OUR regular round-up of people who have appeared in Blackburn and Burnley courts.

 

Assault case

CHRISTINE Farmer, 39, of Burnley Road, Bacup, was given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for two years after admitting to two assaults. Farmer was given a 12-week curfew, fined £100 compensation and £85 in costs.

 

Guilty plea

DAVID Simon Whitehead, 48, of Parliament Street, Burnley, has been given a six-month community order, with drugs rehabilitation requirement, and £160 court bill, by town magistrates, for stealing a charity box on September 21.

 

Woman fails to appear

A WARRANT was issued for the arrest of Ellis McCarthy, of Fishmoor Drive, Blackburn, when she failed to appear before the town’s magistrates.
The 19-year-old was due to face the bench to answer a charge of being drunk and disorderly in Johnston Street in the town.

 

Car thief jailed and disqualified

A CAR thief who stole a Land Rover in East Lancashire using a set of master keys has been jailed for 10 months.

Police pulled over a Land Rover in Rishton as it matched the description of a vehicle taken outside a home in Burnley. Alan Beck, 20, a disqualified driver, swapped places with passenger Lewis Creighton after parking up, Burnley Crown Court heard.

But police spotted the switch and Beck, of The Stables, Aspull Common, Leigh, later admitted motor vehicle theft, going equipped for theft and driving while disqualified.

He was also banned from driving for 12 months when he was jailed by Recorder Harry Narayan.

Creighton, 21, of Sandy Lane, Lowton, near Leigh, admitted handling stolen goods and going equipped. He was given a six-month suspended prison sentence.

 

Man on £37k theft charge

A 39-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before Blackburn magistrates charged with stealing jewellery worth £37,000 from his estranged wife.

Gurpreet Singh Saini, of Hanover Square, Mayfair, London, the comercial director of an intellectual property firm, is accused of stealing the jewellery belonging to Parmjit Sain at Longridge between June 2013 and August 2014. He will stand trial at Preston Crown Court on December 21.