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By Advertiser Reporter Hudsons Field and, inset, the efit released by Crimestoppers Pictures: SALISBURY JOURNAL/CRIMESTOPPERS A STRANGER who molested a woman in her own caravan was unmasked after police matched his DNA to the scene. Nicholas Wells, 29, who pleaded guilty to sexual assault at Salisbury Crown Court on Friday, knocked at the door of his victim’s caravan in Hudson’s Field, Salisbury, the day before he launched his vile...

A 14-year-old boy was remanded into youth detention – after he smashed a kebab shop window.

A man was arrested after shouting abuse at a Barclays bank manager, a Swindon court heard.

A Birmingham man who slapped his partner in a hotel lobby has been fined. Lamar Burris, 24, of Selcroft Avenue, was found guilty in his absence by Bristol magistrates earlier this month – then picked up on a warrant and put before Swindon Magistrates’ Court today. The West Midlands man had denied assaulting a woman in the lobby of a central Bristol Travelodge on September 4 last year. Prosecutor Emma Charleton told Swindon JPs Burris and his partner had checked into the hotel on Aug...

A WILTSHIRE man will stand trial over allegations he threw plaster over a Swindon traffic warden. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, Robert Silk, 32, of Bradenstoke, pleaded not guilty to assault by beating and criminal damage. It is alleged he threw plaster over a Swindon Borough Council traffic warden in Old Town on July 16 last year. At the time, an image of the plaster-hit warden was shared by Swindon council. Swindon Council shared this picture of its traffic...

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...

Clockwise from top: Savers, Esso, Co-op Pictures: GOOGLE A SHOPLIFTER was banned from Savers, a Co-op branch and Esso – after he admitted basket dashes in December and January. An eagle-eyed police officer caught Jake Morrish red-handed with a basket of goods from the Beechcroft Road Co-op on January 9, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Further checks linked him to the theft of £225-worth of fragrance sets from Savers on December 11 and 13 and the theft of £60-worth of food from the...

Stock picture of a drone (left) and Swindon Magistrates Court (right) Pictures: PEXEL/ADVER A DAD confronted the pilot of a drone he believed had been flown too low over his garden, where his young daughter was playing in a paddling pool. Peter Wells, 57, kicked the £1,200 drone down the road after it was brought into land, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Prosecutor Emma Charleton told magistrates the drone’s owner, who has a licence to fly the item and has lived in the same house ...

Swindon Magistrates Court A 14-year-old boy brandished a machete in the early hours of New Year’s Day – warning another lad he would be stabbed. And when the victim’s father followed the boy, who was on bail and awaiting sentence for GBH, going equipped for theft and knife possession but cannot be named as he is under 18, he waved the knife at him, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Magistrates remanded him into the care of the local authority with strict bail conditions banning hi...

A CHRISTMAS Day knifeman drove into an ambulance while four times over the drink drive limit. Milen Mlandenov, 39, had called paramedics on December 25 for help with his drink problem having that day sunk a litre-and-a-half of vodka, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. He had already gone to his doctor about his alcoholism. He had spoken to the 999 crew about harming himself. Prosecutor Emma Charleton said: “Whilst paramedics are in the house, Mr Mlandenov walks into the kitchen, picks ...