Telford Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Cameron Harley assaulted a man in the beer garden of the Bricklayers Arms in Shrewsbury on December 16, 2023. After leading an intoxicated friend inside, he returned and punched the victim once in the face, knocking him unconscious for around 30 seconds. The victim suffered a fractured vertebra and cuts and bruising to his face.

Renee Hammonds was given a Civil Injunction Order in June following a series of anti-social behaviour incidents on a residential street in Telford. She breached the conditions of the order the following month. She failed to appear at Telford Magistrates' Court on 25 August for sentencing and was sentenced in her absence. She was arrested on 11 September and began the custodial sentence.

Scott Mills, 53, of no fixed abode, was caught drinking alcohol in Shrewsbury town centre on 19 August 2026 in breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order. He had been given a five-year CBO in April 2023 due to anti-social behaviour, with a condition prohibiting him from drinking alcohol in public areas in the town centre. Officers saw him in Pride Hill, arrested and charged him. He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to 34 weeks imprisonment.

On 17 March, prison officers at HMP Stoke Heath searched Ronnie Bevan's cell and found an iPhone, charging cable and Wi-Fi box hidden inside a fire alarm. Bevan admitted possessing an item in prison without authority. He was currently serving a 13-year prison sentence for murder.

Hundreds of calves at the Shukers' Staffordshire farm were found severely underweight after receiving inadequate nutrition, without appropriate veterinary treatment, and in conditions lacking sufficient dry bedding, with faeces found in feeding troughs. The farm recorded a 25% cattle mortality rate, and dead calves were found left exposed. In March 2023, more than 200 calves were seized after the couple failed to comply with an improvement notice, and additional calves were later brought onto the farm. In a linked RSPCA investigation, a German Shepherd died in March 2023 after extreme hunger led her to eat wood shavings and plastic; her body was left in her bed for five days.

Troy Greer used threatening, abusive, or insulting words and behaviour towards numerous people in Macclesfield on 8 November 2025. He acted with intent to cause fear of immediate unlawful violence or to provoke violence. He pleaded guilty to the public order charge.

Hundreds of calves at the Shukers' Staffordshire farm were found severely underweight after receiving inadequate nutrition, without appropriate veterinary treatment, and in conditions lacking sufficient dry bedding, with faeces found in feeding troughs. The farm recorded a 25% cattle mortality rate, and dead calves were found left exposed. In March 2023, more than 200 calves were seized after the couple failed to comply with an improvement notice, and additional calves were later brought onto the farm. In a linked RSPCA investigation, a German Shepherd died in March 2023 after extreme hunger led her to eat wood shavings and plastic; her body was left in her bed for five days.

On 19 May, Lukas Boubentik was driving a Volvo V50 on Crescent Road in Hadley while using a hand-held mobile phone. Police discovered that he was already disqualified from holding a driving licence and was driving without third party insurance. He pleaded guilty to three driving offences.

Andrew Rose drove a white Mazda in Telford on 18 April while already disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence. He had fitted a false registration mark to the vehicle and was found to be driving without valid third party insurance.

Kulveer Chopra committed a series of shoplifting offences at stores across Wellington, stealing items worth approximately £1,400. He was arrested on 28 June 2026, charged and remanded, and sentenced at Telford Magistrates' Court the following day.

Mohamad Almustafa, of Kingsland in Telford, was identified from videos showing him driving his BMW dangerously in Halesfield in Telford in March. He was sent a Notice of Intended Prosecution and charged with dangerous driving. He pleaded guilty on 18 May at Telford Magistrates Court.

On 30 March 2026, Tatenda Chiweshe was driving a Peugeot on Whitchurch Road in Shrewsbury with 104 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath (legal limit 35 microgrammes). She appeared before Telford Magistrates’ Court on 15 May 2026 and was sentenced after pleading guilty to driving a motor vehicle when her alcohol level was above the limit.

On 26 April 2026, Reginald Frimpong drove a Ford Fiesta dangerously on the M54, Stafford Park, and the A442. He was also driving without a licence and without third-party insurance on Stafford Park 11.

Daniel Hodnett and an accomplice stole a wheelie bin from Hoop Mill in Hadley on the evening of Monday 27 January 2025. They dragged the bin to a footbridge over the A442 near the Wombridge Interchange and lay in wait for a vehicle. At around 1.52am a marked police car on routine patrol approached without blue lights or sirens. The pair launched the 240-litre bin from the footbridge; it crashed onto the police car, shattering the windscreen and causing it to cave in over the driver's side. Two officers suffered minor injuries and were treated at hospital but returned to work the following day. Hodnett was identified from a social media appeal and arrested.

