IN THE COURTS

A ROUND-UP of recent cases at Portmouth Magistrates’ Court:

■ Jackson Holt, 26, of Arnaud Close, Buckland, admitted failing to comply with supervision on July 10. He was jailed for 14 days.

■ Gary Byrne, 43, of St George’s Square, Portsea, admitted two charges of using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress on February 29. Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 150 hours’ unpaid work. He must pay a £90 victim surcharge and £50 costs.

■ Joseph Ambrose, 22, of Laburnum Road, Fareham, admitted possession of cannabis, a class B drug, on December 27 last year. He admitted drug-driving with a cocaine byproduct in his blood on the same day.

Ambrose admitted driving a Ford Transit without insurance or a licence. He was fined £60 with a 12-month ban.

Ambrose must pay a £32 victim surcharge.

■ Steven Carslake, 49, of Granary Lane, Selsey, admitted two charges of drug-driving with cocaine and a byproduct in his blood on January 10.

He was fined £240 with a three-year ban.

He must pay a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

■ Jamie Davis, 49, of Padnell Place, Cowplain, admitted cannabis drug-driving in a BMW 320d in Civic Centre Road, Havant, on December 29 last year.

He was fined £40 with a £32 victim surcharge and £40 costs.

Magistrates banned him from driving for a year.

■ Callum Deacon, 19, of the Ibis Hotel in Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, admitted damaging a motorbike on November 15.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge with £100 compensation and £32 victim surcharge to pay.

■ Adam Jurd, 41, of St Vincent Road, Gosport, admitted jointly stealing £95 worth of alcohol from Morrisons in Gosport on March 6.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge.

■ Debbie O’Hagan, 53, of St Vincent Road, Gosport, admitted jointly stealing £95 worth of alcohol from Morrisons in Gosport on March 6. She admitted failing to comply with a community order. Magistrates fined her £20 with a 12-month conditional discharge.

■ Tyreece Shephard, 19, of Bayley Road, Tangmere, admitted cannabis drugdriving on December 23. He was fined £40 with a £32 victim surcharge and £40 costs, with a 12-month ban.