HERE are some of the latest Magistrates Court results from the last couple of weeks.

Benjamin Jackson, aged 29, of Archery Road, Cirencester was found guilty of three driving offences when he appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates Court on August 28.

He was caught driving on Horsefair Road, Cheltenham on March 29 this year without a driving licence and insurance.

Jackson was also caught not wearing a seatbelt.

He was handed six penalty points on his licence and ordered to pay costs of £1,251.

Kelly Bye, 38, of Elizabeth Way, Siddington, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court to driving while disqualified and without insurance.

She was stopped and arrested by police on May 20 in Siddington just half a mile from her house trying to buy nappies for her baby.

District Judge Joti Bopa-Rai added an extra three months to her driving ban, fined her a total of £200 and ordered her to pay £85 prosecution costs.

Jamie Goddard, aged 23, of The Quarry, Fairford pleaded guilty to drink driving at Cheltenham Magistrates Court on August 28.

He was stopped in his car on Quenington Road, Lechlade on August 10 this year.

The court heard how Goddard was found to have 62 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 35 micrograms.

Goddard was banned from driving for 17 months and ordered to pay costs of £367.

Niall Ford-Allen, 30, of Ben Grazebrooks Well, Stroud, pleaded guilty to two charges of driving with a proportion of a specified drug above the limit in his body, when he appeared before Cheltenham Magistrates Court on September 4.

Ford-Allen was stopped in Wallbridge Road, Stroud at 1.20am on March 30.

He had 52 micrograms of cocaine and 297 micrograms of benzoylecgonine - a cocaine metabolyte - per litre of blood.

Magistrates banned him from driving for 12 months, fined him £300 and ordered him to pay £85 prosecution costs.

William Davies, 51, of Bath Road, Stroud, was found guilty of assaulting a man in Stroud on March 30.

During the unprovoked attack he dealt blows to the victim while he was on the ground, and used the victim's trainer to inflict pain.

Davies pleaded not guilty on May 23 but was found guilty in his absence on August 14.

He was given a 12-week prison sentence suspended for 14 months at Cheltenham Magistrates' Court on August 16.

Davies also had to pay compensation of £200, a surcharge to fund victim services of £115 and costs of £200 to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Rhys Oliver, 19, of Bridge Mead, Ebley, Stroud, pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol at Cheltenham Magistrates Court on August 28.

The court heard how he swerved onto the wrong side of the A46 at Painswick on August 11 and narrowly missed a head-on collision with an ambulance racing to attend an emergency.

He had 61 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit being 35 micrograms

District Judge Joti Bopa-Rai banned Oliver from driving for 17 months, fined him £250 and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £85.

Asa Mandens, 42, and his father George, 62, both of The Orchard, Bristol Road, Cromhall, pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates court on September 4 to theft from Halfords on Eastern Avenue, Gloucester on September 9 last year.

The magistrates heard that the pair committed the offence while subject to a suspended prison sentence order imposed by Bristol magistrates on April 18 this year for stealing £671 worth of goods from an Aldi store.

Magistrates jailed Asa Mandens for a total of 18 weeks and his father for a total of 14 weeks.

Both were also ordered to pay prosecution costs of £85 each.

Andrew Grubb, 42, of Kemperleye Way, pleaded guilty to guilty to stealing three bottles of champagne and two bottles of spirit, to the value of £134.00 from Morrisons in Yate on April 20.

He was ordered to pay compensation of £564 and £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service.

Kane Loveridge, 23, of Rangers Avenue, Dursley pleaded guilty at Cheltenham Magistrates Court on August 30 to possessing Class A drugs and to driving without a valid licence and without insurance.

Police stopped Loveridge on March 23 on Castle Street and found £200 worth of cocaine in his possession.

Magistrates fined him a total of £240, endorsed his licence with eight penalty points and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £85.

Michelle Criddle, 32, of New Cheltenham Road in Kingswood, indicated a guilty plea for theft at Bristol Magistrates' Court on August 29.

She was given a six week prison sentence suspended for nine months after

The court heard how she stole 24 Maybelline Lip-glosses from Superdrug in Yate to the value of £253.75 on April 13 this year.

She was given a six week prison sentence suspended for nine months and ordered to pay £100 compensation.