Truro Magistrates' Court Sentencing Results

Explore 271 verdicts at Truro Magistrates' Court (Truro). Updated with the latest court outcomes.

Peter Tuckley

Drink driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 40 months driving ban, £833 fine

Peter Tuckley drove on Porthmeor Road, St Austell on 21 June with 84 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath exceeding the limit of 35.

Pleaded guilty. Ban reducible by 40 weeks if course completed. Ordered to pay £333 surcharge and £85 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Phillip Hancock

Drug driving and possession

August 8, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 100 hours unpaid work, 20 months driving ban

Phillip Hancock drove on Colenso Place, St Austell on 27 March with 2.5 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood exceeding the limit of two, 330 micrograms of BZE per litre of blood exceeding the limit of 50, possessed cocaine and cannabis, and used a vehicle without a test certificate.

Daniel Blake

Breach of criminal behaviour order

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 10-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months

Daniel Blake breached a criminal behaviour order by attending Bodmin Football Club on 28 July.

Pleaded guilty to breaching criminal behaviour order by attending Bodmin Football Club on 28 July. Magistrates noted his prolific record of breaching court orders.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Alex Owen

Drug and drink driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 48 months driving ban and £120 fine

Alex Owen drove on Truro Road, St Austell on 17 January with 32 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood exceeding the limit of ten and drove on Cromwell Road, St Austell on 27 April with 29 micrograms of alcohol per litre of blood.

Andrew Burdett

Taking vehicle without consent and driving without insurance

August 8, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 6 months alcohol treatment, 9 penalty points, £120 fine

Andrew Burdett took a BMW from Polperro without the owner’s consent and drove it without insurance on 22 November.

Andrew Palmer

Drug driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 12 months driving ban, £672 fine

Andrew Palmer drove on Moorland Road, St Austell with 6.9 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood exceeding the limit of two.

Barry Buckley

Drug driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 12 months driving ban, £120 fine

Barry Buckley drove on Phernyssick Road, St Austell on 15 March with 464 micrograms of BZE per litre of blood exceeding the limit of 50.

James Chapman

Drug driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 36 months driving ban, £553 fine

James Chapman drove on Elliott Road, St Austell on 5 April with 106 micrograms of BZE per litre of blood exceeding the limit of 50.

James Couper

Speeding

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 6 months driving ban, £84 fine

James Couper sped in a Maserati Ghibli on Exeter Street, Plymouth on 24 September.

Pleaded guilty under points totting procedure. Ordered to pay £34 surcharge and £90 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Jamie Bell

Criminal damage

August 8, 2025

Sentence: £40 fine and £90 compensation

Jamie Bell damaged a cell at Charles Cross Police Station by smearing and throwing faeces in it on 20 April.

Ian Brooks

Drink driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 16 months driving ban, £120 fine

Ian Brooks drove on the A390 at St Ive on 23 June with 59 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath exceeding the limit of 35.

Pleaded guilty. Ban reducible by 16 weeks if course completed. Ordered to pay £48 surcharge and £85 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Tom Powell

Drug driving and possession of cannabis

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 28 months driving ban and £200 fine

Tom Powell drove on the A390 at Threemilestone with 9.8 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood exceeding the limit of two and possessed 3.7g of cannabis in Truro on 4 August 2024; also drove in Newquay on 3 January with 7.6 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood.

Thomas Sturgess

Using handheld phone while driving

August 8, 2025

Sentence: £180 fine and 6 penalty points

Thomas Sturgess used a handheld phone when driving on the A38 at Bodmin on 14 December.

Found guilty after denying the offence. Ordered to pay £72 surcharge and £620 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Samuel Pedder

Speeding

August 8, 2025

Sentence: 14 days driving ban, £369 fine

Samuel Pedder sped on the A30 at Summercourt.

Gemma Crocker-White

Drink Driving

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 20-month driving ban and £120 fine

Drove on the B3254 towards South Petherwin on 16 February with 169 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, exceeding the limit of 80.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess alcohol. Ban reducible by 20 weeks if a course is completed. Ordered to pay a £48 surcharge and £135 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

James Molesworth-St Aubyn

Failing to Provide Information

August 2, 2025

Sentence: £666 fine and 18 points on licence

Failed to provide police with information as to who was driving a Ford Fiesta alleged to have been guilty of offences.

