XL Bully owner and woman beater among crims sentenced by Cornwall magistrates

It's the weekend and therefore time for a look at the cases that have recently come before Cornwall's magistrates. Everyone who has been charged with an offence, from the least to the most serious, appears initially before the magistrates. The most serious cases are then sent to the .

If a defendant pleads guilty, they could be sentenced straight away or have the matter put back for a pre-sentence report. If they deny the allegations against them, the case will be adjourned for a trial. The are open to anyone and our reporters attend just like any other member of the public.



As most people have jobs and cannot spend their time in court, the media has always acted as the eyes and ears of the public to ensure that justice is seen to be done. Age: 41 Montgomery Road, Penwithick On April 28, at assaulted a woman thereby occasioning her, actual bodily harm. Suspended sentence: 26 weeks suspended for 24 months.

Mental health treatment: 12 days. Rehabilitation activity: 10 days. Compensation: £500.

Restraining order not to contact your victim or go to an address. Age: 47 Jamaica Terrace, Heamoor, Allow a fighting dog to be in a public place without a muzzle or lead. On April 1 at Penzance, being the owner of a dog to which section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applied, namely an XL Bully, allowed it to be in a public place, namely Jack Stephens Estate, Penzance, without being muzzled and kept on a lead.

Remand on unconditional bail until November 12. Age: 46 Foundry Cottages, Marhamchurch, Drive motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, Contrary to section 5A(1)(a) and (2) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988. On January 14, 2024, at Bude in the County of Cornwall, drove a motor vehicle, namely a silver AUDI A3 registration number WF55 WLV, on a road, namely Hele Road, Bude, when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in his blood, namely not less than 3.

9 micrograms per litre of blood, exceeded the specified limit Disqualification period: 12 months. Fine: £120. Age: 39 Grenville Court, Westhill, St Austell On February 14 at St Austell, you had with you, without good reason or lawful authority, in a public place, namely Priory Road Car Park, an article which had a blade or was sharply pointed, namely a kitchen knife.

Community order. Mental health treatment non-residential patient: 12 days. Rehabilitation activity: 25 days.

Forfeiture and destruction - Property to be forfeited and destroyed: Fine: £120. Age: 27 Blakes Close, Delabole On February 24 at St Mawgan intentionally and without lawful authority or reasonable cause, interfered with a motor vehicle, namely a Vauxhall Corsa in such circumstances that it would have been obvious to a reasonable person that to do so would be dangerous. Also on the same date and in the same place, assaulted a woman thereby occasioning her, actual bodily harm.

Suspended sentence: 36 weeks suspended for 24 months. Alcohol treatment non-residential: 12 months. Mental health treatment: 30 days.

Rehabilitation activity: 10 days. Restraining order not to contact your victim. Age: 58 Bullers Terrace, On June 9 at used a motor vehicle on the A3075 without any insurance in place and whilst disqualified.

Community order. Unpaid work: 200 hours. Penalty points for this offence: 6.

Age: 31 Meadowbank Road, On February 18, 2023 at Police Station, assaulted an emergency worker, namely a police constable, acting in the exercise of her functions as such a worker, by beating her. Conditional discharge for two years. Amount of compensation: £300.

Age: 34 Pensilva Road, On March 6 at used a motor vehicle on Commercial Road, without insurance and whilst disqualified. Adjourned until November 4. Age: 36 Old Hill Crescent, Falmouth On six occasions between November 1, 2020, and January 10, 2021, between June 30, 2020, and March 30, 2021, between August 1, 2020, and November 30, 2020, and also between March 1, 2021, and April 28, 2021, and between November 30, 2020, and January 1, 2021, and finally between January 1, 2021, and January 18, 2021, in Falmouth, for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, intentionally attempted to communicate with six different girls under 16 who you did not reasonably believe to be 16 or over, the communication being sexual, namely content through online applications which are sexual in nature.

Suspended sentence: eight months suspended for 24 months. Court order programme: 23 days. Rehabilitation activity: 30 days.

Sexual harm prevention order: 15 years, Prohibitions: Having any contact or communication of any kind with any person under the age of 16 other than such as is inadvertent and not reasonably avoidable in the course of lawful daily life; or with the consent of the child’s parent or guardian (who has full knowledge of his previous convictions) and with the prior written permission from his police offender manager. Banned from residing or sleeping in the same household as any person under the age of 16 other than with the prior written permission from his police offender manager and with the consent of the child’s parent or guardian (who has full knowledge of his previous convictions). Age: 49 Tudor Park, Truthwall, Crowlas On June 22 at the Salt N Vinegar Takeaway, Camborne, assaulted a man by beating him.

On the same day and in the same place, also assaulted a woman by beating her. And without lawful excuse, damaged to the value of £20 namely pepper and vinegar jars intending to destroy or damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be destroyed or damaged. Remand unconditional bail until October 17.

Age: 44 NFA Harassment - breach of a restraining order on conviction, Contrary to section 5(5) and (6) of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. On September 16 without reasonable excuse, you were in the company of a woman which he were prohibited from doing by a restraining order imposed by Lancashire Magistrates Court on September 11. Custodial sentence: 10 weeks.

Restraining order not to contact your victim and to reside at a certain address. Age: 31 Penarwyn Woods, Par Exceed a 20 mph speed limit in contravention of a Local Traffic Order. On January 22, at Plymouth drove a motor vehicle on the B3214 Old Laira Road subject of a local traffic order, namely THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH (TRAFFIC MOVEMENT AND SPEED LIMIT REGULATIONS) (CONSOLIDATION) ORDER 2022, at a speed exceeding 20 miles per hour.

The same offence happened on the same road on January 24 and again on February 2. Disqualification period: 6 months, Notional penalty points: 3. Fine: £72.

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