By Court Reporter
Recovering heroin addict Andrew Barnes assaulted his seriously ill elderly father after a row in his parents Seaview home. A RECOVERING heroin addict who left his seriously ill elderly father breathless after he pushed him against a television and to the floor, convinced Isle of Wight magistrates he deserved a chance to get off drugs rather than be jailed. Andrew Mark Barnes admitted assaulting his elderly father, Ronald Barnes, 84, by beating, on the afternoon of March 16. Barnes, who was living with his parents in Sandcove Rise, Seaview, attacked his father following a heated row in his bedroom.
A NEWPORT woman who was described as having been homeless, cold and miserable appeared in court for being abusive towards her support worker. Helen Louise Gibbons, 53, care of an address at Royal Exchange, appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Monday. She admitted using threatening or abusive words to cause harassment, alarm or distress. Prosecutor, Ann Smout, told the court Gibbons had shouted insults at her outreach support worker on New Year s Day. She said the victim had been employed to work at Calverts Hotel, which was being used as a homeless shelter. She had been helping Gibbons with housing and other needs, and had been on her way to work when she saw Gibbons mumbling to herself outside.
Robert James Rowell, 23, of Rew Close, appeared before the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court last Tuesday. He admitted drink driving, taking a motor vehicle without the owner s consent, and using a motor vehicle without insurance. Ann Smout, prosecuting, said on November 7, 2020, Rowell was driving while over the prescribed alcohol limit. He registered 86 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the legal limit is 35. Mrs Smout said a couple had been asleep in their Ventnor home, near the junction of Trinity Road and Madeira Road, when they heard an almighty bang outside. When they looked out of the window, they saw a VW Touran had crashed into their house, and saw a young man Rowell walking away.
Hampshire woman first in UK to be banned from road for drink driving on e-scooter A 20-year-old woman has become the first in Britain to be convicted of drink driving on an e-scooter. Kyah Jordan was almost three times over the limit when she went through a red light and almost crashed into an unmarked police car. In court, her lawyer tried to argue that she was travelling so slowly on the electrically powered contraption she couldn t have posed a danger to anyone. But magistrates banned the 20-year-old from the road for two years, stating it s a motor vehicle, the same as a moped, the same as a bus .