Clanfield driver must pay £180 after he admits being more than triple the drink-drive limit

DEFENDANTS at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court have been sentenced for their crimes.
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Matthew McGovern, 50, of Old School Drive, Hayling Island, admitted drink-driving with 117 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 milliltires of blood. The limit is 80.

Magistrates fined him £120 with a £34 surcharge and £85 costs.

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He was caught near Inhams Lane and School Lane in Denmead on September 24 last year.

Hampshire traffic police. Picture: Ian Hargreaves  (151954-20)Hampshire traffic police. Picture: Ian Hargreaves  (151954-20)
Hampshire traffic police. Picture: Ian Hargreaves (151954-20)

Shania Bishop, 21, of West Street, Havant, admitted damaging a fence belonging to Hampshire County Council on December 30, having a kitchen knife in public on the same day.

She admitted assault by beating on December 26.

Magistrates imposed a six-month conditional discharge with £22 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

Jake Lucas, 23, of Purcell Close, Stakes, Waterlooville, admitted two charges of cocaine drug-driving on July 29 last year.

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He was caught in a car park off Eagle Avenue.

Lucas was fined £240 and banned for a year.

He must pay a £34 surcharge and £85 costs.

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He also admitted having no insurance for the Peugeot 207 he was driving.

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Norman Mukasa-Mugerwa, 43, of Ellerton Way, Wrecclesham in Farnham, admitted drink-driving in Whiteland Way, Clanfield, on December 31.

He had 107 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath - more than triple the 35 limit.

Magistrates imposed a two-year ban with 12-month community order.

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He must complete 100 hours' unpaid wok, pay £95 costs and £85 surcharge.

Antony Page, 21, of Mablethorpe Road, Wymering, admitted using threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour causing harassment, alarm or distress on January 1 in Albert Road, Southsea.

Magistrates fined him £80 with a £34 surcharge and £85 costs.

Zoe Francis, 31, of Crombie Close, Cowplain, admitted driving in Portsmouth on January 3 while unfit through drink.

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She was fined £440 with a £44 surcharge and £85 costs to pay.

She was banned from driving for 16 months.

Ayman Mohamed, 24, of Chichester Road, Copnor, admitted failing to stop, and driving without a licence or insurance in Guildhall Walk and Dorothy Dymond Street on January 4.

Magistrates fined him £120 with a £34 surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.

He was banned from driving for six months.

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