AN ALLEGED burglar will appear before the crown court next month. Frankie O’Dwyer, 20, is accused of breaking into a house in Westbury Park, Royal Wootton Bassett, on December 15 and stealing keys to a silver Mercedes, bank cards and £20 cash. He is said to have stolen the £20,000 66-plate Mercedes. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, O’Dwyer, of Baydon, near Aldbourne, entered no pleas to burglary and theft. Pleas to the burglary charge could only be taken at the crown court, JPs heard. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger withdrew allegations that O’Dwyer assaulted a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke on April 3 and had a prohibited mobile phone in the Wiltshire jail on July 7. The magistrates were told the charges would be withdrawn as the police had not sent sufficient detail about the allegations.
AN ALLEGED burglar will appear before the crown court next month. Frankie O’Dwyer, 20, is accused of breaking into a house in Westbury Park, Royal Wootton Bassett, on December 15 and stealing keys to a silver Mercedes, bank cards and £20 cash. He is said to have stolen the £20,000 66-plate Mercedes. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, O’Dwyer, of Baydon, near Aldbourne, entered no pleas to burglary and theft. Pleas to the burglary charge could only be taken at the crown court, JPs heard. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger withdrew allegations that O’Dwyer assaulted a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke on April 3 and had a prohibited mobile phone in the Wiltshire jail on July 7. The magistrates were told the charges would be withdrawn as the police had not sent sufficient detail about the allegations.
Whitbourne Avenue, Parks Picture: GOOGLE A SUSPECTED drug dealer was arrested at a Park North home – just hours before police applied to the magistrates for a closure order. Wiltshire Police asked the court to slap a three-month partial closure order on the Witbourne Avenue council house after a drug raid and tip-offs that the occupant was hosting parties in contravention of coronavirus rules. Making the application at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning, PC Michael Diffin said earlier that day officers had caught a man at the house with 50 wraps of suspected class A drugs and £400 cash on him. He was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
Gent Jakupi outside Swindon Magistrates Court in October Picture: ADVER PHOTOGRAPHER Over two tonnes of potentially contaminated meat which could have made its way into people’s mouths has been seized from a Wiltshire car wash owner - the second time Gent Jakupi has been caught preparing food in an unsafe way. Wiltshire Council officers working with a Food Standards Agency veterinary officer executed a search warrant at premises on Andover Road, Ludgershall, and found whole and part carcasses being cut under poor conditions, exposing the meat to contamination. The meat confiscated by the council’s environmental health officers included beef, lamb and goat, which was being cut and packed for sale in the UK.
A TROWBRIDGE man threatened to “sort his neighbours out”, a court heard. Police called to Clifford Moye’s home in Glebe Road on December 11 found him in the garden acting aggressively. They had planned to serve him with a community protection notice. Prosecutor Graham Dono told Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday the 53-year-old said he was going to “sort them out”, which was taken to be a threat to the neighbours, with whom he was in dispute. Moye was taken into custody over concerns he was planning to harm himself. Appearing before the magistrates’ court via video link from Melksham police station, Moye, of Glebe Road, Trowbridge, pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour.