Teesside Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Alex Wood was charged with 33 shoplifting offences involving goods with a combined value of over £5,000, mainly from stores at Cleveland Retail Park. He was remanded in custody and appeared at Teesside Magistrates Court on 14 September 2026, where he was jailed for 44 weeks and made subject to a five-year criminal behaviour order.

On 4 August 2024, during widespread far-right disorder in Middlesbrough town centre, Carl Sharp, a 22-year-old milkman, threw two bricks through the glass door of the Red Lantern Chinese takeaway on Parliament Road. He was filmed laughing and applauding as wheelie bins were set ablaze and projectiles were hurled at police cordons. He also threw a missile at police officers. The unrest, involving around 1,000 people chanting 'take our country back', resulted in £600,000 worth of damage and significant policing costs. The takeaway was later burgled by others. Sharp was identified via CCTV and arrested.

On August 18, 2025, Tracey Mackey, 57, from Fabian Road, Eston, drove a Citroen car while over the legal alcohol limit and dangerously, ploughing into the victim's brand-new Kia Sportage at a junction on Fabian Road. The collision left the victim with a broken wrist and his car written off. CCTV captured the incident where Mackey's vehicle hit the victim's car with significant force, sending both vehicles careering into the road.

Michael Todd, a 54-year-old resident of Palm Street, Middlesbrough, was known to Middlesbrough Council for regular public drug use and frequently caused disturbances by begging in the town centre. He was verbally abusive towards council staff. The criminal behaviour order prohibits him from entering the shopping area of Middlesbrough town centre, begging, or sitting on the ground outside licensed premises, food outlets, or cash machines.

Martin Booker ran a rogue waste site on unregistered land near Saltburn, burning dumped waste and ignoring repeated warnings from the Environment Agency. An inspection in February 2022 found a large pile of rubbish including fridges, washing machines, shopping trolleys, vehicle parts and signs of burning. After some waste was cleared by May 2022, Booker resumed dumping, and further waste including a pram, a three-piece sofa suite and a TV was discovered by October 2022. By January 2023 the site was still piled with burning waste. Booker denied responsibility and blamed fly-tippers, but council evidence showed him in a scrap van in Saltburn in October 2023. He later pleaded guilty to three charges of dumping waste without the proper environmental permits.

Christopher Hobaiter, a landlord of Lyndon Avenue, Hartburn, Stockton, owned a house in Wilton Street, Middlesbrough, near Teesside University. Deadly carbon monoxide was leaking from a gas fire with a back boiler in the living room. Windows in the ground floor had been sealed and could not be opened, while ventilation had been jammed. Health and Safety Executive inspectors noted the tenant could easily have been killed by the fumes.