Pleaded guilty to three charges of failing to provide information to police. Spared a driving ban due to potential impact on mental health.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Kayleigh Dayment

Speeding

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 6-month driving ban and £84 fine

Speeding on the A30 at Cheriton Bishop in May 2024.

Lewis Mapstone

Theft

August 2, 2025

Sentence: Community order

Stole razors worth £1100 from Tesco in Wadebridge, cosmetics worth £3000 from Tesco in Camborne, razors worth £292 from Morrisons in Liskeard, and razors worth £442 from Tesco in St Austell.

Pleaded guilty to six offences of theft. Must complete 150 hours of unpaid work and pay £1460 compensation.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Andrew Baldwin

Using Handheld Phone While Driving

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 6-month driving ban and £379 fine

Used a handheld phone while driving on Manadon roundabout, Plymouth on 17 February.

Banned under totting procedure for using a handheld phone while driving. Ordered to pay a £152 surcharge and £90 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Aaron Reardon

Speeding

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 6-month driving ban and £166 fine

Speeding on New Road, Liskeard on 18 October.

Claydon Howe

Drug Driving

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 12-month driving ban and £120 fine

Drove on St Austell Road, St Blazey on 19 February with 5.4 micrograms of cannabis per litre of blood, exceeding the limit of two.

Pleaded guilty to driving with excess cannabis. Ordered to pay a £48 surcharge and £85 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Ryan Davies

Causing Injury by Dangerous Driving

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 12-month driving ban and £1296 fine

Caused serious injury to a woman on 11 December 2023 at Centenary Street, Camborne by driving a Ford Transit without due care and attention.

Pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by driving without due care and attention. Ordered to pay a £518 surcharge and £85 costs.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Tabitha Stafford

Driving Without Due Care and Attention

August 2, 2025

Sentence: £562 fine

Drove on the A390 at Lostwithiel on 4 January 2024 without due care and attention.

Changed not guilty plea to guilty for driving without due care and attention. Ordered to pay a £225 surcharge and £135 costs. Five points added to licence.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Stephanus Roos

Speeding

August 2, 2025

Sentence: 6-month driving ban and £614 fine

Speeding in a temporary 50 mph zone on the A30 at Plusha on 19 December.

Charles Yates

Driving while disqualified and related offences

July 12, 2025

Sentence: 18 weeks suspended sentence for 12 months with 6 months alcohol treatment, 12 months mental health treatment, and 2 years 2 months 24 days driving disqualification

Charles Yates drove a motor vehicle while disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence, used a motor vehicle on a public road without third party insurance, and failed to stop when required by a constable on May 17 at Snowdrop Crescent, Kensey Park, Launceston.

Offences include driving while disqualified, without insurance, and failing to stop when required by a constable.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Stephen Dodd

Engaging in sexual communication with a child

July 12, 2025

Sentence: 12 months suspended sentence for two years with 30 days rehabilitation activity and a 10-year sexual harm prevention order

Stephen Dodd, aged 18 or over, engaged in sexual communication with a decoy named Betsey O'Donnell, whom he did not reasonably believe to be 16 or over, between November 8, 2024, and November 11, 2024, in Hayle, by sending pictures of his exposed erect penis, asking her to masturbate, and inquiring about sex.

Adam Martin

Driving under the influence

July 11, 2025

Sentence: community order with a curfew

Adam Martin, 26, of Penrice Parc, St Austell, drove a BMW on Fore Street, St Austell on 8 February while exceeding the legal limits for BZE (254 micrograms per litre of blood) and alcohol (91 milligrams per 100 millilitres of blood), and without a valid driving licence or insurance.

Pleaded guilty to driving a BMW on Fore Street, St Austell on 8 February with excess levels of BZE and alcohol, and without a licence or insurance. The curfew requires him to remain at home between 7pm and 4am Monday to Friday for four months, and he was banned from driving for 30 months. Ordered to pay £85 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Aiden Parsons

Possession of cannabis

July 11, 2025

Sentence: £200 fine

Aiden Parsons, 18, of South Park, St Columb, possessed cannabis or cannabis resin while also charged with dangerous driving on the A392 at St Columb on 30 December, driving with excess cannabis in his blood, and driving without a licence.

