IN THE COURTS

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

Robert Cooper, 39, of Military Road, Hilsea, admitted failing to comply with a community order in May last year. He must pay £60 costs. He was re-sentenced for a theft and handed a 12-month community order with 120 hours' unpaid work.

Sean Hawkins, 30, of Solebay Way, Gosport, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on November 27 last year.

Magistrates imposed a 12-week jail term suspended for a year. He must complete 35 days’ rehabilitation activities. A restraining order bans him from contacting the victim for three years. He admitted assault by beating involving the same victim on December 26 last year.

He must pay a £122 victim surcharge.

Christopher Boyd, 31, of Fawcett Road, Southsea, admitted having an offensive weapon, a bat, on March 30 in Saltash, Cornwall. Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 15 days’ rehabilitation activities. He must complete 60 hours' unpaid work.

He must pay a £90 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

An order was made to destroy the wooden baseball bat.

Aaron Diamond, 32, care of Anson Drive, Southampton, admitted having amphetamine, a class B drug in Gosport on May 22. He was fined £40 with a £34 surcharge. An order was made to destroy the drug.

Perry Harris, 32, of Gunwharf Quays, admitted flouting a non-molestation order on September 18.

He admitted having a sock containing golf balls, an offensive weapon, in Portsmouth the next day.

Magistrates imposed a 21-week sentence suspended for a year. He must complete 32 days'’rehabilitation activities. Harris must pay a £128 surcharge and £85 costs.

The weapon must be destroyed.

Mark Robins, 41, of Hollam Road, Milton, admitted drink-driving in Crofton Road on July 26. A test revealed he had 146 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

The limit is 35. He was banned for 36 months.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 14 days’ rehabilitation activities. He must complete 50 hours' unpaid work, and pay a £95 surcharge and £85 costs.

■ David Knipe, 41, of Princes Street, Portsmouth, admitted assault by beating on September 8 and stealing £340 worth of goods from Ann Summers in Commercial Road.

He was jailed for 14 weeks.