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In December 2019, he was jailed for 16 weeks after he smashed 43 windows at the Deer’s Leap pub in Penhill then kicked a police constable in the head. He was given 12 weeks in custody in January this year for assaulting an emergency worker and criminal damage. Mundy was released from prison on licence on March 22, just eight days before his first theft charge. Last August, Mundy was Mundy, of Station Road, admitted 10 counts of shoplifting. Mitigating, Gordon Hotson said his client had a long-term addiction to alcohol but was motivated to tackle his habit. He was currently helping ...

By Advertiser Reporter File image: PEXELS A DRIVER told police officers who caught him on a night time drive in breach of coronavirus rules that he couldn’t sleep. Nicholas Heavingham, 30, was stopped behind the wheel near Marlborough in the early hours of May 9 last year, when lockdown rules prevented people from being out of the house without a reasonable excuse. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger told Swindon Magistrates’ Court that Heavingham said to the officers he’d been out for a drive with his housemate because they couldn’...

Lewis Hoare's custody shot, released in 2014 by Thames Valley Police A MURDERER who kicked a Royal Navy veteran to death said he “wouldn’t tolerate bullies” – as he appeared in court for knocking down a prison guard. Lewis Hoare was 19-years-old when he was given a life sentence in 2007 for punching and kicking Brian Kitching, 68, in Southsea, Hampshire, two years earlier. He and three others falsely accused the retired navy rating of being a paedophile. Mr Kitching who died from his injuries six months after the attack. Hoare admitted his guilt and gave important evidence ag...

By Advertiser Reporter Fine for man who damaged motorbike and made threats A PARK North man smashed a door and tried to push over a motorcycle belonging to his neighbour’s grandson in the false belief they’d stolen cash from him. Mark Wilson, 53, said he was suffering from paranoia when he threatened the younger man and damaged the bike on November 13, 2020. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger said the bike’s owner had been visiting his grandmother in the block of flats she shared with Wilson when he heard the man attacking his own do...

By Advertiser Reporter Police confronted by knifewoman who 'didn't want husband to be arrested' A WOMAN shouted at police with a knife in her hand because she did not want her husband arrested. Police were called to the small Swindon flat shared by Amanda Harris and her husband and daughter on September 19 last year after reports of an argument. When they arrived, 53-year-old Harris and the man shouted out the window at the officers to leave. The police officers were let in by another resident, prosecutor Keith Ballinger told Swi...