stock police image A TIRADE of vicious abuse towards a single police officer has landed one teenager in court. The young defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of harassment without violence at a hearing at Reading Magistrates Court. The court heard how the 17 year old subjected one police officer to an onslaught of abuse and derogatory comments over a period of five months. On one occasion the teenager shouted at the police officer in the street repeatedly yelling f ing plastic police officer and pig . A separate occasion saw the youngster refer to the same officer as a plastic PCSO in public, and on a third occasion called the officer a dirty s g pig .
Shoplifters fined for stealing from shops in Bracknell and Wokingham FOUR people have been convicted of stealing alcohol and hair products from shops in Bracknell Forestover the couple of months. Of these shoplifters who appeared in Berkshire Magistrates’ Court on charges of theft, four of them pleaded guilty, three of which have been punished for their crimes. One is currently remanded in bail until November 11 but has entered a guilty plea. Another person was handed a suspended sentence because of how serious the theft was and others were given community orders. READ MORE: Man taken to hospital after incident in Market Street, Bracknell