RECENT cases dealt with by Taunton Magistrates' Courts include.

Christopher James Cornish, 26, of Hornbeam Close, Taunton, theft, £5 compensation. (G).

Benjamin Edward Jay, 23, of Belvedere Road, Taunton, drink driving, £370 fine, £37 victim surcharge, £85 costs, 18 months driving ban. (G).

Lloyd Stephen Shirley, 28, of Churchill Way, Taunton, used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, community order, 60 hours unpaid work, £85 victim surcharge, £85 costs. (G).

James Edward Thomas Whittaker, 19, of John Grinter Way, Wellington, drink driving, £130 fine, £30 victim surcharge, £85 costs, 18 months driving ban. (G).

Anthony Mark Carp, 53, of Darwin Close, Taunton, drink driving, £130 fine, £30 victim surcharge, £85 costs, 18 months driving ban. (G).

Christopher Goodland, 50, of Six Acres Close, Taunton, possession in public of a kitchen knife, community order; assault by beating, community order, £200 compensation, £85 victim surcharge. (G).

James Ashleigh Doherty, 20, of Langford Court, East Reach, Taunton, drink without correct licence, £50 fine; driving without insurance, £200 fine, six months driving ban; forged a registration mark with a false number plate on a car, £200 fine, £30 victim surcharge, £85 costs. (G).

James Charles Goodman, 22, of Capes Barton, Combe Florey, drunk and disorderly in the Perkin Warbeck pub, Taunton, £150 fine, £30 victim surcharge, £85 costs. (G).

Talia Dawn Marie Forward, 29, of Hilly Park, Norton Fitzwarren, used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, four weeks prison suspended for 12 months, £100 compensation; used racially aggravated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, eight weeks prison (concurrent) suspended for 12 months, £100 compensation, £115 victim surcharge. (G).

George Ian Whyte, 44, c/o Mount Street, Taunton, drunk and disorderly, £40 fine, £30 victim surcharge. (G).

Graham Hetherington, 22, of Hawthorn Road, Minehead, damaged a pane of glass, six months conditional discharge, £113 compensation, £20 victim surcharge, £150 costs.

(G) denotes guilty plea or admits offence. Details supplied by the courts.