Bromley Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Explore 131 verdicts at Bromley Magistrates' Court (Bromley). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

Darren West

Drug-driving

July 22, 2025

Sentence: £365 fine, costs, and surcharge; banned from driving for 12 months

Drove a Kia on Connington Road, Lewisham, while a blood test showed 400 microgrammes of benzoylecgonine per litre on February 22, 2025.

Rachel Middleton

Theft

July 22, 2025

Sentence: Eight weeks imprisonment and £442.52 in compensation

Stole eight jars of Nescafé Gold coffee worth £69.52 from Asda, Deptford High Street, on June 20, 2025; stole cleaning and household goods worth £111.75 from the same Asda on June 19, 2025; stole Dettol wipes, Fairy products, Persil liquid, and Lenor fabric conditioner worth £69.25 from Sainsbury’s in Honor Oak Park on June 9, 2025; and stole steak worth £192 from the same Sainsbury’s on June 2, 2025.

Pleaded guilty to multiple thefts. The prison term runs concurrently across all offences.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Jerome Simpson

Sending indecent or menacing message

July 17, 2025

Sentence: Conditional discharge for 12 months and £26 surcharge

Sent an indecent or menacing message by public electronic communications network on March 9, 2023, at Plumstead, Greenwich.

Joe Curry

Drug possession

July 17, 2025

Sentence: Community order until July 16, 2026, with up to 10 rehabilitation activity days and 40 hours of unpaid work

On January 14, 2024, at Abbey Wood, Greenwich, possessed a Class A drug (crack cocaine), a Class B drug (one snapbag of cannabis), and another Class A drug (heroin).

Pleaded guilty to possessing Class A drugs (crack cocaine and heroin) and a Class B drug (cannabis). Must pay £199 in costs and surcharge. The drugs will be forfeited and destroyed.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Daniel Pasca

Drink-driving

July 16, 2025

Sentence: £859 fine, costs, and surcharge; banned from driving for 12 months (reducible by 13 weeks if a drink-drive rehabilitation course is completed by February 15, 2026)

Drove an Audi A6 on Green Lane, Penge, while over the drink-drive limit on June 15, 2025; a breath test showed 57 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 ml of breath.

Michael Blackwood

Threatening behaviour and criminal damage

July 16, 2025

Sentence: 12-month conditional discharge and £261 in compensation, court costs, and surcharge

Used threatening or abusive words or behaviour intended to cause harassment, alarm, or distress to a police officer on duty on December 26, 2024, at Bexleyheath, and damaged a Metropolitan Police van at the same location.

Pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour and damaging a police van. No separate penalty for the damage offence.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Lugard Giddings

Failing to provide a sample for drug test

July 14, 2025

Sentence: £120 fine

Lugard Giddings failed to provide a non-intimate sample for a Class A drug test while in police detention at Bexleyheath Police Station on June 14, 2025, resulting in his fine.

Admitted failing to provide a non-intimate sample for a Class A drug test. Must pay £85 in prosecution costs and £48 victim surcharge, totalling £253, in £20 monthly instalments starting August 11, 2025.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Gary Antonio Miller

Driving without due care and attention

July 11, 2025

Sentence: £220 fine and four penalty points on licence

Gary Antonio Miller drove a Mercedes Vito on Lee Road, Blackheath, without due care and attention on July 30, 2024, leading to his conviction and sentencing.

Found guilty after trial. Ordered to pay £650 in costs and £88 victim surcharge, totalling £958, by August 11, 2025.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Daanyaal Andrews

Breach of community protection notice

July 10, 2025

Sentence: £440 fine

Daanyaal Andrews failed to comply with a community protection notice by continuing to play music loud enough to be heard outside his address in Erith on November 15, 2024.

Fined for failing to comply with a community protection notice. Must pay £300 in prosecution costs, bringing total to £740.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Shaun Goode

Failing to provide a specimen and driving offences

July 10, 2025

Sentence: £325 in fines and costs, and 10 penalty points on licence

Shaun Goode failed to provide a urine specimen when suspected of being in charge of a Mini Cooper on Ravensbourne Park, Lewisham, on May 20, 2025, and also drove the same car without insurance and without a proper licence.

Pleaded guilty to failing to provide a urine specimen, driving without insurance, and driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence. Fined £120 for the insurance offence.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Ali Arslan

Carrying a prohibited weapon

July 9, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 10 rehabilitation-activity days and 80 hours of unpaid work

Ali Arslan carried a zombie knife on Beatrice Road, Southwark, on April 10, 2025, which led to his arrest and sentencing under a community order running until July 8, 2026.

