Two men fined for poaching in Northumberland
Two men have been fined hundreds of pounds for poaching with an illegal fishing net in a Northumberland river.
From: The recovered gill net and some of the dead fish.
David Moore, 30, of Staffen Court, Amble, and Adam Nyberg, 39, of Leslie Drive, Amble, were both charged with illegally fishing for salmon and sea trout with a gill net in the river Coquet near Amble.
They pleaded guilty when they appeared at Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 20 May. They were both fined £500, ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £50, and the forfeiture and destruction of the net was ordered.
Court. A MAN has denied assaulting a police officer after being accused of drink driving. At Newcastle Magistrates Court on May 19, Kier James Pearson (28), of Deneside Court, Newcastle, pleaded not guilty to assaulting an emergency worker, drink driving and driving without a licence. It is alleged that, on April 11 this year, Pearson was driving on the A69 at Hexham when he had 60 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitre of breath. The legal limit is 35mg. It is also alleged that Pearson drove without holding a valid licence. The defendant is also accused of assaulting a police constable on the same date.
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Breathalyser. A MOTORIST more than three times the legal drink drive limit has been given a suspended jail term. At Newcastle Magistrates Court on May 19, Robert William Blakeburn (49), of Biverfield Road, Prudhoe, was sentenced to 10 weeks in custody, suspended for 18 months, after admitting a charge of driving with excess alcohol. On October 19 last year, Blakeburn was driving on Wylam Wood Road, in Wylam, with 123 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35mg. Blakeburn had denied the charge at an earlier hearing, but changed his plea to guilty. In addition to the suspended jail sentence, he was ordered to abstain from alcohol for a period of 40 days.
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A drug driver has been banned from the roads after he was caught twice in just three days.