A PROLIFIC shoplifter has been jailed for four months after admitting 17 charges of theft from city shops. David Peach, 35, of Nottingham Road, New Basford, was jailed for stealing £50-worth of food from the Co-op in Sherwood on January 20. The court also sentenced Peach to four months in prison, to be served concurrently, for the 16 other shop thefts. He stole steak and nappies, worth a total of £30, from Co-op in Aspley on October 24; meat from Co-op in Bulwell on October 29; £50-worth of coffee from Co-op in Sherwood on November 9; alcohol and nappies from Co-op in Sherwood on November 12; and meat from Co-op in Bulwell on November 18. Peach also took meat and other products from the Co-op in Bulwell on November 18; £146-worth of fragrances from Debenhams, Nottingham, on November 19; £498-worth of fragrances from Debenhams, on November 20; £160-worth of fragrances from Boots, in the Victoria Centre, on January 4; £106-worth of Lynx deodorant from Wilkinson, in Mansfield Road, on December 24; £32.24-worth of meat from Co-op in Sherwood on December 31; £42.36-worth of deodorant from Wilkinson, in Sherwood, on December 31; £160-worth of gift sets from Boots in Sherwood on December 13; food from Co-op in Highbury Road, Bulwell, on January 6; food from Co-op in Hucknall Road on January 21; and £24-worth of meat from Co-op in Carrington on January 13. He also admitted a charge of handling stolen goods – £49-worth of Hugo Boss fragrance belonging to the Nottingham city-centre branch of Debenhams – between November 19 and 24.
NICOLA Palmer, 29, of Mayfield Road, Carlton, has been fined £35 by magistrates in Nottingham after using a television without a licence last August. Together with the fine, she pays a victim surcharge of £15 and costs of £60. She pleaded guilty by post.
LUKE Richardson, 27, of Dunstan Street, Netherfield, was fined £200 for using a television without a licence last July. The case was proved in his absence at Nottingham Magistrates' Court. He must also pay a £15 victim surcharge and £60 costs.
LOUISE Severn, 29, of Tannin Crescent, Bulwell, has been fined £75 at Nottingham Magistrates' Court after entering a guilty plea by post to using a television without a licence between July 13 and August 14 last year. She must also pay a £15 victim surcharge and costs of £60.
MARIE Sykes, 39, of Greenacre, Edwalton, has been fined £200 for using a television without a licence between July 9 and August 10 last year. Magistrates heard the case in her absence also imposed a victim surcharge of £15 and £60 costs.
CARA Woodhouse, 23, of Eastwood Road, Kimberley, was fined £200 for using a television without a licence last August. The case was proved in her absence at Nottingham Magistrates' Court. She must also pay a £15 victim surcharge and costs of £60.
JAN Conka, 30, of Sneinton Dale, Sneinton, has pleaded guilty to driving while over the legal alcohol limit. Conka drove an Audi A6 car in Sneinton Dale on December 1 with 88 milligrams of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood – exceeding the 80 milligrams legal limit. The hearing was adjourned until April 2 to consider if there are any special reasons for not ordering an endorsement or disqualification. Conka was bailed.
AARON Biggs, 33, of Raglan Street, Eastwood, has pleaded guilty to six charges of falsely claiming benefits. He failed to inform Broxtowe Borough Council he was employed while making benefits claims on July 8, 2010, December 7, 2010, and January 14, 2011. Biggs also failed to notify the council he was in full-time employment while claiming Jobseekers' Allowance between May 27, 2010, and September 30, 2011; and housing and council tax benefits between August 21, 2011, and August 8, 2012. He also admitted a further charge of having failed to notify the Department for Work and Pensions he was working while claiming Jobseekers' Allowance between August 21, 2011, and August 8, 2012. Biggs was ordered to pay £150 costs to Broxtowe Borough Council. He was also made subject of a year-long community order which requires him to complete 200 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months.
RYAN Byfield, 27, of Pine View, Radford, pleaded guilty to assaulting a man by beating him in Nottingham on December 27. He also admitted possessing a quantity of cannabis in Nottingham on December 27, and to failing to surrender to custody at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on January 7. Sentencing was adjourned until February 8, with Byfield bailed to that date.
AARON Morley, 25, of Penrith Crescent, Aspley, has been jailed for 12 weeks after being found guilty of assaulting a woman by beating her in Top Valley on April 5 last year. Morley denied the charge. Morley pleaded guilty to a separate charge of causing criminal damage to windows at a house in Hornbeam Gardens, Bulwell, on October 25. He was jailed for two weeks, to be served consecutively. Morley also admitted that he had failed to surrender to custody at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on December 20 having been released on bail. He was jailed for two weeks, to be served concurrently.