Doncaster Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

On 6 November 2025, a five-year-old boy was with his mother in Schofield Park Playground in Mexborough when Dylan Wilcox's dog Buddy latched onto the boy's face. The child suffered puncture wounds to his face and ears that required hospital treatment. Wilcox left the scene with the dog and was later arrested on Wath Road.

Shane Billingham, 45, of Wrightson Avenue, Warmsworth, committed a number of public order offences in July 2025 by becoming verbally abusive towards council engagement officers and members of the neighbourhood policing team in Doncaster city centre. He made violent threats and shouted obscenities in front of members of the public, leading to his arrest and subsequent sentencing.

South Yorkshire Police executed a warrant at an address in Thorne on 3 December 2024. Officers discovered and seized 16 air weapons, a crossbow, CS gas, a stun device, two knuckledusters, two wooden batons, an extendable baton, three throwing stars, five swords and 38 knives. David Walker, of Alexandra Street, was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon (a knuckle duster), possession of ammunition for a firearm without a certificate and possessing a firearm without a certificate. He pleaded guilty at Doncaster Magistrates' Court on 17 January 2025.

Gemma Bermingham caused unnecessary suffering to protected animals, namely Malinois dogs known as Luna and Major, and a black and white bull breed dog known as Rocco, by failing to provide adequate nutrition, and did not meet the needs of ten puppies for a suitable environment.

Vilhelm Virah deposited controlled waste in or on land, namely the rear of 45 Spansyke Street, Doncaster, without the required environmental permit.

On October 7, 2024, RSPCA inspectors found Callum Felton's three-year-old malinois dog Coco living in an empty property on Borrowdale Close, Carcroft, Doncaster, in appalling conditions including a horrendous smell of faeces and ammonia, household rubbish, damaged flooring with shards of glass, heavily soiled beds, and no accessible food. The dog was moderately underweight with a body condition score of 2/9. This followed an advisory notice given to his mother on July 20, 2024, to improve the animal's care.