NICKESH JADAV, 30, of Venners Water, Didcot, pleaded guilty to assault by beating and using threatening behaviour in Didcot last May. He received an 18 month conditional discharge and must pay £107 in costs and surcharge.

GAVIN WILKES, 39, of Pound Piece, Ashbury, admitted driving a Mitsubishi L200 4x4 on Marcham Road, Abingdon, last August while disqualified from the roads and uninsured. He also pleaded guilty to obstructing a police constable. He was ordered to do 150 hours of unpaid work, fined £300 and banned from driving for a further year. He must pay £95 in costs.

LIAM WALLER, 35, of Roe Road, Northampton, pleaded guilty to driving a Ford Transit on the A34 at Wendlebury last June while over the limit for drug benzoylecgonine, a metabolite of cocaine. A front tyre on his van was bald. He was fined £300, banned from driving for a year and must pay £119 in costs and surcharge.

JOHN WILMOT, 40, of Vicarage Road, Winslow, admitted attempted sexual communication with a ‘child’ online between June 7 and June 13, 2020. He was given a community order with a five year sexual harm prevention order. He must pay £180 in costs and surcharge, and will be on the sex offender register for five years.

RORY MCFARLANE, 28, of Marsh Road, Ambrosden, pleaded guilty to racially-aggravated harassment of a police officer, trespassing on the railway lines in Bicester and damaging a bottle of screenwash belonging to a Shell petrol station in Bicester. He was ordered to do 180 hours of unpaid work, pay £150 in compensation to the officer and £6.15 to Shell, and pay the court £180 in costs and surcharge. McFarlane also admitted using threatening behaviour towards a man on a different date in Manor Farm Close, Bicester, last May, for which he was ordered to pay £100 in compensation.

EMMA QUARTERMAIN, 45, of Rymers Lane, Oxford, pleaded guilty to remaining in a property in East Avenue, Oxford, in breach of a closure order. She received a six month conditional discharge.

SARAH MOONEY, 34, of East Street, Fritwell, pleaded guilty to three counts of possession of class A drugs – heroin and crack cocaine – on two dates in Banbury. She was fined £75.

DEREK HIMPSON, 39, of Luther Street, Oxford, admitted stealing a crate of beer from the Tesco in St Aldates last October. He was ordered to pay £30 in compensation and banned from the supermarket until March 19.

MALCOLM PLAISTED, 35, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to stealing meat from Sainsbury’s in Cowley Road last November. He was fined £50 and ordered to pay £105 in costs and surcharge.

JAMEL HAQ, 31, of no fixed address, admitted stealing leather shoes from Loake and a jumper from John Lewis, both in the Westgate Centre. He was jailed for a week.

RHYS PALMER, 21, of Carter Close, Headington, pleaded guilty to drink driving a motorcycle on Field Street, Bicester. Tests showed he had 68mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35. The bench fined him £400, disqualified him from driving for a year-and-a-half and ordered he pay £245 in costs and surcharge.

MARTIN WARD, 19, of Agnells Lane, Hemel Hempstead, admitted stealing bedding worth £2,458 from Dunelm in Banbury last October. He received a community order with up to 40 rehabilitation activity requirement days and must pay £199 in costs and surcharge.

ALINNE CARDOSE GUIMARES, 36, of Whitelands Way, Bicester, pleaded guilty to driving a Mini Cooper on Whitelands Way while over the drink driving limit. Tests showed the driver had 56mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath, around one-and-a-half times the legal limit. Guimares was fined £507 and banned from driving for 15 months. The magistrates ordered £288 be paid in costs and surcharge.