Harry Waterman

Assault

July 11, 2025

Sentence: 16-week prison sentence

Harry Waterman assaulted a woman at New North Road, Exeter on 13 October by kicking her in the stomach while under the influence of alcohol, and later removed his alcohol monitoring tag on 3 June and refused refitting on 8 June.

Committed to prison for assaulting a woman at New North Road, Exeter on 13 October by kicking her in the stomach, described as a degrading and frightening act; also for removing his alcohol monitoring tag and refusing to have it refitted.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Hayley Rogers

Speeding

July 11, 2025

Sentence: six-month driving ban

Hayley Rogers, 40, of Attwood Lane, Pensilva, exceeded the speed limit while driving through St Anns Chapel in June 2024.

Pleaded guilty to speeding through St Anns Chapel in June 2024. Fined £40 and ordered to pay a £16 victim surcharge and £90 costs.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Nathan Carby

Assault

July 11, 2025

Sentence: 18-month conditional discharge

Nathan Carby, 27, of Margaret Crescent, Bodmin, assaulted a woman and damaged a mobile phone and curtain rails at Royffe Way, Bodmin on 4 March.

Pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman at Royffe Way, Bodmin on 4 March and damaging a mobile phone and curtain rails. Ordered to pay £750 compensation and made subject to a restraining order not to contact his victim or enter Royffe Way, Bodmin until 30 June 2028.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Michael Mcgreen

Theft

July 11, 2025

Sentence: two-year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £24 compensation to the Coop and £48.96 to Spar

Michael McGreen committed six thefts from shops in Liskeard, damaged a toilet at Charles Cross Police Station, and failed to surrender to court as required.

Pleaded guilty to six charges of theft from shops in Liskeard, criminal damage to a toilet at Charles Cross Police Station, and failing to surrender to magistrates’ court.

Sources: voicenewspapers.co.uk

Darren Rousen

Assault

July 5, 2025

Sentence: Community order with alcohol abstinence and monitoring, and rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 10 days

On January 6, 2025, at Truro, Darren Rousen assaulted a woman. He was also arrested for breaching bail conditions on June 5, 2025, by contacting a victim and entering Truro.

Ordered to pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service and a surcharge of £114.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Abigail Benson

Drink driving, driving without MOT, and driving without insurance

July 4, 2025

Sentence: 23-month driving ban (reducible by 23 weeks if a course is completed), £200 fine, and £85 costs

Abigail Benson drove on the A387 at Looe on 25 May with 92 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit of 35, and was also driving without a MOT or insurance.

Billy Rowe

Breach of Suspended Sentence

July 4, 2025

Sentence: 6 weeks imprisonment

Billy Rowe failed to attend unpaid work required under a suspended sentence for previous drink driving and driving whilst disqualified offences.

Sentenced for failing to turn up for unpaid work as part of a suspended sentence for prior drink drive and driving whilst disqualified convictions.

Sources: cornish-times.co.uk

Anya Sneddon

Drink driving

July 4, 2025

Sentence: 25-month driving ban (reducible by 25 weeks if a course is completed), £480 fine, £192 surcharge, and £85 costs

Anya Sneddon drove on Trelavour Square in St Dennis on 1 June with 101 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, exceeding the limit of 35.

Kyle Anthony Rhodes

Breach of community order

June 28, 2025

Sentence: £261 fine and a new community order

Kyle Anthony Rhodes, aged 26 from Rose Row, Redruth, failed to attend unpaid work and building better relationships appointments as required by a community order issued by Truro Magistrates Court on July 4, 2024.

Failed to comply with a previous community order by missing appointments on January 25, 2025, and May 15, 2025; required to complete a rehabilitation activity requirement up to 25 days by June 23, 2026.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Liam Reynolds

Animal welfare offences

June 19, 2025

Sentence: 26 weeks imprisonment and a 30-year animal ban

Liam Reynolds kept animals, including two dogs and five cats, in squalid conditions at his home in Flamborough Way, Plymouth. The property was cluttered with rubbish, faeces, and unsanitary enclosures, causing unnecessary suffering. This incident followed previous breaches, including handling ferrets and quails despite a ban imposed in 2019 after dogs were found starved and decomposed in his caravan in St Just.

