The following cases were heard at Swindon Magistrates Court earlier this week.

MANNINGTON: Three people have appeared in court charged with stealing goods worth £656.50 from the Swindon TK Maxx.

28-year-olds Ancuta Alexandra-Zlate, of Clarence Road in London’s Wood Green, and Aron Petre, of Barking Road in East Ham, pleaded guilty to shoplifting from the store together on February 20, 2024.

A third defendant, a 16-year-old girl who cannot be identified due to her age, faces the same charge and her hearing has been adjourned to October 8, 2024.

Alexandra-Zlate has been jailed for eight weeks due to her participation in organised commercial shoplifting which causes a huge danger to retail security, her driving deliberately to the shop and taking high value goods, and because a child was present at the time of the offence.

Petre received a fine of £500 and must also pay £85 in court costs plus £200 to fund victim services.

TOOTHILL: Bailey Davidson, of Beaumaris Road, has been sentenced for assault by beating.

The 21-year-old pleaded not guilty but was later found guilty of hitting a woman in Swindon on May 13, 2024.

He must pay a fine of £180 as well as £100 in court costs and £72 to fund victim services.

FRESHBROOK: Sandra Smith, of Gainsborough Way, has been sentenced for theft from a shop.

The 59-year-old pleaded guilty to stealing goods worth £702.82 from TK Maxx on July 7, 2024. 

She must pay £350 in compensation, which will be deducted from her benefits. There was no order to pay court costs.

TOWN CENTRE: Giorgi Kodua, of Euclid Street, has been sentenced for two driving offences.

The 31-year-old pleaded guilty to driving a Kia along Hoopers Place on August 11, 2024, without valid insurance after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of it in his breath, namely 77 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeded the prescribed limit.

He received a 20-month driving ban and must pay a fine of £150 as well as £85 in court costs and £65 to fund victim services.

TOWN CENTRE: Kayleigh Nicholls, of Sheppard Street, has been sentenced for two offences.

The 28-year-old admitted to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress in Swindon on September 7, 2024, and beating a male police officer on the same date.

She has been jailed for 13 weeks because the assault was committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence and due to the serious nature of the offences.

FERNDALE: Danny Devlin, of Thorney Park, has been sentenced for two offences.

The 31-year-old pleaded guilty to driving a BMW along Royal Wootton Bassett High Street  without due care and attention and assaulting a woman by beating her on November 3, 2023.

He received nine penalty points on his driving licence and must pay fines totalling £380 as well as £85 in court costs plus £128 to fund victim services.

MOTORWAY: Richard Brown, of Ryegrass Close in Wantage, has been sentenced for drug driving.

The 30-year-old pleaded guilty to driving an Audi A4 along the M4 near Swindon on May 3, 2024, when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol , in his blood -  9.3 micrograms of drug per litre of blood - exceeded the specified limit.

He received a year-long driving ban and a £200 fine and must also pay £85 in court costs plus £80 to fund victim services.