By Advertiser Reporter A TYRE fitter was caught driving on a bald tyre. Learner driver Marco Rodrigues, 22, who was stopped by police in Lincolnshire and Swindon, was fined £1,300 and banned from the roads for a year after he admitted driving without a licence or insurance, drink driving, driving on bald tyres and failing to appear before the court. Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard that police in Stamford, Lincolnshire, stopped a hired BMW in West Street just before midnight on September 19 last year. He initially gave false details before admitting his mistake. He was not insured to drive the car and only had a provisional licence.
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Picture: PEXELS A BMW driver who was caught over the cocaine limit was banned from the roads for a year. Oliver Slade, 26, was stopped at the Marlborough Road service station on October 29 last year. Police initially stopped him as there was an issue with the hire agreement on the 69-plate BMW 520 he was driving. Officers asked him to complete a drugs wipe, which came back positive for cocaine. Blood tests showed he was three times the limit for cocaine and four times the limit for by-product benzoylecgonine. Slade, of Northampton Street, Swindon, was found guilty in his absence of two counts of drug driving. He has no previous convictions.
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Swindon Magistrates Court A WESTBURY man is accused of locking his girlfriend in her house during a campaign of physical and verbal abuse lasting several days. Anthony Watson, 22, is said to have taken the teenager’s phone and keys after locking her in her flat last month. Prosecutor Kate Prince told Swindon magistrates on Monday it was claimed Watson had assaulted the woman, accused her of being unfaithful, made repeated demands to see her phone and verbally abused her. Police were called to the woman’s flat on April 29 after a passing youth allegedly saw her call for help from a window.
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Greggs, Canal Walk A HOMELESS man who stole from shops and cars has been jailed for almost a year. Anthony Ryan, 25, targeted high street names like Greggs, Tesco and Co-op and stole bikes from outside Swindon homes during his seven month spree. Sending him to prison for 46 weeks, chairman of the Swindon Magistrates’ Court bench Linda Raine said: “We do feel the custody threshold has been passed and definitely for the bladed article, which we’ve heard is a minimum six month sentence.” Prosecutor Kate Prince told the court that Ryan stole doughnuts from Greggs, perfume from Savers and £2 worth of flapjacks from Kingshill service station in February and March of this year.