Pleaded guilty to animal welfare offences. Had prior convictions and breaches of disqualification orders; judge stated he is cruel and not safe with animals, leading to custodial sentence.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Magenta Reynolds

Attempted theft from shop and assault occasioning actual bodily harm

June 14, 2025

Sentence: 18 weeks suspended sentence for 12 months, 100 days alcohol abstinence and monitoring, 25 days rehabilitation activity, £500 compensation

On June 16, 2024, at Truro, attempted to steal a bottle of wine valued at £9.25 from Spar in Pydar Stores and assaulted a person, thereby occasioning actual bodily harm.

Michael Owen

Racially aggravated common assault

June 14, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 20 days rehabilitation activity, £120 fine

On April 7, 2024, at Newquay, assaulted a person by beating in a racially aggravated manner.

Offence was racially aggravated under section 28 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

Nathanael Dallas Newton

Speeding

June 14, 2025

Sentence: £92 fine, 3 points disqualification

On November 11, 2024, drove a mechanically propelled vehicle on the A30 at the junction with Trewint and Five Lanes, and on the A30 between Chiverton Cross and Carland Cross, at speeds exceeding 60 miles per hour.

Paul Harris

Causing serious injury by careless driving

June 14, 2025

Sentence: £480 fine, 12 months obligatory disqualification

On August 25, 2023, caused serious injury to David Gotham by driving a Bateman crop sprayer on the A30 at Chybucca without due care and attention.

Henry Nott

Theft from a shop and possession of an offensive weapon

June 14, 2025

Sentence: 4 months suspended sentence for 12 months, £85 costs

On February 20, at Tesco in Penzance, stole four bottles of Circo Vodka valued at £152 and possessed a spiked knuckle duster as an offensive weapon in a public place.

George Chandler

Assault and driving while unfit

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 20 days rehabilitation activity and 120 hours unpaid work, plus 36 months driving disqualification and compensation of £200

On January 16, at Falmouth Road in Truro, assaulted three police officers acting in the exercise of their functions and drove while unfit through drink; also resisted a police constable on February 14 in Truro.

James Taylor

Assault

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 12 months mental health treatment and 20 days rehabilitation activity, plus fine of £40

On May 7, in Whitley Close, Truro, assaulted a police sergeant, an emergency worker acting in the exercise of his functions as such a worker.

Jennifer Von Savageri

Driving with excess controlled drug

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Community order with 6 months drug rehabilitation and review, plus 36 months driving disqualification and fine of £40

On December 13, 2024 at Redruth, drove a motor vehicle on Barncoose Terrace with ketamine in her blood exceeding the specified limit, and was in possession of a controlled drug, Class B - ketamine.

Benjamin Cantellow

Driving without a proper licence

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Fine of £220 and 3 penalty points

On November 29, 2024 at Truro, drove a motor vehicle on the A390 Treyew Road otherwise than in accordance with a licence authorising driving of that class.

Paul Orchard

Assault by beating

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Fine of £200 and compensation of £100

On April 4, in Malabar Road, Truro, assaulted an emergency worker, namely a police officer, acting in the exercise of her functions as such a worker, by beating her.

Salih Bozdag

Driving without licence and insurance

June 7, 2025

Sentence: Fine of £120 and 6 months driving disqualification

On October 18, 2024 at Falmouth, drove a car on Killigrew Street without a driving licence, without due care and attention, while not wearing a seat belt, and without third party insurance.

David Rillie

Animal neglect

June 6, 2025

Sentence: 10 years ban from keeping cattle, ordered to pay £6,688.67 in costs and £26 surcharge

David Rillie kept cattle in unacceptable conditions at Eastcott, Morwenstow, near Kilkhampton, including access to hazardous items like rubbish and sharp projections, insufficient food leading to poor body condition, and failure to provide prompt veterinary treatment for infected eyes and lameness. This followed previous warnings and a caution in 2024, with incidents reported in January 2025 and cattle escaping onto the A39.

Pleaded guilty to charges and cooperated with the investigation; credit given for early guilty plea.

Sources: cornwalllive.com

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