26, but changed her plea to guilty on February 9.
She was also fined £25 for failing to appear before the court on February 2 and a further £80 for committing an offence while under a conditional discharge order which was given to her on November 1 last year, after being found guilty of assaulting a police officer.