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 serious offence. You may say it’s only words; well, it’s not only words. “You have to imagine what it’s like to be a police officer. Police officers do one of the most difficult jobs in our society.
Swindon Magistrates Court PROSECUTORS dropped charges against five teenagers accused of taking part in a Penhill brawl after none of their key witnesses turned up for the trial. The five young men, all but one under 18, were alleged to have been part of a gang of up to 15 who went looking for another boy in a Penhill street on December 7, 2019. Only one man, Jay Mapstone, has faced justice for the attack. The 19-year-old was jailed for 16 months last September. Prosecutor Leigh Hart told Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday that none of the Crown’s main witnesses had arrived for the trial “I’m not surprised, because there has been contact from both the police officer in the case and victim liaison unit to say three of the Crown’s witnesses have refused to engage,” she said.
Swindon Magistrates Court PROSECUTORS dropped charges against five teenagers accused of taking part in a Penhill brawl after none of their key witnesses turned up for the trial. The five young men, all but one under 18, were alleged to have been part of a gang of up to 15 who went looking for another boy in a Penhill street on December 7, 2019. Only one man, Jay Mapstone, has faced justice for the attack. The 19-year-old was jailed for 16 months last September. Prosecutor Leigh Hart told Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Thursday that none of the Crown’s main witnesses had arrived for the trial “I’m not surprised, because there has been contact from both the police officer in the case and victim liaison unit to say three of the Crown’s witnesses have refused to engage,” she said.
Matley Moor, Liden Picture: GOOGLE A WARRANT was issued for the arrest of a man allegedly in charge of a dog that attacked a woman in Liden last summer. Anthony Moroney, 43, of Radnor Street, Kingshill, had been due before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to answer a charge of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog that caused injury. A woman was said to have been attacked in Matley Moor, Liden, on June 7 last year by an American pocket bulldog. The charge is an offence under the 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act and carries a maximum penalty of five years’ imprisonment if dealt with at the crown court.
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 him from various areas in Park South, including Cavendish Square. Prosecutor Emma Charleton told the court on Saturday that police were called at 1.42am over shouting in a Park South street.