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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 imagi...

Clockwise from top: Savers, Esso, Co-op Pictures: GOOGLE A SHOPLIFTER was banned from Savers, a Co-op branch and Esso – after he admitted basket dashes in December and January. An eagle-eyed police officer caught Jake Morrish red-handed with a basket of goods from the Beechcroft Road Co-op on January 9, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Further checks linked him to the theft of £225-worth of fragrance sets from Savers on December 11 and 13 and the theft of £60-worth of food from the Dorcan Way Esso on December 8. Prosecutor Emma Charleton said 25-year-old Morrish had 60 offences...

Stock picture of a drone (left) and Swindon Magistrates' Court (right) Pictures: PEXEL/ADVER A DAD confronted the pilot of a drone he believed had been flown too low over his garden, where his young daughter was playing in a paddling pool. Peter Wells, 57, kicked the £1,200 drone down the road after it was brought into land, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Prosecutor Emma Charleton told magistrates the drone’s owner, who has a licence to fly the item and has lived in the same house for several decades, had had to bring the kit into land slowly on April 9 last year in order to avo...

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 th...

A CHRISTMAS Day knifeman drove into an ambulance while four times over the drink drive limit. Milen Mlandenov, 39, had called paramedics on December 25 for help with his drink problem having that day sunk a litre-and-a-half of vodka, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. He had already gone to his doctor about his alcoholism. He had spoken to the 999 crew about harming himself. Prosecutor Emma Charleton said: “Whilst paramedics are in the house, Mr Mlandenov walks into the kitchen, picks up a knife and says ‘I can end all of this now.’ “At this point paramedics fear not only for...