Salisbury Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Philip David Dawson was recorded driving on Glenavy Road in Lisburn at 80mph, 20mph above the speed limit, on May 25, 2026. He had earlier contested the charge but did not attend court and was convicted in his absence.

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.

Harvey Teale, 18, of Larkhill, was seen stumbling into his Vauxhall Corsa at about 1.30am on 28 September 2025, three weeks after passing his driving test. Witnesses alerted police, and officers found the car being driven erratically towards Southampton Road. He failed a roadside breath test and was over the legal alcohol limit. He pleaded guilty at Salisbury Magistrates Court and was fined, ordered to pay costs and a surcharge, and disqualified from driving.

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.

Daniel Davis, 33, was sentenced after breaching a Sexual Harm Prevention Order by possessing a mobile phone with a camera, which was prohibited under the order. The breach came to light during ongoing police investigations.

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 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, 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.

Michael Trainor was involved in a two-vehicle collision on June 19, 2026, on Gravehill Road in Lisburn. He had missed a turn and reversed at speed towards a car behind him, colliding with it despite the other driver sounding the horn. He was holding a handheld device used as part of his job at the time. The driver of the other vehicle was injured. Trainor was charged with driving without due care and attention and driving while unable to have proper control of a vehicle.

David Joseph Emmanuel Quinn was charged with permitting the use of a motor vehicle without insurance. On 21 April 2024, police received a report of a vehicle being driven without valid insurance and stopped a Ford Focus on the Belfast Road in Lisburn. The owner of the vehicle was in the passenger seat while another man was driving. Checks showed the vehicle was not insured to be driven by a third party.

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.