LISA DOWNES, 24, of Church Street, Didcot, admitted harassment and sending threatening messages. She was sentenced to 16 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for a year, with 28 rehabilitation activity requirement days. She must pay £213 in costs and surcharge.

LEWIS AYRE, 23, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to supply crack cocaine and heroin at a petrol station in Cherwell Street, Banbury, on October 26. He was remanded in custody to appear before Oxford Crown Court on November 9 for sentence.

WAYNE CHEDSEY, 41, of Camp Road, Upper Heyford, admitted assaulting a woman and damaging a plant pot and letterbox. He was given a two-year community order, with 10 rehabilitation activity requirement days, and must not contact his victim as part of a two-year restraining order. He must pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

JAMIE CHIVERS, 37, of Ticknell Piece Road, Charlbury, admitted stealing tobacco, house keys, £30 cash and a bank card, assaulting a woman by beating her and damaging her rucksack. He was fined £120, must pay £50 compensation and was ordered to pay £109 in costs and surcharge.

JULIAN BECKSEY, 27, of Botley Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to using threatening behaviour with intent to cause a man harassment, alarm or distress on June 3. He was fined £120 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

DAPHNE GASANA, 37, of Hubble Close, Oxford, admitted being more than three times the drink-driving limit. She was caught behind the wheel of a Skoda Kodiaq on the Eastern Bypass on September 16 when tests showed she had 115mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. She must carry out 80 hours of unpaid work, pay £180 in costs and surcharge and was banned from driving for 26 months.

OLUWATOBI SHOMADE, 29, of Swanley, Kent, pleaded guilty to driving an Audi A6 on Osney Lane while over the drug-driving limit for cannabis. He also admitted possession of cannabis and cocaine. He was fined £300, disqualified from driving for 18 months and ordered to pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

ANDREW ACHILLEOS, 50, of Butterwyke Place, Oxford, pleaded guilty to a spree of offences including 15 counts of shoplifting or attempted theft, a charge of attempted criminal damage and one count of common assault. He stole hundreds of pounds-worth of alcohol from Kidlington Sainsbury’s and targeted John Lewis for high value jeans and perfume. He was jailed for 30 weeks and ordered to pay £100 compensation to the victim of the assault.

SAMUEL FORSTER, 22, of Northampton Road, Weston-on-the-Green, admitted driving a Ford Transit while over the drug-driving limit for cannabis. He also admitted possession of the class B drug. The magistrates fined him £300 ordered he pay £119 in costs and surcharge. He was banned from driving for a year.

SAM MUTLOW, 22, of Vyners Close, Cirencester, pleaded guilty to drug-driving. He was caught driving a VW Golf on the A40 near Witney while over the limit for cocaine derivative benzoylecgonine. The magistrates banned him from driving for a year-and-a-half, ordered he do 80 hours of unpaid work and pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

PAUL ROBERTS, 31, of Cromwell Road, Banbury, admitted possession of a weapon – an extendable baton – in a private place and using threatening behaviour. He was fined £200 and ordered to pay £119 in costs and surcharge. The baton was forfeit.

DAVID MAYHEW, 73, of The Willows, Grove, was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman by touching her in Stanford in the Vale last October. He was fined £574 and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £450 costs.

LORD MEILACK, 58, of Crowborough, East Sussex, was fined £50 for speeding on the A41 at Bicester. He had denied the offence but later pleaded guilty. The magistrates imposed three penalty licence points and ordered he pay £50 in costs and surcharge.

MOUSSA ADOUM, 37, of James Street, Oxford, admitted possession of cocaine, using threatening behaviour, stealing wine and bananas from Sainsbury’s and damaging a door frame at the supermarket. He also admitted breaching an earlier community order imposed for shoplifting by committing further offences. The bench gave him a 12- month community order with an alcohol treatment requirement and ordered he pay £7 in compensation for the stolen wine. He must pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

ALAN MOYLAN, 38, of Willow Walk, Wantage, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with the requirements of a suspended sentence by skipping appointments in August. He was fined £80 and ordered to pay £80 in costs to the probation service.

GEORGE NEWMAN, 26, of John Jones Close, Abingdon, was fined £100 after he admitted breaching a community order by failing to attend unpaid work appointments. He was told to pay £60 to cover the probation service’s costs.

SEAN VENESS, 20, of Bradwell, near Burford, admitted failing to attend unpaid work sessions in September and October. He was fined £40 and ordered to pay £60 in costs.

LEE RICHARDSON, 52, of Raleigh Park Road, Oxford, admitted driving without insurance on Rowles Way, Kidlington. He was fined £300 and given six penalty points. The magistrates ordered he pay £124 in costs and surcharge.

AIDAN TIMMS, 29, of Taphouse Avenue, Witney, pleaded guilty to assaulting officers at Abingdon police station. He was fined £250, ordered to pay £200 compensation and £250 in costs.

ROBERT BURDEN, 41, of Hazel Crescent, Kidlington, admitted assaulting a man by beating and being drunk and disorderly on Cowley Road in May. He was fined £267, ordered to pay £50 compensation and given a £119 bill for costs and compensation.

ANTHONY RAWLINGS, 43, of Boreham, Essex, pleaded guilty to speeding on Headington Road, Oxford. He was clocked doing 39mph on the 30 limit road. He was fined £300 and given three points but spared an otherwise mandatory six month driving ban usually given to those who have amassed 12 penalty points after he successfully argued others would face ‘exceptional hardship’ if he were banned. He must pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

SOPHIE MCDONAGH, 24, of Lynmouth Road, Coventry, admitted driving a Renault Megane without insurance or a licence on Buckingham Road, Bicester, on February 9 and found guilty in her absence of using a false licence plate. She was fined £1,100, given six penalty points and ordered to pay £420 in costs and surcharge.

GREGORZ ROSOLOWSKI, 50, of Broughton Road, Banbury, pleaded guilty to possession of two small kitchen knives in Broughton Road on December 4 last year without reasonable excuse. He was fined £162 and ordered to pay £204 in costs and surcharge. The knives were forfeit and will be destroyed.

KYLE JONES, 21, of John Morris Road, Abingdon, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man by beating him. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £107 in costs and surcharge.

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