Portsmouth Magistrates' Court - latest update

Magistrates fined her £67 with a £32 surcharge and six points on her licence.

Billy-Joe Thorn, 35, of Sackville Street, admitted stealing £58.50 worth of chicken from Co-op on June 21 in Portsmouth.

He was fined £54 with a £34 victim surcharge and £40 prosecution costs.

Michael Dearlin, 31, of HMP Winchester, admitted stealing speakers worth £30 from Tesco on May 27.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge with £22 surcharge.

Samantha Vermeire, 22, of East Street, Fareham, admitted cannabis drug-driving in Langbrook Close, Langstone, on January 24.

Magistrates fined her £236 with a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

She was banned from driving for 12 months.

Danny Mitchell, 24, of Crockford Drive, Petersfield, admitted amphetamine drug-driving a the BP petrol station in Winchester Road, Petersfield, on January 8.

He admitted having cocaine, a class A drug, and driving without insurance.

Magistrates banned him for a year with a £120 fine. He must pay £85 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.

Ammar Nasir, 20, of Greetham Street, Southsea, admitted driving while banned and without insurance in Purbrook Way, Leigh Park, on June 12.

He admitted obstructing a police officer.

He was fined £120, had six points on his licence and must pay a £34 surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.

Lucia Steel, 48, of Kite Close, Wecock Farm, admitted drink-driving in Hambledon Road on June 23.

A test revealed she had 53 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.

The legal limit is 35.

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She was fined £80 with a £34 victim surcharge and £85 costs to pay.

Steel was banned for a year.

Casey Hunt, 28, of Northampton Road, Market Harborough, admitted joint assault by beating and trying to steal £52.99 worth of alcohol from Co-op in Portsmouth on December 26, 2018.

He must pay £300 compensation.

Mark Walkley, 40, of Bramdean Drive, Leigh Park, admitted harassment between July 3 and 6. He was fined £50 with a 12-month restraining order.

Walkley admitted theft of £87.21 worth of goods from Lidl on August 26 and assault by beating.

Magistrates imposed a 14-day term suspended for a year. He must pay £100 compensation.

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