Preston Magistrates Court listings for Friday, October 23

A total of 35 cases are listed before Preston Magistrates today (Friday, October 23), including racial hate crimes, assault, strangulation, and drugs, sex and driving offences...

Mitiku Turnbull — Sentence

Offences: Harassment without violence; arrest by a constable for breaking or likely to break bail conditions, with a duty to surrender into the custody of a court.

Robert Wharton — Further case management

Offences: Intentional strangulation; assault by beating.

Defendant (anonymity protected) — Sentence

(Note: Reporting restrictions under Section 1 of the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992)

Cally McDermott — Sentence

Offence: Assault by beating.

Damon O'Connor — Sentence

Offence: Affray.

Nadnapit Pho-Loy — Plea

Offences: Driving a motor vehicle when the alcohol level is above the limit; using a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place without third-party insurance.

Rizwan Umerji — Plea

Offences: Racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress through words or writing; racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating; assault by beating; threats to kill; possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

Jake Kerrigan — Deferred sentence. Offences: Five counts of theft from a shop.

Jake Kerrigan-Beattie — Deferred sentence. Offences: Failing to surrender to police or court bail at the appointed time; multiple counts of theft from a shop.

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Dilraj Singh — First appearance

Offence: Possessing a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis or cannabis resin.

Philip McKean — First appearance

Offence: Driving whilst disqualified.

Nicholas Saunt — First appearance

Offence: Threat to damage or destroy property.

Marquise Martins — First appearance

Offence: Possessing a controlled drug of Class A – cocaine, with intent to supply.

Akib Makkan — First appearance

Offence: Possessing nitrous oxide for wrongful inhalation, a Class C drug.

Mark Bamber — First appearance

Offences: Possessing a knife blade or sharp-pointed article in a public place; failing to provide a specimen for analysis as a vehicle driver.

Jack McHale — First appearance

Offences: Two counts of possessing a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis – with intent to supply; three counts of acquiring, using or possessing criminal property.

William Prior — First appearance

Offences: Assaulting a constable in the execution of their duty; driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit; driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence; using a motor vehicle on a road or in a public place without third-party insurance; using a handheld mobile phone or device while driving; possessing a controlled drug of Class A – cocaine; possessing a controlled drug of Class B – ketamine; further counts of driving with a specified controlled drug above the limit; obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of their duty.

Steven Dell — First appearance

Offences: Two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Connor Ryding — First appearance

Offence: Driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Ryan McNeill — First appearance

Offences: Two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Natasha Cocker — First appearance

Offence: Theft from a shop.

Christopher Gardner — First appearance

Offences: Two counts of theft from a shop.

Jonathan Cooke — First appearance

Offence: Theft from a shop.

Carl Lewis — First appearance

Offence: Failing to provide a specimen for analysis as a vehicle driver.

Connor Heyes — First appearance

Offences: Possessing a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis or cannabis resin; driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Ilyas Din — First appearance

Offences: Driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit; possessing a controlled drug of Class A – crack cocaine; a further count of driving with a specified controlled drug above the limit.

Thomas Moore — First appearance

Offence: Assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Robbie Moore — First appearance

Offence: Using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause fear of or provoke unlawful violence.

Ian Mee — First appearance

Offence: Theft from a shop.

Trials

Michael Halford — Trial. Offences: Two counts of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Kenneth Threlfall — Trial

Offences: Possessing a controlled drug of Class B – cannabis or cannabis resin; two counts of possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.

Hanif Saleh — Trial

Offence: Driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or in a public place without due care and attention.

John Gavin — Trial

Offence: Using a handheld mobile phone or device while driving a motor vehicle on a road.

Simon Mount — Trial

Offence: Failing to provide information relating to the identification of the driver or rider of a vehicle when required.

Daniel Sumner — Trial

Offence: Driving a mechanically propelled vehicle on a road or in a public place without due care and attention.

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