Salisbury Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

On 9 March last year, Jaimee Long was caught driving at 51mph in a 30mph zone on St Edith's Marsh, Devizes. Police stopped him and a roadside breath test showed 66 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, almost double the legal limit. He was arrested and an evidential sample confirmed he was over the limit.

On March 18th, Joanne Venning was driving a Peugeot 2008 on the Beehive roundabout in Salisbury when she collided with a lamp post. She smelled strongly of alcohol, failed a roadside breath test and was arrested. She appeared at court on May 19 and was also ordered to pay a £200 surcharge and £85 CPS costs.

Jason Povey, 36, of no fixed abode, took a blue Kia Rio without consent and drove it while intoxicated in Trowbridge on the evening of October 13, 2025. The vehicle was reported damaged in a car park on Marston Road with its entire front offside tyre blown out. Witnesses saw the car driving along Marston Road with sparks coming from the tyres. Povey was located nearby with a bottle of vodka, unsteady on his feet, and arrested after refusing to provide a specimen for analysis. Enquiries confirmed he took the vehicle without consent. Thankfully, there were no injuries or reported collisions.

Mihai Bacar, 38, of Westbury Road, Walthamstow, was driving a blue Mercedes erratically in Chippenham on August 17, veering into opposite lanes, speeding, and parking across two bays in a car park. He appeared unsteady on his feet and refused to provide a breath specimen when approached by police. He was arrested for failing to provide a specimen, driving without a licence, and driving without insurance.

Vallipuram Selvasenthuran became besotted with a teenage girl after seeing her on a bus and began staring at her and loitering around her. On March 1, 2025, he approached her in the street, giving her a gift and a letter in which he called her 'special' and the 'sweetheart of my life', claiming he had admired her for up to three years. This behaviour left the victim feeling threatened, stressed, and paranoid, impacting her school performance and daily life. Her family reported the incident to the police, leading to his arrest.

Lee Welden, 55, of Clover Lane in Durrington, stalked his ex-wife by planting a tracker in her car, continually messaging her, driving past her house, and contacting others to obtain information about her between November 1, 2024, and March 23, 2025. He hid the tracker in the car in February after falsely claiming he needed to borrow it to transport a mattress. This behaviour caused the victim significant distress, including feelings of discomfort, exhaustion, and loss of privacy, as detailed in her victim statement.

Myles Bromley, 37, of Buckeridge Road, harassed his ex-partner over 28 days in September and October 2024 by sending numerous messages on WhatsApp and social media, writing letters, sending flowers and cards, attending her address in Ludgershall, and causing her internet to be cut off, despite knowing she did not want contact.

Jack Gumbleton-Small dumped two bags of dry mortar and other waste in Coombe Bissett in October 2025. He was recorded on council CCTV removing waste from a vehicle and leaving it at the site within the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, classified as a priority deciduous woodland habitat. The Salisbury household recycling centre was open nearby on the day of the offence.