FOLLOWING gradual easing of the coronavirus lockdown, more criminals are being dealt with by the courts system.

This includes at Poole Magistrates' Court, where the following people have been sentenced for their crimes in the past week.

Bournemouth

JAMIE SHAKEAL BASTAFIELD, aged 35 and of Grosvenor Gardens, Bournemouth, admits trespassing in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, with intent to steal on March 18. Community order made to undergo treatment for drug dependency for 10 months and participate in activities for 25 days. To pay £90 surcharge and £50 costs. Also admits damaging a marked police vehicle in Christchurch Road on March 18. Community order made. Conviction of an offence while community order made for offences of burglary and possession of class A drugs. New community order made.

DAVID WILLIAM READ, aged 43 and of Branksome Wood Road, Bournemouth, admits breaching a restraining order imposed in September 2019 by sending text messages and leaving voicemails on June 29 in Bournemouth. Restraining order made in September 2019 varied. Fined £200, ordered to pay £100 compensation, £34 costs and an £85 surcharge.

JAMES GERARD GROARKE, aged 51 and of Avon Road, Charminster, admits assaulting a woman by beating her in Bournemouth on April 21. Community order made to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and participate in activities for 25 days. To pay a £95 surcharge and £85 costs. Also admits driving a Dacia Sandero in Braidley Road on April 21 with 47 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, which exceeded the prescribed limit. Community order made. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 12 months. Also admits having 1.24 grams of cocaine in his possession in Bournemouth on April 21. Community order made. Drugs forfeited and destroyed.

KYLE TAYLOR, aged 41 and of no fixed abode, admits causing harassment, alarm or distress to PC Renshaw by using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour with intent in Bournemouth on July 21. The court found the offence was aggravated due to hostility based on the sexual orientation, or presumed sexual orientation, of the victim. Fined £150, ordered to pay £34 surcharge and £65 costs.

North Dorset

KINGSLEY WILLIAM GREEN, aged 33 and of Vale View Road, South Newton, Salisbury, admits driving a Vauxhall car in Christy’s Lane, Shaftesbury, on October 23, 2019, with 2.1 micrograms of Delta-9-Tetrahydracannabinol – a psychoactive constituent of cannabis – in one litre of blood, which exceeded the specified limit. Fined £120. To pay £32 surcharge. Disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for 12 months.

Poole

LLOYD JOHN KEYNES, aged 38 and of Rushall Lane, Lytchett Matravers, Poole, admits breaching a domestic violence protection order on July 21 made by magistrates on July 18. Fined £60.

STUART DILLON, aged 41 and of Patchins Road, Poole, admits using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause police officers to believe immediate unlawful violence would be used against them or to provoke the immediate use of unlawful violence by them in Fitzworth Avenue, Poole, on April 8. Fined £200, ordered to pay a £32 surcharge. Also admits commission of a further offence while subject to a suspended sentence made in relation to two offences of battery and an offence of criminal damage. Sentence of 12 weeks imprisonment suspended for 12 months from November 2019 extended to 15 months.