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    Man on the Green wrote:
    snert wrote:
    So Matthew Morris was ordered to pay £234.53 compensation to the Kennington Co-op for stealing meat? Sure it isn't compensation, more like he was ordered to pay the store back the value of the food. How has the store been compensated other than to have the value stolen paid back? Hardly compensation is it? He should have been ordered to pay the amount back plus the sam again as compensation.
    Courts can only order compensation up to the amount of the actual loss suffered by the store in such cases. Anything above that would be a fine. And any fine attracts a mandatory £15 victim surcharge, which is paid into a central fund to support victim and witness support services. By only ordering compensation, they probably wanted to ensure that priority in payment went to ensuring that the Co-op got its money back, even if it is at a small amount each week, because compensation has to be paid before fines.
    Then it wouldn't matter what the fine was, you contradict yourself in your final paragraph."
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SCALES OF JUSTICE: Some of the recent cases at Oxford Magistrates' Court

12:00pm Monday 7th May 2012 in News

Stacey Daniels, 30, of Trent Road, Didcot, admitted stealing meat worth £91.48 from Waitrose on March 1, stealing meat and fish worth £250 from Milton Heights Service Station on March 8, stealing meat and fish worth £26.75 from Milton Heights Service Station on March 16, and stealing 12 bottles of port, numerous Salad Bowl meals and four bottles of Lenor worth £198.86 from a shop in Benson.

Suspended jail sentence for eight weeks and given 12 months supervision, plus treatment for drug dependency.

Kimberly Jones, 27, of Wynbush Road, Oxford, admitted stealing a 19in TV and DVDs worth £135 from Asda in Cowley on January 27, various DVDs and CDs from Asda in Cowley on February 3 and DVDs and CDs from Asda in Cowley on February 6. Given a conditional discharge for 18 months.

Marita Greaves, 34, of Cunningham Close, Daventry, admitted not telling Cherwell District Council she had moved to Daventry, knowing it would affect her benefit between September 13, 2010 and December 5, 2010. Fined £110, and told to pay £15 victims’ surcharge and £25 costs to the council.

Carmen Hutchinson, 32, of Fettiplace Road, Headington, admitted failed to surrender to Oxford Magistrates’ Court on December 16. Fined £45 and £15 victims’ surcharge.

Naveed Iqbal, 25, of Shelburne Road, High Wycombe, convicted of careless driving in Kingston Hill, Kingston Blount, on March 29, 2011. Fined £185, plus £15 victims’ surcharge and £200 costs.

Joshua Bedford, 23, of Milton Road, Sutton Courtenay, admitted causing criminal damage worth £1,300.69 to the body panels of a Ford Fiesta in Abingdon on January 8. Placed on a curfew for three months from March 30 between 7pm and 7am and told to pay £1,000 compensation and £85 costs.

Matthew Morris, 34, of Nowell Road, Oxford, admitted stealing meat worth £60 from the Co-op in Kennington on February 22, meat worth £80 from the Co-op in Kennington on February 27 and meat worth £94.53, again from the Co-op in Kennington on March 3. Sentenced to drug rehabilitation for six months, banned from going into the Co-op in Kennington and ordered to pay £234.53 compensation to the store.

Luciano Pereira, 40, of Merewood Avenue, Headington, Oxford, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance on February 21 in Littleworth Road, Wheatley. Sentenced to 200 hours unpaid work, disqualified from driving for 12 months and must pay £85 costs.

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