In the Dock - Eight recent cases heard by magistrates

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The following cases were heard by magistrates on Thursday, September 3.

Chiburuoma Chiazorye Okwu, 33, of Higher Perry Street, Darwen, was given six penalty points on their licence for being a learner driver while driving on a motorway, driving without a licence, and driving without insurance.

Okwu drove on the M6 north between J13 and J14 in Staffordshire and was sentenced at Cannock Magistrates' Court.

Harry Wilson, 21, of Grassington Drive, Burnley, was sentenced to 26 weeks in prison suspended for 18 months for dangerous driving, driving whilst disqualified, and driving without insurance.

Wilson drove dangerously on Burnley Road, Accrington, on June 11.

He was also ordered to complete 20 rehabilitation days and 200 hours of unpaid work, and was disqualified from driving for two years at Blackburn Magistrates' Court.

Catherine Curbishley, 32, of Gloucester Road, Blackburn, was given a six-month conditional discharge after pleading guilty to being drunk and disorderly.

Curbishley was also ordered by Blackburn Magistrates' Court to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £26.

James Bell, 37, of Pilgrim Street, Nelson, was fined £120 at Blackburn Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty to using threatening/abusive words/behaviour to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.

Bell must also pay costs of £85.

Dawn Christie, 59, of Brownhill Avenue, Burnley, was given a community order until January of next year for stealing a £35 pair of trainers from Next in Burnley.

She was also given a drug rehabilitation order and was ordered to pay £35 compensation by Blackburn Magistrates' Court after pleading guilty.

James Doherty, 65, of Nelson Street, Accrington, was ordered to pay £50 in compensation after stealing the same value of cheese from Farmfoods in Accrington.

No order for costs was made by Blackburn Magistrates' Court.

Waqas Sardar, 50, of Brunswick Street, Nelson, was given a nine-month conditional discharge for an offence of racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress - words/writing.

Sardar was also ordered to pay £100 in compensation by Blackburn Magistrates' Court.

Luke Heaton, 34, of Brandy House Brow, Blackburn, was given a 12-month conditional discharge for possessing cocaine.

A forfeiture and destruction order for the drugs was also made by Blackburn Magistrates' Court, and Heaton was ordered to pay £85 in costs after pleading guilty.

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