Weekly round-up of hearings at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court:

January 24

Ernest Mujakachi, 22, of Carrington Road, High Wycombe. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Victoria Street, High Wycombe. Fined £200. Costs £117. Disqualified from driving for 14 months.

January 27

Ailsa Cole, 51, of Nags Head Lane, Great Missenden. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Nags Head Lane, Great Missenden. Fined £807. Costs £165. Disqualified from driving for 18 months.

Lisa Macardle, 34, of Wrethorn Furlong, Haddenham. Theft from a shop – stole two bottles of perfume and a men’s cap valued at £191 from John Lewis in High Wycombe. Fined £80. Compensation £191. Costs £117.

Derek Wyatt, 46, of Langtons Meadow, Farnham Common. Theft from a shop – stole various items to the value of £205.75 from Sainsbury’s. Community order made. Costs £175.

Thomas Dawson, 27, of Totteridge Road, High Wycombe. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Totteridge Avenue. Fined £691. Costs £154. Disqualified from driving for 24 months.

January 29

Simon Batting, 42, of St George’s Close, High Wycombe. Making off without paying for diesel in High Wycombe. Compensation £30. Possession of a knife place in a public place – St George’s Close, High Wycombe. Fined £200. Costs £117. Knife forfeited and destroyed.

Peter Howes, 51, of Mendip Way, High Wycombe. Assault by beating of an emergency worker – beating a police officer at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Committed to prison for four weeks. Compensation £100.

Daniel Wickes, 53, of Tilling Crescent, High Wycombe. Assault by beating. Community order made. Criminal behaviour order made for six years. Compensation £50. Assault by beating. Community order made. Compensation £50. Assault by beating. Community order made. Compensation £50.

January 30

Macauley Walsh, 21, of Hill Close, Wooburn Green. Assaulting a person in High Wycombe and causing them actual bodily harm. Community order made – 50 hours of unpaid work. Compensation £200.

January 31

Ruksar Ahmed, 49, of Cedar Avenue, Hazlemere. Controlling or managing a house in multiple occupation (HMO) at Sabina Close, High Wycombe, which was not licensed. Fined £3,000. Costs £2,304. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £1,200. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £1,800. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £600. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £1,800. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £600. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £3,000. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £1,200. Failure to comply with health and safety regulations. Fined £1,800.

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