Admitted carrying a zombie knife. The weapon is to be forfeited and destroyed. Must pay £85 costs and £114 surcharge, totalling £199, by August 6, 2025.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Ben Wright

Possession of controlled drugs

July 9, 2025

Sentence: Six-month conditional discharge

Ben Wright possessed ketamine and cocaine in Bexleyheath on May 18, 2024, leading to his arrest and a conditional discharge that applies to both offences.

Indicated guilty pleas to possessing ketamine and cocaine. The court ordered forfeiture and destruction of the drugs and imposed a £26 victim surcharge, payable by August 6, 2025.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Francesca Feeney

Driving with excess alcohol

July 9, 2025

Sentence: £253 fine and 22 months driving ban

Francesca Feeney drove an Audi A3 on Beckenham Lane, Bromley, on June 7, 2025, with 74 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, leading to her arrest and sentencing.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. Option to reduce driving ban by 22 weeks if she completes a drink-driver rehabilitation course by October 5, 2026. Payments at £20 a month from August 6, 2025.

Sources: thisislocallondon.co.uk

Matthew Freeman

Stalking

July 4, 2025

Sentence: 12 weeks imprisonment and a restraining order until further notice

Matthew Freeman stalked a woman in Greenwich between March 1 and April 30, 2025, by shouting abuse in the street and turning up at her home and workplace, leaving her seriously alarmed and distressed. The restraining order forbids direct or indirect contact and prohibits him from going to her home or place of work.

Admitted stalking. Must pay a £114 victim-services surcharge at £20 a month from July 31, 2025; no order for prosecution costs due to time already spent in custody.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Michael Henry

Driving with excess alcohol

July 3, 2025

Sentence: 12-month community order with 150 hours of unpaid work, and a 24-month driving ban (reducible by 24 weeks upon completion of a drink-driver rehabilitation course)

Michael Henry drove a Route 176 London bus on Dartmouth Road, Lewisham, on May 1, 2025, with 96 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the legal limit of 35 micrograms.

Admitted driving a bus while over the drink-drive limit. Must pay a £114 victim-services surcharge at £20 a month starting July 31, 2025; no order for prosecution costs due to job loss.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Tara Cox

Assault on a police officer

July 3, 2025

Sentence: Community order until July 2, 2026, including 12 months of mental-health treatment and up to 25 rehabilitation-activity days, plus £100 compensation to the officer

Tara Cox assaulted a police officer on duty in Lewisham on November 28, 2023, including two separate assaults during the same incident.

Admitted to assaulting a police officer. A collection order was made to deduct £20 a month from August 31, 2025, until compensation is paid.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Winston Eubank

Shop theft

July 3, 2025

Sentence: Community order until July 2, 2026, including six months of non-residential drug rehabilitation, a 26-day accredited programme, up to 15 rehabilitation-activity days, and £600 compensation to Sainsbury’s

Winston Eubank committed multiple shop thefts from Sainsbury’s on Creek Road, Deptford, and Boots on Greenwich Church Street, between March 26 and May 8, 2025, stealing items including chocolate, meat, Red Bull, coffee, and health-and-beauty products worth more than £1,500, with one incident involving £355.25 of chocolate and meat.

Indicated guilty pleas to a series of shop thefts. Banned from entering any Sainsbury’s or Boots store for three months until October 2, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

George Hodkin

Throwing a missile at a football match

July 1, 2025

Sentence: £225 fine, prosecution costs, and victim-services surcharge

George Hodkin threw a mobile phone towards the spectators’ area during a Millwall football match at The Den, SE16, on October 23, 2024, contrary to sections 2 and 5 of the Football (Offences) Act 1991.

Pleaded guilty to throwing a mobile phone towards the spectators’ area during a football match. A collection order was made for repayment at £20 a month.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Andres Micolt Palacios

Driving with excess alcohol

July 1, 2025

Sentence: £1,065 fine, CPS costs and victim-services surcharge, and a 12-month driving ban (reducible by three months upon completion of a drink-drive rehabilitation course by January 30, 2026)

Andres Micolt Palacios drove a BMW 316i on Valley Road, Shortlands, on May 23, 2025, with 52 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the legal limit of 35, and did so without insurance and not in accordance with his licence.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol, without insurance and otherwise than in accordance with a licence. Licence was endorsed, but no separate penalties imposed. A collection order was made for repayment at £100 a month starting July 29, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Andres Micolta Palacios

Driving with excess alcohol

July 1, 2025

Sentence: £1,065 fine, Crown Prosecution Service costs, and victim-services surcharge, plus a 12-month driving ban (reducible by three months upon completion of a drink-drive rehabilitation course)

Andres Micolta Palacios drove a BMW 316i on Valley Road, Shortlands, on May 23, 2025, with 52 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the legal limit of 35 micrograms. He also drove without insurance and not in accordance with his licence.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and related offenses. Licence endorsed, with repayment at £100 a month starting July 29, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Andres Micoltapalacios

Drink-driving

July 1, 2025

Sentence: £1,065 fine, CPS costs, and victim-services surcharge. Banned from driving for 12 months, reducible by three months upon completion of a drink-drive rehabilitation course by January 30, 2026.

