RECENT cases dealt with by Taunton Magistrates’ Courts include.
Richard Barry Turner, 50, of Taunton Road, Bishops Lydeard, speeding, £1,650 fine, £120 victim surcharge, £85 costs, £150 criminal courts charge, 21 days driving ban. (G).
Shaun Michael Payne, 28, c/o East Reach, Taunton, breached an Anti Social Behaviour Order, two counts of theft, community order, £3.09 compensation, £60 victim surcharge, £150 criminal courts charge. (G).
Benjamin Paul Wall, 29, of Milton Road, Taunton, assault by beating, community order, £60 victim surcharge, £85 costs. (G).
Craig Jason Howells, 32, of Park Street, Taunton, flashing, eight weeks prison, eight weeks prison, £180 criminal courts charge, £80 victim surcharge; assaulted a police constable in the execution of his duty, four weeks prison (consecutive); damaged the interior of a police vehicle, no separate penalty; used insulting words or behaviour, eight weeks prison (concurrent); racially aggravated assault, 14 weeks prison. (G).
(G) denotes guilty plea or admits offence. Names and addresses are supplied by the courts.
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