The air rifles seized by police Picture: WILTSHIRE POLICE These are the air rifles found on a man who blew five times the legal drink drive limit after he was arrested. Police swooped after reports of Joseph McLaughlin holding one of the weapons in The Parade in Swindon town centre on Sunday afternoon. He’d told a town centre security guard he would “shoot someone”. Taken to the police station, the 31-year-old said he’d had the weapons as he wanted to protect his family. He blew 171 on the breath test machine – almost five times the legal drink drive limit.
AN ALLEGED burglar will appear before the crown court next month. Frankie O’Dwyer, 20, is accused of breaking into a house in Westbury Park, Royal Wootton Bassett, on December 15 and stealing keys to a silver Mercedes, bank cards and £20 cash. He is said to have stolen the £20,000 66-plate Mercedes. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, O’Dwyer, of Baydon, near Aldbourne, entered no pleas to burglary and theft. Pleas to the burglary charge could only be taken at the crown court, JPs heard. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger withdrew allegations that O’Dwyer assaulted a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke on April 3 and had a prohibited mobile phone in the Wiltshire jail on July 7. The magistrates were told the charges would be withdrawn as the police had not sent sufficient detail about the allegations.
AN ALLEGED burglar will appear before the crown court next month. Frankie O’Dwyer, 20, is accused of breaking into a house in Westbury Park, Royal Wootton Bassett, on December 15 and stealing keys to a silver Mercedes, bank cards and £20 cash. He is said to have stolen the £20,000 66-plate Mercedes. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning, O’Dwyer, of Baydon, near Aldbourne, entered no pleas to burglary and theft. Pleas to the burglary charge could only be taken at the crown court, JPs heard. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger withdrew allegations that O’Dwyer assaulted a prison officer at HMP Erlestoke on April 3 and had a prohibited mobile phone in the Wiltshire jail on July 7. The magistrates were told the charges would be withdrawn as the police had not sent sufficient detail about the allegations.
Whitbourne Avenue, Parks Picture: GOOGLE A SUSPECTED drug dealer was arrested at a Park North home – just hours before police applied to the magistrates for a closure order. Wiltshire Police asked the court to slap a three-month partial closure order on the Witbourne Avenue council house after a drug raid and tip-offs that the occupant was hosting parties in contravention of coronavirus rules. Making the application at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning, PC Michael Diffin said earlier that day officers had caught a man at the house with 50 wraps of suspected class A drugs and £400 cash on him. He was arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply class A drugs.
A TROWBRIDGE man threatened to “sort his neighbours out”, a court heard. Police called to Clifford Moye’s home in Glebe Road on December 11 found him in the garden acting aggressively. They had planned to serve him with a community protection notice. Prosecutor Graham Dono told Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Saturday the 53-year-old said he was going to “sort them out”, which was taken to be a threat to the neighbours, with whom he was in dispute. Moye was taken into custody over concerns he was planning to harm himself. Appearing before the magistrates’ court via video link from Melksham police station, Moye, of Glebe Road, Trowbridge, pleaded guilty to disorderly behaviour.