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

January 20

  • Charlotte Stephenson, 26, of Micklefield Road, High Wycombe. Using a motor vehicle on Kingshill Road, High Wycombe, without third party insurance on March 16, 2020. Fined £50. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Kingshill Road, High Wycombe, on March 16, 2020. Fined £120. Costs £117. Disqualified from driving for 20 months.

January 21

  • Sithembiso Dlamini, 40, of Buckingham Road, Aylesbury. Assault by beating in Aylesbury on January 4, 2020. Discharged conditionally for 12 months. Compensation £25. Costs £775.
  • Keegan Casey, 28, of Ford’s Croft, Thame. Assault by beating in High Wycombe on October 27, 2019. Discharged conditionally for nine months. Compensation £75.
  • Thomas Mawhood, 21, of New Road, Stokenchurch. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Oakley Road, Chinnor, on December 4, 2020. Fined £461. Costs £131. Disqualified from driving for 17 months.
  • Anastasia Lovelock, 18, of Dutton Way, Iver. Racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress in Iver on January 19. Community order made. Curfew for three months with electronic monitoring between 6am and 6pm. Costs £180. Using threatening/abusive/insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress to a police officer in Iver on January 20. Community order made. Threat to damage or destroy property. On January 20, threatened an officer that a police vehicle would be damaged. Community order made. Obstructing/resisting a constable in the execution of their duty on January 20 in Iver. Community order made.

January 22

  • Ephraim Allen, 28, of Booker Place, High Wycombe. Failure to provide a specimen for analysis when suspected of having driven a vehicle on June 8, 2020, in Maidenhead. Community order made. Must carry out 80 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months. Costs £180. Failure to surrender to custody at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court on August 27, 2020. Fined £180. Failure to surrender to custody at High Wycombe Magistrates Court on January 7. Fined £180.
  • Kahn Osborne, 19, of Mill End Road, High Wycombe. Racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress of a police officer in High Wycombe on August 28, 2020. Fined £620. Costs £147.
  • Charlie Banton, 25, of Great Western Street, Aylesbury. Assault by beating of a police officer in Aylesbury on March 15, 2020. Committed to prison for eight weeks. Compensation £150. Assault by beating of a police officer in Aylesbury on March 15, 2020. Committed to prison for four weeks consecutive to offence number one. Compensation £100.
  • Ivana Hladna, 44, of West Street, Aylesbury. Criminal damage to property valued under £5,000. In Aylesbury on September 2, 2020, damaged a marked police van to the value of £158.13 belonging to Thames Valley Police. Compensation £158.13. Assault by beating of a police officer in Aylesbury on September 2, 2020. Fined £153. Racially/religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress in Aylesbury on September 2, 2020. Fined £153. Costs £119.
  • Jason Jones, 48, of The Orchard, Halton. Common assault in Aylesbury on May 25, 2020. Discharged conditionally for 12 months. Compensation £50. Costs £107. Assault by beating in Aylesbury on May 25, 2020. Discharged conditionally for 12 months. Compensation £75. Criminal damage to property valued under £5,000. Damaged an iPhone 7 valued at £10 in Aylesbury on May 25, 2020. Discharged conditionally for 12 months. Compensation £10.
  • John Cronin, 38, of Victoria Street, High Wycombe. Criminal damage to property valued under £5,000. In Denham on February 8, 2020, damaged a Ford Fiesta belonging to someone else. Restraining order made. Fined £120. Compensation £60. Costs £532.
  • Shoaib Hanif, 21, of Upper Green Street, High Wycombe. Driving a vehicle without third party insurance on London Road, High Wycombe, on March 29, 2018. Fined £660. Costs £841. Driving record endorsed with six points.

January 25

  • Martyn Hills, 34, of Lambourne Avenue, Aylesbury. Driving over the drug-drive limit in Aston Clinton. On July 24, 2020, on Aylesbury Road, had a proportion of benzoylecgonine in their blood. Fined £90. Costs £119. Disqualified from driving for 12 months.
  • Emily Williams, 19, of Studridge Lane, Speen. Driving over the drink-drive limit on the M40 in Beaconsfield on December 25, 2020. Fined £90. Costs £119. Disqualified from driving for 18 months.

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