Generic image of a bank card. Image via pxhere.com FRAUD by false representation that s what you get charged with when you use someone else s bank card to buy things. And there s often a big penalty when you get caught out spending under a name that isn t yours. Here s five people from Berkshire who were sentenced for spending using a bank card that didn t belong to them.
Anthony Wareham, of Birlington Road, was caught spending more than £130 on a bank card belonging to another man in Slough in May 2020. The 40-year-old made six different transactions all on the same day last year.
Van driver fined more than £6,000 for breaching weight restrictions A VAN driver was ordered to pay more than £6,000 after breaching weight restrictions by 900kg. At about 8.25am on September 11, traffic enforcement officers spotted a Mercedes Sprinter van driving along the A4 Bath Road in Beenham, Berkshire. The Public Protection Partnership said the van looked very low to the ground and under strain. The van then drove onto a weighbridge and was found to be overweight by 900 kilograms, about 25.7 per cent. The vehicle s owner and operator pleaded guilty at a court hearing on Friday, May 7 at Reading Magistrates Court. The defendant company was ordered to pay £5,750, £175 contribution towards costs and a £170 Victim’s Surcharge, in total, £6,095.
But occasionally the Golden Arches are not the fast-food havens we all know and love. We’ve scoured through the court lists to find all the people who have appeared at Berkshire courts accused of offences at McDonald’s.
Mohhamed Sallah, of Mount Pleasant Road, Dartford, was fined £110 after he dropped a cigarette on the floor outside the McDonald’s on Bean Road. The 32-year-old, whose name doesn’t sound dissimilar to Liverpool FC forward Mohamed Salah, was also told to pay a victim surcharge of £34 and costs of £100. Sallah appeared at Slough Magistrates Court on Friday, February 26. Another man,