Portsmouth Magistrates' Court - latest update on cases

DEFENDANTS at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court have been sentenced for their crimes.

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Thomas Eames, 27, of St Jacques Way, Denmead, admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath in Portsmouth on March 14.

Eames was fined £500 with a £50 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

He was banned from driving for 12 months.

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Frankie Owens, 46, of Northwood Lane, Hayling Island, admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath in Portsmouth on March 16.

He was fined £288 with a £32 surcharge and £85 costs, with a three-year ban.

Ali Al-Hafidh, 43, of Cottage Grove, Southsea, admitted drug-driving on November 19 last year in Clarence Parade Southsea.

He had a cocaine breakdown product in his blood.

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He was fined £120 with a £32 surcharge and £85 costs.

Magistrates banned him from driving for a year.

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Jane Willis, 55, of Ernest Road, Buckland, admitted assault and drink-driving on January 18.

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A test revealed she had 235 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 15 days' rehabilitation activities.

Magistrates fined her £250 with £100 compensation to pay to the assault victim.

She was banned from driving for two years.

Dean Keenan, 35, of Monkwood Close, Leigh Park, admitted drug-driving with a cocaine breakdown product in his blood on December 4 in Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth.

A test should he had 105 in blood.

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Magistrates fined him £180 with a £32 surcharge and £85 costs.

He was banned from driving for three years.

Kurtis Lee, 34, of Sycamore Close, Gosport, admitted cocaine breakdown drug-driving in South Street, Gosport, on January 31.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 20 days' rehabilitation activities.

He was fined £200 with a £90 surcharge and £85 costs.

Magistrates banned him for 12 months.

Shawn Muradzi, 19, of Steerforth Close, Buckland, admitted having two class B drugs - ketamine and cannabis - in Portsmouth on October 6 in 2018. He also admitted having cocaine, a class A drug.

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He also admitted having ketamine in Petersfield on August 12 last year.

Magistrates fined him £120 with a £30 surcharge and £85 costs for the class A, with no separate penalty for the others.

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