In court from Newport, Caerphilly and Ebbw Vale A ROUND-UP of cases heard at Newport Magistrates’ Court and Cwmbran Magistrates’ Court.
MACAULEY LUKE PRINCE, 23, of Jamaica Circle, Newport, was banned from driving for 12 months after he pleaded guilty to drug driving with cannabis derivative delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in his blood on Canal Terrace on February 6. He was ordered to pay £470 in a fine, costs and a surcharge.
ALEX FRADD, 26, of Coleridge Road, Newport, was banned from driving for 12 months after he admitted drug driving with cocaine derivative benzoylecgonine in his blood on Lilleshall Street on January 6. He was ordered to pay £239 in a fine, costs and a surcharge.
The court ordered that the £3,849 be confiscated or the defendant will face three months in prison in default. During Mantell’s sentencing hearing last year, prosecutor Nuhu Gobir told how the defendant had used his drug profits to splash out on designer clothes. Mantell’s barrister Andrew Taylor said his client seemed more “Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles than Sirhowy Valley” with Louis Vuitton as one of the defendant’s favourite fashion houses. Mr Taylor told the court: “All the goods were for him. He had a fixation for expensive designer trainers and wanted designer goods at the top end.”