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Craig Day and, inset, a file image of a swan A DRUNK made leering comments towards a woman at Coate Water then challenged a dog walker to a fight, a court heard. Craig Day, 32, who was seen throwing things at swans on the Swindon lake, also admitted trying to kick down his former partner’s front door. Sentencing the Liden man to an 18 month community order at Swindon Magistrates’ Court, chairman of the bench Martin Smith said: “Two unpleasant offences – very unpleasant offences – and then your ex-partner. If you want to get back with her that’s not going to help.”
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Boots locum pharmacist wrote false Codeine prescription A PHARMACIST wrote out a prescription for Codeine after he was threatened as he put out the bins, a court heard. Locum pharmacist wrote out a prescription for the opiate pain killer while working at the Boots store in Marlborough. Lawyers for Ariyan Hassan, 27, claim he was threatened by an unknown man while he was putting the bins out outside his home. Martin Hadley, defending, told Swindon Magistrates’ Court last week: “He’s challenged by an individual who says get me this stuff or else. “It’s not duress because he’d got plenty of time to run – run to the police - in the intervening period. He knows he’s been a fool.
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A SWINDON driver caught going almost double the speed limit on Great Western Way has been banned from the roads for three years and fined. Shortly before 11pm on October 25 last year, police spotted a BMW 118 racing down the 30mph section of road towards the Bruce Street Bridges roundabout at 59mph. Officers stopped the car on North Star Avenue and arrested 31-year-old Lee Black of Cagney Drive in Abbey Meads before taking him to Gablecross Police Station while the car was seized. At the station, Black failed to complete the breathalyser procedure by providing insufficient samples. He pleaded guilty to exceeding a 30mph speed limit and failing to provide a specimen for analysis at Swindon Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.