ROXANNE TOWNSEND, 31, of Sorrel Way, Carterton, admitted breaching a community order imposed in November 2020. She failed to attend probation office visits in February and March and did not comply with a planned telephone appointment on March 2. The order was allowed to continue, but the court imposed up to 19 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

SAFRAZ ALI, 45, of Kersington Crescent, Oxford, failed to attend unpaid work appointments in February. He admitted breaching his community order and was fined £50.

JAKE SMITH, 31, of Luther Street, Oxford, was given a two year community order after he was convicted of assaulting a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke, Wiltshire, on August 11, 2019. As part of the community order he must complete a drug rehabilitation requirement and was banned from the John Lewis shop in the Westgate Centre for two years. He was ordered to do the Thinking Skills programme with the probation service and participate in up to 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He must pay a £95 victim surcharge.

SOPHIE SMITH, of Rue Saint Giles, Pondi Cherry, India, was convicted in her absence of a number of offences under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1985. She failed to supply ‘summary of relevant costs’ and failed to allow the ‘right of inspection denying the tenants’ legal right to inspect the underlying records’, according to the court register. No further detail about the allegation was given. She was fined a total of £3,750 and ordered to pay a £190 victim surcharge.

ISMAIL YAHAYA, 30, of HMP Birmingham, was found guilty of assaulting a police officer and a custody worker in Abingdon on July 21, 2019. He was jailed for five weeks, with the court record noting that the magistrates’ took into account his previous record and the fact he had tried to bite at least one of the victims.

CAROLINE WALLS, 46, of Linnet Close, Oxford, was banned from every shop in the country after admitted stealing three bottles of Bacardi from the Cowley Sainsbury’s on January 15 last year and assaulting a man by beating him on the same date. She also admitted stealing £133-worth of food and alcohol from Sainsbury’s in Didcot, taking perfume from John Lewis and alcohol from a Wantage Sainsbury’s. She was given an eight week prison sentence suspended for a year, with a 12 month drug rehabilitation requirement. The conditions of her suspended sentence order prevent her from ‘entering any retail premises in the country except her local pharmacy’. She must pay £150 compensation to the shops.

MICHAEL TOOK, 53, of Long Itchington, Southam, was fined £205 after he changed his plea to a single count of speeding on the A41 from not guilty to guilty. He was driving a Land Rover with the numberplate M7OOK on the A41 near Bicester on May 30, 2021, when he was clocked at 66mph. The speed limit is 40mph. He was banned from driving for 21 days, ordered to pay £626 in costs and a £34 victim surcharge.

ANURUDHA KULATUNGE, 49, of Hendon Road, Birmingham, pleaded guilty to assaulting two police constables in Oxford on October 11 last year. He was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court on October 26 having been released on bail at Cowley Police Station on the date of the offence. He was ordered to pay £125 in compensation.

SIMON DWYER, 33, of Bere Hill, Whitchurch, was fined £93 and banned from driving for a year after he admitted driving a VW in Becket Street, Oxford, while over the limit for cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine on December 17, 2020. He must pay a £34 victim surcharge.

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