MICHAEL ELLIOT, 52, of Wytham View, Eynsham, pleaded guilty to damaging fittings at the Queens Head pub, Eynsham, and damaging an Audi A3 last September. He was given a community order with eight probation sessions and ordered to pay more than £2,100 in compensation to his two victims. The magistrates also ordered he pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

DELROY JOHNS, 47, of St Lukes Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to stealing £270-worth of alcohol from Sainsbury’s in Kidlington on January 17. He must do 60 hours of unpaid work and pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

GREGORY WATKINS-TURLEY, 45, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to stealing two bottles of wine from the Sainsbury’s shop in St Aldates, Oxford. He received a six-month conditional discharge.

ANDRES AGARRADO-CASASOLA, 26, of Boundary Brook Road, Oxford, admitted stealing £4,867 in cash while working as a barista at the M&S store in Oxford. He must do 150 hours of unpaid work and pay the full amount back in compensation. He was also ordered to do up to 32 sessions with the probation service.

EHSAN HUSSAIN, 22, of The Fairway, Banbury, was fined £80 after he admitted possession of cannabis. He must pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

RICHARD MCGUIGAN, 32, of Cope Road, Banbury, pleaded guilty to breaching a restraining order by contacting a woman who he also admitted beating. He received 12 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for two years for what the magistrates described as an ‘unprovoked attack of a serious nature’ and his ‘flagrant disregard for people and their property’. A restraining order bans him from contacting his victim for two years. He must complete the building better relationships domestic violence programme with probation and up to 10 other probation sessions. The magistrates imposed £85 costs and ordered he pay a £128 victim surcharge.

DEVANIR PICCIN, 50, of Beauchamp Lane, Oxford, pleaded guilty to driving a black Audi in Beauchamp Road in June while banned from driving, uninsured and over the drink-drive limit. Tests showed he had 96mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. He was jailed for 10 weeks and banned for 52 months.

ANDREJ PROKES, 43, of Meon Vale, Stratford-upon-Avon, admitted being in charge of a Vauxhall Corsa in Sainsbury’s car park, Banbury, while over the cannabis drug-drive limit. He was fined £150, banned from the roads for 21 days and ordered to pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

JAMES FELL, 28, of Abbey Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to possession of a number of knuckledusters inside a private address in Stanford in the Vale, growing four cannabis plants and damaging doorframes, walls, doors and a fridge in the property. The knuckledusters included two with what the charge described as ‘a sad emoji face on side’. He was fined a total of £280, the cannabis and weapons were forfeit to the police and he was ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

AGNIESZKA BENNETT, 25, of Rotherfield Road, Cholsey, pleaded guilty to drink driving a BMW on Reading Road, Cholsey, last November. She was fined £240, banned from driving for a year and must pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

KULDEEP SINGH, 42, of Woburn Close, Banbury, was fined £100 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge after he admitted possession of cannabis.

JAMES DANE, 26, of Sherman Avenue, Walton-upon-Thames, was found guilty of having a homemade cosh, made from a lump of concrete stuffed in a sock, at HMP Bullingdon on March 17 last year. He was given 12 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for a year and ordered to pay £628 in costs and surcharge.

TODD KENT, 55, of The Lees, Faringdon, pleaded guilty to growing two cannabis plants. He was fined £200 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

TROY BOYLE, 23, of no fixed address, admitted three counts of assault by beating. He was jailed for 22 weeks and ordered to pay a total of £150 in compensation. The assaults were committed in Oxford on September 2 last year.

STUART GORDON, 49, of Castle Street, Banbury, pleaded guilty to driving an Audi A4 in West Bar Street, Banbury, while disqualified from driving and uninsured. He also admitted failing to provide a urine sample at the police station and failing to turn up to court. He was jailed for 16 weeks and banned from the roads for a year-and-a-half. He must pay a £128 victim surcharge.

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This story was written by Tom Seaward. He joined the team in 2021 as Oxfordshire's court and crime reporter.  

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