Weekly round-up of hearings at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court:

October 10

Tarran Lee, 34, of Sandycroft Road, Amersham. Driving over the drink-drive limit. Fined £500. Costs £135. Disqualified from driving for 17 months. Failure without reasonable cause to surrender to custody at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. Fined £150.

October 14

Aboamir Abdullah, 30, of Highfield Road, Chesham. Possession of a controlled drug of class B (cannabis). Fined £100. Costs £117. Cannabis resin forfeited and destroyed.

Michael Dally, 25, of Wendover Street, High Wycombe. Assault by beating. Fined £41. Costs £117.

Mudassar Hussain, 35, of Abbey Barn Road, High Wycombe. Using a motor vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance. Fined £180. Costs £340. Driving record endorsed with six points.

Edward Taylor-Green, 21, of Hatters Lane, High Wycombe. Driving over the drink-drive limit. Fined £300. Disqualified from driving for 18 months. Possession of a knife blade/sharp pointed article in a public place. Community order made. Costs £165.

October 15

Linda Richards, 76, of Coulson Way, Burnham. Speeding over the 30mph speed limit. Fined £131. Costs £115. Driving record endorsed with three points.

Stephen Burrows, 62, of Trewarden Avenue, Iver Heath. Speeding over the 30mph limit. Fined £129. Costs £115. Disqualified from driving for 56 days.

October 16

Marcin Nogala, 34, of Cumbrian Way, High Wycombe. Using a motor vehicle on a road/in a public place without third party insurance. Fined £380. Costs £123. Keeping a vehicle when registration mark fails to conform with regulations. Fined £380.

Danny Whitaker, 30, of Station Close, High Wycombe. Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a community order made by Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. Order to continue. Fined £40. Costs £60.

Vasile Lupu, 44, of Chairborough Road, High Wycombe. Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a suspended sentence order made by Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. Fined £53. Costs £60.

October 17

Clinton Chaplin, 38, of White Lion Road, Amersham. Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with a community requirement of a suspended sentence order made by Uxbridge Magistrates’ Court. Fined £233. Costs £60.

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