Andres Micoltapalacios drove a BMW 316i on Valley Road, Shortlands, on May 23, 2025, with 52 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the legal limit of 35 micrograms. He also drove without insurance and not in accordance with his licence.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol and related offenses. Licence endorsed, with repayment at £100 per month starting July 29, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Andrew Simpson

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm

June 26, 2025

Sentence: 24-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and £150 compensation

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm on January 30, 2025, in Lewisham.

Pleaded guilty to assault. Ordered not to contact the victim for a year; payments at £20 a month from July 26, 2025; no costs or victim-surcharge imposed as compensation takes priority.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Shane Lawrie

Breaching a criminal behaviour order

June 26, 2025

Sentence: £80 fine

Breaching a criminal behaviour order by having drug paraphernalia, including cannabis grinders, crack pipes, and syringes, in Lewisham on June 24, 2025.

Pleaded guilty to breaching a criminal behaviour order. The order was made by Bexley Magistrates’ Court on August 30, 2024, and barred him from having drug paraphernalia.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Louis Smith

Racially aggravated intentional harassment

June 25, 2025

Sentence: £150 compensation and 12-month conditional discharge

Racially aggravated intentional harassment on February 6, 2024, in Thamesmead, Greenwich.

Pleaded guilty to racially aggravated intentional harassment. Payments in £20 monthly instalments starting July 23, 2025; no separate costs or surcharge.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Abdul Rouf

Drug-driving

June 25, 2025

Sentence: £407 fine, costs, and surcharge; banned from driving for 12 months

Driving a Vauxhall Corsa on Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, with 3.5 micrograms of THC in his blood—above the legal limit—on February 14, 2025.

Abu Massaquoi

Possession of cannabis

June 25, 2025

Sentence: £282 fine and costs

Possessing four bags of cannabis, a Class B drug, on October 7, 2024, in London, in the Borough of Southwark.

Pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis. The drug was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed under section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Darren Henry

Criminal damage

June 25, 2025

Sentence: £750 compensation

Damaged a car worth about £3,700 on May 11, 2024, in London, in the Borough of Lewisham.

Pleaded guilty to criminal damage. Payments to be made at £50 a month from August 4, 2025; no separate costs or surcharge.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Forida Parvin Chowdhury

Blue Badge fraud

June 25, 2025

Sentence: £80 fine, £300 costs, and £32 victim-services surcharge

Forida Parvin Chowdhury falsely claimed that someone else had been driving her VW16 YJF and displayed a stolen Blue Badge (serial ME84AA) at Bexley Civic Offices on June 10, 2024.

Admitted Blue Badge fraud. A collection order was made for repayment at £20 a month from July 23, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Davy Eastwood

Possessing a controlled drug and offensive weapons

June 2, 2025

Sentence: 12-month community order with a 28-day electronically monitored curfew from 8 pm to 6 am, and pay £199 in court costs and surcharge

Possessing a controlled drug of Class B (cannabis) and two offensive weapons (an extendable baton and a knuckleduster) on February 25, 2025.

Matthew Jones

Assault by beating

June 2, 2025

Sentence: Community order until June 1, 2026, including a 60-day alcohol-abstinence monitoring tag, ten rehabilitation-activity days, and a ban on entering the Elmers End Tesco; pay £299 in compensation, costs, and surcharge

Assault by beating committed at Beckenham on February 24, 2025.

Lee Raymond

Driving with alcohol above limit

May 29, 2025

Sentence: Fined £353 and ordered to pay £226 in costs and surcharge; endorsed with 10 penalty points on driving record

In charge of a motor vehicle with alcohol level above limit (65 µg of alcohol in 100 ml of breath) on the Swanley By-Pass on August 27, 2023.

Derek Deschamps

Possession of offensive weapons

May 16, 2025

Sentence: Four-month prison sentence suspended for 12 months

Carried a kitchen knife in Medusa Road and a baseball bat in Rushey Green on March 14 2025.

Must pay a £154 surcharge in £20 monthly instalments and complete up to 20 rehabilitation-activity days; weapons ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Julius Adesida

Driving under the influence of alcohol

May 13, 2025

Sentence: 12-month driving ban (reducible by three months if a drink-driver rehabilitation course is completed by December 12 2025), £484 fine, £85 costs and £194 surcharge

Drove a BMW 520d on the M20 in Kent with 36 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath (above the legal limit of 35) on March 22 2025.

