Portsmouth man who stole £28,500 car is spared prison

Richard Ware, 59, of Falmouth Road, Paulsgrove, admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm on January 28 in Portsmouth.

Magistrates imposed a two-year community order with 100 hours' unpaid work.

He must pay £750 compensation and a £90 victim surcharge, with £85 costs.

Jonathan McGinley, 39, of Humber Close, Fareham, admitted speeding on April 9 and was fined £400.

He must pay a £44 surcharge an £105 costs, with six points imposed on his licence.

Lacey Rimmer, 32, of no fixed address, admitted failing to comply with a community order and was fined £25 with £25 costs.

Billy Cooper, 25, of Ferrol Road, Gosport, admitted failing to comply with a suspended sentence and was fined £75 with £25 costs.

Adam Young, 31, of South Street, Gosport, admitted failing to comply with a community order.

He was fined £333 with £60 costs.

Jordan Kelly, 26, of Portsmouth Road, Cosham, admitted drink-driving in London Road, Waterlooville, on March 13.

He also admitted two charges of assaulting an emergency worker, and assaulting another officer on May 7.

Magistrates jailed Kelly for six weeks and imposed 10 points on his driving licence.

He must pay £270 compensation to the police officers, and £500 prosecution costs.

Scott McClure, 37, of Guildford Road, Fratton, admitted two charges of theft on June 4 and 27.

He stole alcohol and goods worth more than £373.

Magistrates fined him £240 with a £34 surcharge.

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Lee Benneyworth, 37, of Leominster Road, Paulsgrove, admitted stealing a handbag in Lymington on December 14, 2019, and burgling the Marriott hotel in Portsmouth on February 4 last year for a key fob.

He admitted burgling Hendy Ford in Cosham on November 5, 2019, and stealing a car worth £28,500.

Magistrates imposed a 26-week jail term suspended for a year.

He must pay £210 compensation.

Joanne Allinson, 36, of Rectory Road, Havant, admitted drug-driving with a cocaine byproduct in her blood in Woodbury Avenue, Havant, on April 11 last year.

Magistrates fined her £120 with a £32 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.

Allinson was banned from driving for 23 months.

Riccardo Hanson, 27, of no fixed address, admitted cannabis drug-driving in London Road, Portsmouth, on April 11.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge with £21 surcharge and three-year ban.

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