Overview

• At Southampton Magistrates’ Court, Jordan Murphy admitted two counts of drug driving in Bursledon and received two eight‑week prison terms suspended for 12 months, plus £85 in costs.
• Oxford magistrates jailed Jamie Woodley for six months for nine shop thefts, with additional convictions for taking a vehicle without consent and riding an e‑scooter without a licence or insurance, and ordered £200 compensation and six penalty points.
• Recent drink‑ and drug‑driving cases brought lengthy disqualifications, including 34 months for Jonathan Harefield in Hampshire, 24 months for Sergejevs Pjotrs in Banbury reducible by course, two years for Linda Brennan in Oxford, three years six months for Adam O’Neil in Christchurch, and two years one month for Peter Ndungu in Bournemouth.
• Swindon magistrates sentenced Hyusein Hyuseinov for driving at nearly five times the legal alcohol limit, imposing a five‑year ban and an 18‑week term suspended for 12 months with treatment, rehabilitation days and 200 hours of unpaid work.
• Other outcomes included fines and points for uninsured and unlicensed driving such as Charles Wheatley on the M40, a weapons possession fine for Victor Ramirez in Bournemouth, and varied community orders, compensation and conditional discharges for theft and public‑order offences.