Between 1 March and 20 March 2025, David Barber pursued a course of conduct which he knew, or ought to have known, amounted to the harassment of the victim by repeatedly calling and sending text messages to her.

David Curt, 18, of Dilliars Walk, West Bromwich, drove a Vauxhall Antara dangerously on 26 February 2026 at the Asda in Donnington and on Donnington Wood Way. He also used a motor vehicle on St Georges Road without third party insurance on the same date.

On 8 April 2026, the 35-year-old of Oakfield Road was spotted driving a white Ford Transit on Brunel Road whilst already disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence and over the legal drink-drive limit, with 55 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath (legal limit 35 microgrammes).

On 28 February 2025, Lister sent a grossly offensive and indecent message via Facebook to the Predator Awareness community group, intending to cause distress or anxiety. On 23 August 2025, he made an abusive and threatening phone call to police emergency staff in the Police Operations Room.

On 21 March 2026, David Ward, 42, of Birchfield Way, was operating a white Polestar in the Lawley Morrisons supermarket car park with a breath alcohol level of 72 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath, more than double the legal limit of 35 microgrammes. He was also drunk in charge of a child under the age of seven years at the same location.

On 28 November 2024, Scott Parkin was found in possession of a knuckle duster on York Road in Shrewsbury, charged with possessing an offensive weapon in a public place without lawful authority or reasonable excuse. In a separate incident on 11 October 2025 in Shrewsbury, he used threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm, or distress.

On 15 March 2026, Stuart Bruckshaw was in charge of a Toyota RAV 4 on Humber Lane in Telford. A breath test revealed he had 107 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, significantly exceeding the prescribed legal limit of 35 microgrammes.

On 24 February 2026, Nathan Challinor, 35, of Union Street, Hadley, was at Malinsgate police station in Telford when he was found to be in possession of a knife without good reason or lawful authority. He was also accused of stealing a knife belonging to West Mercia Police on the same date.

On 2 October 2024, Craig Lynas, 49, of Coronation Crescent in Madeley, was driving a black Kia Ceed on Court Road in Madeley when he failed to stop for a police constable in uniform. Investigations revealed he was driving while disqualified, without third-party insurance, and without due care and attention. He failed to co-operate with a preliminary roadside drug wipe and refused to provide a blood specimen for analysis. This was his sixth offence for driving whilst disqualified and fifth for driving with excess alcohol.

On Tuesday 10 March 2026, at 7.52pm, Reed Beers shone a green laser at a National Police Air Service fixed-wing plane assisting ground officers in searching for a suspect with a suspected firearm in Ketley Bank, Telford. The aircraft had been circling for 59 minutes. The laser's origin was pinpointed to his address on Old Office Road in Dawley. Upon arrest, Beers claimed he was using a red laser from an air rifle to photograph a drone, denying knowledge of any aircraft and ownership of a green laser. However, two green laser pens were found hidden in his property, and NPAS footage confirmed the laser came from his home. No photos of aircraft were on his camera.

On 27 November 2025, Nicholas Tye, 29, of Oak Road, Brewood, was driving an Audi A3 at Junction 6 of the M54 in Telford. He was tested and found to have cocaine at 17 ug/L and benzoylecgonine at 276 ug/L in his blood, both exceeding the legal limits under the Road Traffic Act.

Aso Mohammed, director of Kola Ltd trading as Best One Store on St John’s Hill in Shrewsbury, was involved in the illegal sale and possession for sale of oversized vapes, vapes without regulated labelling, and counterfeit tobacco. The offences occurred on four separate occasions during targeted visits by Shropshire Council’s trading standards officers over the course of 2025.

On 15 February 2026, Aranpal Dhillon was found on Britannia Way in Hadley in possession of a machete without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, and also in possession of a quantity of cannabis, a Class B controlled drug.

On 7 May 2025, while detained at HMYOI Brinsford in Wolverhampton, Riley Preece was found in possession of an unauthorised offensive weapon described as a large nail, approximately 15cm in length, which had been sharpened and embedded into a vape cap to create a bladed or sharply pointed article.