Overview

• Southampton magistrates on September 17 issued multiple drink‑driving penalties, including a 24‑month ban and £850 fine for Daniel Pothecary after a reading more than three times the limit, with other offenders receiving bans of up to 36 months.
• Regional driving cases continued in Suffolk, where Joshua Hulse received a two‑year disqualification and fines after a roadside reading more than double the limit, and in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire where courts recorded further drug‑ and drink‑driving bans and fines.
• Dorset magistrates on September 16 jailed repeat shoplifter Timothy Tinton for three months for thefts and breaching a criminal behaviour order, and jailed Aaron Worrall for five months for a series of shop thefts.
• An earlier Southampton list recorded a 32‑week sentence for Arron Gray over multiple shop thefts, with magistrates citing a “flagrant disregard for court orders” in imposing immediate custody.
• Abigail Hoare admitted stealing £10,400 of model train sets from AC Models in Eastleigh, receiving a 12‑month community order with alcohol abstinence, an exclusion from the store, mental‑health treatment and £240 compensation.