Man who assaulted police officers among cases heard by magistrates
DOZENS of criminals are dealt with by magistrates at Kirklees every day.
Magistrates have the powers to jail defendants for up to six months for one offence or 12 months in total for a number of offences.
They can also hand down fines of up to £5,000.
All magistrates are unpaid volunteers and they only receive expenses for the work they do.
With more serious offences they will send a defendant to crown court for sentencing.
Here are the latest cases from the courts. by failing to attend induction appointment on November
12, 2019. Ordered to pay £50 costs.
■■Quasim Ali, 35, Pately Crescent, Fartown. Misusing a disabled parking badge on Albion Street on May 17, 2019. Fined £93, £30 surcharge, £250 costs.
■■John Gregory Cropper, 62, Midgley Farm, Wickens Lane, Holfirth. Extended and made alterations to a listed building between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008 and demolished a listed building without planning permission between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2018. Fined £1,500, £150 surcharge and £1,448.33 costs.
■■Lee Astin, 40, Winton Street, Lockwood. Handling of stolen goods, namely a bank card, and fraudulently used someone’s bank card to try and buy tobacco and a drink on Upper Clough Road on November 27, 2019 and stole hair clippers, cigarettes and glasses worth an unknown value and interfered with a vehicle intending to steal property and stole a bank card in Holmfirth on December 25, 2019. Jailed for 30 weeks concurrent and ordered to pay a £149 surcharge.
■■Paul Darren Flynn, 33, Maple Avenue, Golcar. Damaged a window to the value of £200 and assaulted two police officers, damaged glasses worth £100 on Lockwood Road, Lockwood and assaulted two people in the Yorkshire Victoria Pub, Lockwood Road, Lockwood on December 24, 2019.
■■Luke Steven Greenwood,
27, No fixed address. Used threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour and the offence was racially aggravated in Huddersfield on May 10, 2019. Fined £12 and a £30.03 surcharge.
■■Lewis Carlton Shaw, 26, Whitehall Road. Made indecent images of a child namely, four category B and eight category C in Huddersfield on August 15, 2018. Community order made for programme requirement for 27 days, rehabilitation activity requirement for 30 days, £85 surcharge, £85 costs, sexual offences prevention order made and ordered to sign the sex offenders register for five years.
■■Daljit Singh, 26, Foxcroft Drive, Brighouse. Failed to give information relating to the identification of a driver suspected of committing an offence in Bradford on July 23, 2018. Fined £300, £30 surcharge, £620 costs and
■■Mark Edward McSherry, 27, Cross Lane, Primrose Hill, Huddersfield. Used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in Huddersfield on November 24. £230 fine, £32 surcharge and £28 costs.
■■Joseph Shiel, 35, New Road, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield. Drunk and disorderly in a public place and assaulting a police officer in Huddersfield on November 23. £150 fine, £50 compensation and £85 costs. ■■Benjamin Paul Sykes, 27, Moorside Road, Kirkheaton, Huddersfield. Used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in Huddersfield on November 24. £347 fine, £34 surcharge and £28 costs.