The latest cases to be heard at Harrogate Magistrates Court between September 30 and October 7
These are the latest cases to be heard at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court.
The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on October 1:
Martin Gilham, 54, of no fixed address, received a six-month conditional discharge for damaging an Audi vehicle at a property in Harrogate. The incident occurred on August 13 last year when Gilham deliberately caused £165 of damage to the Audi Q5 at an address in Back Cheltenham Mount. He was ordered to pay full compensation for the damage to the vehicle.
The following were heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on October 4:
Thomas Richardson, 25, of Longlands Lane, Whixley, was fined £60 for breaching a community order. He failed to comply with its requirements by missing two unpaid-work sessions in July and August without reasonable excuse. In addition to the fine, the court extended the community order by 12 months until January 2026 for the outstanding 201 hours’ unpaid work to be completed.
Andrew Paul McGibbon, 66, of Kings Road, Harrogate, was fined £250 for breaching a domestic-violence-protection order. He breached the 28-day order, designed to protect a named woman, by going to her address in Tockwith on September 27.
The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on October 5:
Joseph Brent, 37, of Bramham Drive, Harrogate, received a two-week jail sentence for stealing 100 football cards from a shop in Harrogate and assaulting a named woman. He stole the football cards, worth £100, from the One Stop shop on Knaresborough Road on May 17. He was ordered to pay the shop £100 compensation. The assault occurred at an address in Bewerley Road, Harrogate, on July 31. The jail sentence was imposed because Brent had a “flagrant disregard for court orders”. He was ordered to pay £310 prosecution costs.
The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on October 7:
James Ashley Gibb, 35, from Harrogate, was ordered to carry out further rehabilitation work after breaching a suspended prison sentence. He failed to comply with its requirements by missing two rehabilitation-activity appointments in August and September. Gibb, whose latest address was the Travelodge in The Ginnel, was ordered to complete up to 10 further rehabilitation-activity days as part of the suspended sentence which runs for two years. The court ordered that his drug-rehabilitation programme would continue.