GARETH ROGERS, 52, of Nettlebed Mead, Oxford, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen of blood at Abingdon police station in July. He had been arrested on suspicion of having committed a road traffic offence. He was fined £135, banned from driving for three years and was ordered to pay £139 in costs and surcharge.
KARL FELLOWS, 46, of Moore Drive, Tiverton, Devon, pleaded guilty to drink driving a silver Nissan Nivaro on Evans Lane, Kidlington. He was stopped on August 13, when tests showed he was more than twice the legal limit, blowing 82mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. He was fined £500, disqualified from driving for 18 months and ordered to pay £285 in costs and surcharge.
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PHOEBE HALE, 33, of no fixed address, received a nine month conditional discharge for stealing alcohol from Tesco and using disorderly behaviour in the same St Aldates branch. She was ordered to pay £5.70 in compensation for the filched booze.
BERNARD BANFIELD, 50, of St Catherines Road, Littlehampton, was found guilty of assaulting a woman in Wantage on November 17 last year. The district judge imposed a community order with 60 hours of unpaid work and up to 20 rehabilitation requirement days. He must pay £200 in costs and a £128 victim surcharge.
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SEAN DENTON, 43, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to five counts of stealing bicycles from streets and colleges around Oxford, including an electric bike worth £4,500. He was given six months’ imprisonment suspended for two years. A five year criminal behaviour order imposed during the sentencing hearing prevents him from going into any Oxford University bike shed, any ‘property, buildings or grounds designed for the storage of bicycles’ or ‘entering any bike rack’ unless to lock up or unlock his own push bike. Any bicycle he acquires must be registered with Thames Valley Police. He is also banned from going to an area of Oxford defined on a map, although not set out in court records sent to the press.
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JAYESON BESSASA-GRANT, 32, of Chillingworth Crescent, Oxford, pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman by beating her in Wantage on February 4. He received a community order with a six month mental health treatment requirement, he must do 60 hours of unpaid work and the building better relationships course. A restraining order limits his contact with the victim and lasts until August 2025. The defendant was ordered to pay £85 in costs.
TIMOTHY WALL, 40, of Main Road, Long Hanborough, admitted stealing 15 cushion covers from One Village store in Woodstock on August 3. The soft furnishings were worth £525. He received a total sentence of 25 weeks’ imprisonment, as it was committed while he was subject to existing suspended prison sentences. He was ordered to pay £50 in compensation to the shop.
DOMINGOS DOS SANTOS, 33, of Dene Road, Oxford, was found guilty of sexual assault by touching a woman in Oxford on March 31 last year without her consent. He accepted failing to surrender to court on an earlier occasion. The magistrates imposed a community order with 100 hours of unpaid work and up to 35 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He will remain on the sex offender register for five years. Dos Santos must pay £295 in costs and surcharge.
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