BEFORE THE BENCH

THE following people have appeared before Stockport magistrates: ●●JOSEPH WILLIAM EDWARDS, 23, Woodlands Park Drive, Offerton, admitted driving while disqualified, drink-driving and driving without insurance. Four months’ jail suspended for 18 months, 120 hours’ unpaid work, 40-month driving ban, fined £250, £85 costs. ●●JASON ATWELL, 25, of Oldham Drive, Woodley, pleaded guilty to disqualified driving and driving without insurance. Community punishment order with 100 hours’ unpaid work, six-month driving ban, fined £50, £170 costs. ●●NEVILLE WHITTLE, 64, of Oxford Drive, Woodley, admitted using a television without a licence. Fined £40, £60 costs. ●●DAVID POTTER, 37, of Moseley Street, Edgeley, pleaded guilty to breach of the peace. Bound over to the sum of £50 for six months. ●●PIETRO ANTONIO POLLASTRETTI, 57, of Bridge Street, Bramhall, was found guilty of two counts of driving under the influence of drugs and admitted cocaine possession. Fined £1,250, 12-month driving ban, £775 costs. ●●MARK ROBERT ADES, 36, of Fistral Avenue, Heald Green, pleaded guilty to drink-driving. Fined £162, banned from driving for one year, £250 costs. ●●THOMAS IAN CURRIE, 20, of Dorset Avenue, Cheadle Hulme, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour. Conditionally discharged for 12 months, restraining order, £200 costs. ●●LEE JAMES BRADBURY, 31, of Gorton Road, Reddish, admitted the use of threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour and criminal damage. Community punishment order with 60 hours’ unpaid work, restraining order, £200 compensation, £85 costs. ●●LEE ELLIS JONES, 41, of Waterside, Marple, pleaded guilty to entering as a trespasser to steal. Thirty-eight weeks’ jail, £85 costs.