Preston Magistrates Court listings for Tuesday, October 20

A total of 45 cases are listed before Preston Magistrates today (Tuesday, October 20), including hate crimes, stalking, beating of emergency workers, and knife, drugs and driving offences...

Charlie Worthington — Sentence

Offence: Stalking without fear, alarm or distress.

Atiq Gheewala — Plea

Offence: Driver of a vehicle failing to stop after a road accident.

Byron Rimmer — Sentence

Offence: Driving whilst disqualified.

William Murphy — Mention and fix

Offences

Driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit; speeding by exceeding the 70mph motorway limit, detected by manned equipment.

Paul Lewis — Sentence

Offence: 2 x racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress through words or writing.

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Paul Lewis — Sentence

Offence: Racially or religiously aggravated intentional harassment, alarm or distress through words or writing.

Liam Halliday — Sentence

Offences: Failing to surrender to police or court bail at the appointed time; two counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker.

Peter Thompson — Mention, defendant to attend

Offences: Criminal damage to property valued under £5,000; racially or religiously aggravated common assault or beating; assault by beating; three counts of assault by beating of an emergency worker.

Richard Wills — Mention

Offence: Drunk and disorderly in a public place.

Paul Lewis — Sentence

Offences: Drunk and disorderly in a public place; vehicle interference involving a motor vehicle; theft from a shop.

Matthew Langstreth — First hearing

Offences: Two counts of driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit; failing to stop a vehicle when directed by a police constable, traffic warden, traffic officer or community support officer engaged in traffic regulation; speeding by exceeding the 30mph limit on a restricted road, detected by manned equipment.

Corey Burgess — First hearing

Offence: Possession of a Class B controlled drug, cannabis or cannabis resin.

Finlay Cross-Adair — First hearing

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

Reece Murphy Maynard — First hearing

Offence: Travelling on a railway without paying the fare.

Reece Shelley — First hearing

Offences: Travelling on a railway without paying the fare; possession of a Class B controlled drug, cannabis or cannabis resin.

Lydia Hodgson — First hearing

Offence: Driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the legal limit.

Behzadian Adib — First hearing. Offences: Driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the legal limit; driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.

Neil Mullen — First hearing

Offences: Four counts of theft from a shop; one count of attempted theft from a shop.

Neil Mullen — First hearing

Offences: Assault by beating of an emergency worker; assaulting a constable in the execution of their duty.

Mark Stephenson — First hearing

Offence: Possession of a Class A controlled drug, cocaine.

Jonathan Slater — First hearing. Offence: Possession of a Class B controlled drug, cannabis, with intent to supply.

Michael Houghton — First hearing. Offence: Driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the legal limit.

Paul Healy — First hearing

Offences: Driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol level above the legal limit; driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence.

Lee Hardie — First hearing

Offences: Theft from a motor vehicle; fraud by false representation under the Fraud Act 2006.

Razvan Galateanu — First hearing

Offence: Theft from a shop.

Jane Buchanan — First hearing

Offence: Drunk and disorderly in a public place.

Jessica Worswick — First hearing

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

Sharna Goodwin — First hearing

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

Nicholas Buckley — First hearing

Offences: Possession of a knife blade or sharp-pointed article in a public place; possession of a Class A controlled drug, cocaine; two counts of driving with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit.

Zachary Lowe — First hearing

Offence: Theft from a shop.

Jayne Almond — First hearing

Offences: Two counts of theft from a shop.

Shaun Pickup — First hearing

Offences: Conducting, causing or knowingly permitting activity in contravention of an environmental permit; treating controlled waste in a manner likely to cause pollution or harm to human health.

Cases subject to reporting restrictions

There are also 14 cases listed with reporting restriction, where the defendants' identities are withheld under the Children and Young Persons Act 1933.

In two cases, complainant anonymity is also protected under the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992.

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