JAMES SANDERS, 31, of Cheneys Piece, Benson, admitted driving a Skoda Fabia on the A4074 in Benson on January 11 while over the drink drive limit. Tests showed he had 56mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. He was fined £500, banned from driving for 14 months and must pay £285 in costs and surcharge.
BILLY BISTON, 28, of Dobbins Close, Kings Sutton, admitted shoplifting two bottles of Disaronno from Sainsbury’s in Kidlington. The alcohol was worth £37. He was fined £200 and ordered to pay £160 in costs and surcharge.
ALEXANDER CLARKE, 35, of Evans Way, Chipping Norton, pleaded guilty to drug driving. Tests showed that he was over the limit for benzoylecgonine and cocaine after he was stopped behind the wheel of a Ford Transit in Eynsham Road, Oxford, last August. The magistrates fined him £120, banned him from the roads for 30 months and ordered he pay £133 in costs and surcharge.
CRAIG LEDBURY, 42, of Penny Farthing Row, Westbury, admitted driving a VW Golf in Drayton Road, Abingdon, while two times the legal drink-driving limit, banned from driving and uninsured. He was sentenced to 14 weeks’ imprisonment suspended for two years and banned from the roads for five years. He must pay £199 in costs and surcharge.
ETHAN HARPER, 21, of Watlington Road, Benson, pleaded guilty to driving a Vauxhall Corsa while over the legal limit for cannabis. He was caught on Oxford Road, Bicester, last August. The bench fined Harper £500, banned him from driving for a year and ordered he pay £285 in costs and surcharge.
WESLEY FISHER, 41, of Russ Avenue, Faringdon, pleaded guilty to drink driving a Ford Focus on Milton Hill, Abingdon, and driving it without insurance. Tests showed that after he was stopped behind the wheel of the Focus last November he had 46mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. He was fined £320, banned from driving for 40 months and must pay £85 in costs.
STEVEN MCDONAGH, 36, of Oaksview Park, Murcott, admitted stealing bottles of alcohol – including champagne – from Tesco in Cowley. He received a six month conditional discharge, was ordered to pay £100 compensation to the supermarket chain and must pay the £45 prosecution costs.
MICHAEL HARRISON, 27, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to criminal damage of a door last December. He received a 12 month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £66 in costs and surcharge, although the sum was deemed paid by the 30 hours he had served in police and court cells following his arrest.
ALISON MORGAN, 56, of Molyneux Drive, Bodicote, admitted drink driving a Hyundai Getz on Church Street, Bodicote, in January. Tests showed she was more than three times the drink drive limit, blowing 127mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. She was given a community order with 200 hours of unpaid work, banned from driving for two-and-a-half years and must pay £199 in costs and surcharge.
NICHOLAS HORTON, 57, of St Mary’s, Wantage, admitted breaching a restraining order by contacting a woman in February. He was sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment, with the court record noting he ‘keeps repeatedly breaching this restraining order’. Horton had failed to respond to either custodial or non-custodial sentences. The magistrates ordered he pay £85 in costs.
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