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Swindon Magistrates Court A CAR enthusiast who’s banned from driving was caught by police moving a project car onto his driveway. Lawyers for Lukas Karulaitis claimed he’d bought the BMW 328i intending to do some work on it outside his home in North Swindon. Tony Nowogrodski said the 22-year-old furniture deliveryman had been parking up the new car when he was caught by a PCSO on December 23 last year. Prosecutor Ben Worthington earlier told Swindon Magistrates’ Court that Karulaitis had produced his driver’s licence when he was asked for ID. He had initially been disqualified in 2019 after totting up 12 or more penalty points, Mr Worthington said. Last year, he was convicted of disqualified driving.
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The driver of the car was sent on a divers awareness course.
PC Paul Brewer of the Roads Policing Unit said: This incident highlights how the impact of drugs in the system can impair your decision making process. Drugs have a detrimental impact on your ability to judge time and distance and this collision could potentially have been avoided if this was not a factor.
The footage captured Dodson being thrown into the air in the crash in Swindon last year
Dodson, 27, was left with a broken pelvis and left arm following the crash
Dodson was founds to be over the drug driving limit, and had herbal cannabis in his backpack
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Janusz Pielak outside Swindon Magistrates Court Picture: ADVER A FISHERMAN was caught trying to bring his knife and a pair of secateurs into the magistrates’ court. Janusz Pielak, 59, told the justices last year that he had the “ordinary fishing knife” as he was due to go fishing with a colleague after his court appearance. He was working in the garden before being picked up and had put the secateurs in his bag.
Swindon magistrates this week sentenced him to 12 weeks’ imprisonment, suspending the jail time for a year. Chairman of the bench Iain Cooper told Pielak: “If you commit any offences at all during that 12 month period you are more than likely to be sent to prison.”
By Advertiser Reporter AN ALLEGED rogue tradesman will appear before Swindon Crown Court next month. Robert Hughes, 30, is said to have targeted two pensioners in Swindon in 2019 – allegedly telling one man he had installed a soakaway when he had not. Appearing before Swindon Magistrates’ Court, Hughes, of Cranleigh, Surrey, entered no pleas to three counts of fraud. He is accused of failing to disclose to two customers information about their rights to cancel proposed works and making a false representation to one man that he’d installed a soakaway. The offences were allegedly committed in October 2019. The case has been brought by Swindon Borough Council’s trading standards department.