A round-up of some of the recent cases at Hereford Magistrates Court:
Gareth Stephen Robins, 40, of Wall House Road, Ross-on-Wye, admitted stealing groceries worth £400 to £500 from Morrisons supermarket on November 11. He also admitted stealing fragrances from Boots on the same day.
He was handed a 21-day and a seven-day jail sentence, to run consecutively, for the two thefts, and must pay a £122 victim surcharge.
Sarah King, 28, of Lacey Way, Newton Farm, was fined a total of £880 and handed six penalty points for driving without insurance or licence on Callow Road on July 26. King must also pay costs of £85 and a £66 victim surcharge.
Paul Anthony Pickering, 49, of Cheshire Close, Rugby, was caught driving without insurance on Orchard Lane in Ledbury on July 11. He was fined £660 and must pay costs of £85 and a £66 victim surcharge.
John Rowberry, 40, from Kidderminster, was sentenced for stealing hundreds of pounds worth of fragrances from a Hereford store. He admitted stealing fragrances worth £100 from Debenhams in Hereford on December 4.
He also admitted returning to the same store on December 6, where he stole a further £392.70 worth of perfumes.
Rowberry was handed a four-week sentence, suspended for nine months, and must pay compensation of £100.
Aiden George James Gummer, 20, of Skenfrith Walk, Hereford, admitted driving his Renault Clio without a licence or insurance on April 18. He was fined £300, disqualified from driving for six months, and must pay £85 in costs and a £30 victim surcharge.
Nicolas Luke Sheffield, 23, of Hollylea Close, Bartestree, admitted possessing cannabis on September 14.
Sheffield was fined £175 and ordered to pay a £32 victim surcharge.
Johnathon James Latham, 39, of St Georges, Telford, pleaded guilty to driving while disqualified in Hereford.
The court heard Latham was caught behind the wheel of a Nissan Almera on Belmont Road on November 22.
He also admitted using a mobile phone while driving, and driving without insurance when he appeared before magistrates on January 13.
Latham was disqualified from driving for 14 months and fined a total of £280. He must also pay costs of £135 and a £32 victim surcharge.
Donatas Zemaitis, 31, of Muir Close, Hereford, was banned from the roads after he was caught drink-driving in Hereford.
The court heard Zemaitis, who entered a not guilty plea, had been caught behind the wheel of his Toyota CRH on Canonmoor Street in Hereford on November 11. A breath test revealed he had 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.
Zemaitis was fined £346 and disqualified from driving for 22 months. He must also pay costs of £775 and a £34 victim surcharge.
Daniel James McCluskey, 27, of Fownhope, Herefordshire, admitted breaching the requirements of a community order after failing to attend a required session on November 3.
McCluskey also pleaded guilty to using violence to gain entry to a house in Hereford and to damaging a Vauxhall Astra belonging to the resident on January 1.
McCluskey was handed a two-year community order, a two-year restraining order, and a £200 fine. He must also pay compensation of £100, costs of £135, and a £90 victim surcharge.
Asa Mitch Frayling, 36, of St Peter’s Gardens, Bromyard, admitted possessing cannabis and causing £500 of damage to a Mercedes belonging to another person on October 11.
Frayling was handed an 18 month conditional discharge. He was ordered to pay compensation of £600, costs of 135, and a £21 victim surcharge.
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