The meeting was arranged in the days that followed and officers arrested the defendant at the pier.
Bournemouth Pier. Picture: PA During interview, Taylor, who has autism and Asperger’s, initially made no comment but went on to say the situation had been a “fantasy he never intended to go through with”. Mitigating, Roderick Blain told the judge it was a question of “how long” his client was jailed for rather than the type of sentence issued in this case. He said first contact with the undercover officer to arrest covered just three days. The barrister described the way Taylor behaved as “very unsophisticated”.
The Duck in Poole Road, Westbourne. Picture: Google Maps/ Street View A MAN has been ordered to pay compensation after damaging a door at a Westbourne bar. Anthony James Beazant admitted causing £115.50 worth of damage to the door which belonged to The Dancing Duck. The incident took place at the Poole Road bar on September 24, 2019. Beazant, 32 and of Lindsay Road, Poole, pleaded guilty to a single charge of criminal damage when he appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, February 23. The bench issued the defendant with a £40 fine, as well as an order to pay £85 costs and £115 compensation.
A “prolific shoplifter” who stole more than £1,770 worth of goods from Tesco, Boots and Co-op to fund a drug addiction has been ordered to pay just £50 in compensation. Adam Daniel James Haggett, 41, of Poole Hill Road, Bournemouth, stole £224.40 worth of Cadbury’s chocolate from Tesco in lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, on March 3 last year, and £113.70 worth of confectionary from the same store on March 10. On February 16 last year, he also stole a bottle of vodka from the Co-op store in Sandford, Wareham, worth £22.50. The defendant, who had a host of previous convictions, then stole goods from Boots in Station Road, Swanage, worth £558.92, on April 25. Four days later he stole goods worth £854.92 from the same store.
Jonathan David Parrott, aged 20 and of Ambleside Crescent, Farnham, was in Dorset on December 28, 2020. The defendant appeared in the dock at Poole Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, February 17, in relation to an allegation brought under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (All Tiers) (England) Regulations 2020. He was also charged with possession of 5.6 grams of cannabis, a quantity of Xanax tablets and being drunk and disorderly in St Peter’s Road. Parrott admitted all of the offences and was handed fines totalling £360, which included a £200 penalty for the Covid breach. He was also ordered to pay £85 costs and a £36 surcharge. The drugs were to be forfeited and destroyed.