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A BANNED driver called a Wiltshire Police to check if he could ride his electric scooter.

A BANNED driver called a Wiltshire Police to check if he could ride his electric scooter.

RAIDING police officers found a small amount of cocaine on a Walcot man’s bedside table. Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard officers executed a warrant at Samuel McCulloch’s home in Hunsdon Close on July 16. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger told JPs: “A small amount of drugs have been recovered by officers, I think when the officers have searched the room he uses. I think there was a small amount of white powder on a bedside table.” Interviewed by police, he said he sometimes used cocaine but as far as he was aware there were no drugs in the house. Appearing before the justices, McC...

The junction of Norfolk Road and Netherhampton Road, where the crash happened Picture: GOOGLE AN AMAZON driver knocked a woman with his wing mirror – forcing her into a hedge, a court heard. Cristian Flinta, 50, was out delivering parcels in his Vauxhall Vivaro van in December 2019 when he pulled onto the pavement. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger told Swindon Magistrates’ Court a woman was walking down Norfolk Road in Harnham, near Salisbury, with her daughter. “She said at the time it was getting dark and the street lights were on. As she’s walking along the pavement a white van h...

Wharf Road, Wroughton Picture: GOOGLE A DRINK driver was caught after police called to a prang followed a trail of spilled oil back to the man’s van. Mitchell Morgan, 25, was almost four times over the drink drive limit when he was tracked down by officers, Swindon Magistrates’ Court heard. Prosecutor Keith Ballinger told JPs Morgan was behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Astra van that struck railings and a lamppost on Wharf Road, Wroughton, at around 11pm on Sunday, September 6. As he drove away, the Astra driver was overheard say he was “going to get in so much trouble”.