Damage done to the Honda Jazz Picture: CPS WESSEX A bus driver who drove into a hatchback walked from court with a conditional discharge and five points on his licence. Stagecoach driver Mark Newman was behind the wheel of his double-decker bus on Ermin Street, Stratton, on the morning of June 2 last year when he pulled in to let another bus pass him. Prosecutor Kate Prince told Swindon Magistrates’ Court the 55-year-old’s vehicle struck a parked Honda Jazz at low speed as he pulled in to avoid the other bus. The prang, which was witnessed by a member of the public, damaged the Honda’s front nearside wing, wheel arch and suspension.
A SWINDON man shoved a police sergeant and threatened to kill him, a court heard. Joshua Richards pushed the officer, who had gone to the man’s partner’s home in Toothill following reports of a covid regulations breach, while serving on a suspended sentence for attacking another officer. Extending the earlier suspended sentence order to two years and imposing a new 12 week suspended sentence, District Judge Joanna Dickens tore into the 26-year-old. She said: “This is an incredibly serious offence. You may say it’s only words; well, it’s not only words. “You have to imagine what it’s like to be a police officer. Police officers do one of the most difficult jobs in our society.