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Other cases at magistrates court included A driving offence has cost a Brierley Hill man £339. Damian John Groves, aged 23, of High Street, admitted driving his Saab at Bells Lane without insurance and was fined £200 and ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and £34 into the victim service fund. A Halesowen man who has ‘turned his life around’ has avoided being sent to jail. Jonathon Peter West, aged 34, of Codham Road, Halesowen, admitted stealing alcohol worth £72 from the Co-op, and was given a conditional discharge for a year and ordered to pay £72 compensation. The theft...

A Halesowen man who has ‘turned his life around’ has avoided being sent to jail. Jonathon Peter West, aged 34, of Codham Road, Halesowen, admitted stealing alcohol worth £72 from the Co-op, and was given a conditional discharge for a year and ordered to pay £72 compensation. The theft meant he had breached a 27-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months imposed in April. But magistrates decided that sending him to prison would have been disproportionate given the changes he had made to his life and instead extended the sentence by three months. Other cases at magistrates court inc...