The latest cases to be heard at Harrogate Magistrates Court between July 8 and July 14

The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on July 10:

Thomas Blakey, 28, of Park Gate, Knaresborough, was fined £146 and had three points added to his licence for speeding, but there was no driving ban under the totting-up procedure due to mitigating circumstances. He was in a Citroen Relay which was travelling at above the 40mph speed limit on the B6165 Ripley Road in Knaresborough on October 20 last year. He was ordered to pay £90 prosecution costs and a £58 statutory surcharge, but the court didn’t impose a disqualification because he needed his driving licence for his work as a joiner.

The following were heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on July 12:

Dale Lister, 30, of Stockwell Avenue, Knaresborough, received a four-week jail sentence after he admitted the “wilful and persistent” failure to comply with the requirements of a community order. He breached the order by missing two probation appointments in April and May without reasonable excuse. Lister wasn’t sentenced for the breach but was re-sentenced for the original offence which brought about the community order. That offence occurred in December 2022 when he damaged a glass door and fence at a named woman’s home in Hull. Lister was jailed due to his “flagrant disregard for court orders”. He was also ordered to pay a £154 victim surcharge.

Ethan Wells-Smith, 30, of Church View, Dacre Bank, was fined £80 for failing to comply with post-custodial supervision requirements. The supervision order had been imposed following his release from a jail sentence. Wells-Smith breached the order by failing to be of good behaviour and thereby undermining the “rehabilitative purpose of the supervision period”. He also failed to keep in touch with his supervisor and failed to attend a probation appointment in May, which was also in breach of the order.