CIARAN COTTINGTON, 24, of Paradise Road, Aylesbury, pleaded guilty to driving a VW Golf on Bicester Road, Middleton Stoney, while over the drug-driving limit for cannabis. He was fined £120, banned from driving for 18 months and must pay £80 in costs and surcharge.

JORDAN GILL, 25, of Reedmace Road, Bicester, pleaded guilty to driving a VW Golf in Vendee Drive, Bicester, while over the limit for cannabis. Gill was fined £618, banned from driving for a year and must pay £85 in costs and a £248 victim surcharge.

FRANK SHEPHERD, 42, of Old London Road, Chipping Norton, admitted using threatening words or behaviour and assaulting a man by beating him at the Fox Hotel in Chipping Norton. He received 10 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for a year and must wear an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag for 90 days. He must pay £285 in compensation.

JOSHUA WALKER, 22, of Hengrove Close, Oxford, admitted drink driving a black Yamaha motorcycle in Kenilworth Avenue last November. He was around twice the drink-drive limit, blowing 76mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath – the legal limit being 35mcgs. He was fined £120, banned from driving for 20 months and ordered to pay £133 in costs and surcharge.

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KARL GOODENOUGH, 39, of Blay Close, Oxford, pleaded guilty to drink driving. He was caught behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Insignia on Watlington Road, Oxford, last December. Tests showed he had 85mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. He was fined £576, banned from driving for 18 months and must pay £315 in costs and surcharge.

CRISTIAN PATRASCU, 28, of Broad Oak, Oxford, admitted drink driving a Mercedes E220 in Thames Street and driving it without a valid licence. Tests showed Patrascu had 53mcgs of alcohol in 100ml breath. He was fined £461, banned from driving for a year and must pay a £185 victim surcharge and £85 in costs.

CRAIG MCLAUGHLAN, 34, of Bartholomew Tipping Way, Stokenchurch, was found guilty of damaging a Ford Focus worth £3,423 last January. He received an alcohol treatment requirement, eight week curfew, two year restraining order and must pay almost £300 in compensation. He was ordered to pay £300 in costs.

JAYSON BUTLER, 22, of Littlemore Hospital, admitted assaulting three mental health workers last January. The district judge imposed £225 in compensation.

STEVEN PHINN, 50, of Luther Street, Oxford, admitted racially-aggravated common assault, and damaging a chess set and phone last April. Phinn received a 12 month conditional discharge for the assault and must pay £57.99 in compensation for the damaged phone.

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KYLE MOUNTFORD, 24, of Desdemona Way, Brackley, was found guilty of possession of a knife in Marlborough Road, Banbury, last May without reasonable excuse. He must complete 100 hours of unpaid work. The knife was forfeit and he was ordered to pay £295 in costs and surcharge.

MELANIE MANTEL, 63, of Grazeley Green, Reading, admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis at Abingdon police station. She was fined £519, disqualified from driving for 18 months and must pay £85 in costs.

NYAH-KANE TERRY, 28, of Elton Close, Leamington Spa, admitted two counts of assaulting a woman by beating her in Bodicote. The district judge imposed a community order with up to 10 rehabilitation activity requirement days. Terry must pay £314 in costs and surcharge.