Chinemerem Nwuba

Being in charge of a vehicle while over the alcohol limit

May 13, 2025

Sentence: £465 fine, £85 costs and 56-day driving ban

Was in charge of a BMW 4 Series in a Woolwich McDonald’s car park with 75 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath (above the legal limit of 35) on April 6 2025.

Leon Sparks

Theft

May 13, 2025

Sentence: Community order running until May 12 2026, including a year of non-residential drug treatment at CGL, up to 20 rehabilitation-activity days and a 12-month ban from every Sainsbury’s store in south east London

Stole about £330 of goods from Sainsbury’s in Greenwich on February 22 2025.

Louis Hines

Driving under the influence of drugs

May 13, 2025

Sentence: £80 fine, £85 costs, £32 surcharge and 12-month driving ban

Drove on St Mildreds Road, Lewisham, with 4.4 microgrammes of cannabis metabolite THC in his blood (above the legal limit of 2) on February 17 2025.

Marcel Vintila

Driving under the influence of alcohol

May 13, 2025

Sentence: 36-month driving ban (reducible by 36 weeks on completion of a drink-driver rehabilitation course) and £423 fine with £85 costs

Drove a Mercedes CLK on Nelson Road and Trafalgar Road, Greenwich, with 48 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath on March 2 2025, and possessed a small amount of cocaine on the same date.

Admitted driving with 48 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath and possessing a small amount of cocaine, but received no separate penalty for the cocaine.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Connor Reed

Fare evasion

May 7, 2025

Sentence: £660 fine, £150 costs, £260 surcharge and £4.80 compensation

Travelled on a Southeastern service from Welling without paying the £4.80 fare on January 9 2025.

Abdulmumin Yusuf

Fare evasion

May 7, 2025

Sentence: £220 fine, £150 costs, £88 surcharge and £14.80 compensation

Rode a Southeastern service from Elmstead Woods beyond his paid destination between Grove Park and Paddock Wood without settling the extra fare on December 3 2024.

Danny Slattery

Drug-driving

March 10, 2025

Sentence: 12-month conditional discharge and banned from driving for 12 months; £26 victim-services surcharge

Driving a black BMW 1 Series on Manor Road, Erith, with at least 2.4 micrograms of THC in his blood—above the legal limit—on August 11, 2024.

Pleaded guilty to drug-driving. Payments in £20 monthly instalments starting July 23, 2025.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Chevron Bailey

Drug driving

October 25, 2024

Sentence: One-year community order including 150 hours of unpaid work and disqualified from driving for 44 months

Chevron Bailey, 29, of Patmore Estate in Battersea, admitted drug driving in Detling on August 25.

Karen Bradford

Theft

October 25, 2024

Sentence: £120 fine

Karen Bradford, 41, of Ennersdale Road in Hither Green, admitted theft from BP Lee High Road on May 29.

Mohammed Mohsam Ali

Assault by beating

October 25, 2024

Sentence: One-year community order including 240 hours of unpaid work

Mohammed Mohsam Ali, 30, of Elsiemaud Road in Crofton Park, was found guilty of assault by beating against a woman on December 23.

Nimar Saadat

Sexual assault

October 14, 2024

Sentence: Pay £150 compensation and detention deemed served by time already spent in custody

Nimar Saadat, 30, of The Mound in Eltham, admitted to sexually assaulting a female by touching in Woolwich on January 13.

Saif Ali

Assault and possession of a machete

October 14, 2024

Sentence: 24 weeks imprisonment

Saif Ali, 27, of no fixed abode, admitted to possessing a serrated edge machete in a private place and assaulting a police officer by spitting blood at them.

Admitted possessing a serrated edge machete in a private place and assaulting a police officer by spitting blood at them.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk

Jonathan Chittenden

Drink driving

October 14, 2024

Sentence: Disqualified from driving for three years and fined £80

Jonathan Chittenden, 45, of Elmcroft Road in Orpington, admitted to drink driving on September 11.

Reiss Stanley

Public order offence

October 10, 2024

Sentence: three-year football banning order and £400 fine

Reiss Stanley committed a public order offence on March 9, 2024.

Mark Robins

Theft

October 10, 2024

Sentence: one-year community order and banned from the shop

Mark Robins stole vodka, chocolates, and cake from Sainsbury’s in Lewisham Shopping Centre and committed a racially aggravated public order offence.

Lee Moore

Harassment

October 10, 2024

Sentence: 18-month community order

Lee Moore harassed a woman on May 23, 2024, by repeatedly attending an address he had been asked to leave and being verbally aggressive towards the household occupants.

Admitted harassing a woman by attending an address various times after being asked to leave and being verbally aggressive towards occupants.

Sources: newsshopper.co.uk