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The latest Weston offenders sentenced in Magistrates' court

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HERE are some of the latest Weston and wider North Somerset offenders who appeared in Magistrates’ Court.

Simon Holliday, 53, of North Somerset, of Hutton, North Somerset, pleaded guilty to possessing a knife and assaulting an emergency worker by beating her in Clevedon on May 22 of this year.

Holliday has been given a total custodial sentence of four months, suspended by 12 months.

Holliday has been ordered to pay a fine of £180, £85 in costs, a surcharge of £154 and £150 in compensation.

Srihari Sounder Rajan, 35, of Weston-super-Mare, North Somerset, pleaded guilty to drink-driving along Wick Road, Lympsham, on May 30 of this year.

Rajan has been ordered to pay £620 in costs, a surcharge of £148 and a fine of £369.

Rajan is also disqualified from driving for 22 months, which can be reduced by 22 weeks if a driving course is completed.

Denis Tafa, 25, of Weston-super-Mare, was sentenced for driving along Knightstone Road in Weston-super-Mare without insurance or a licence on April 30 of this year.

Tafa has been ordered to pay £620 in costs, a surcharge of £352 and a fine of £880.

Tafa has also received eight penalty points for these offences.

Hollie Cox, 24, of Oxford, Oxfordshire, pleaded guilty to using threatening, abusive or insulting words/behaviour or disorderly behaviour with intent to cause those persons to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against them or to provoke the use of unlawful violence in Weston-super-Mare on June 6 of this year.

Cox has been ordered to pay £85 in costs, a surcharge of £26 and has been conditionally discharged for 12 months.

Judith Marufu, 39, of Weston-super-Mare, pleaded guilty to driving along Moor Lane, Weston-super-Mare on February 12 of this year without due care and attention.

Marufu also pleaded guilty to driving when the tyre depth was not at least 1.6mm.

Marufu has been ordered to pay £130 in costs, a surcharge of £200 and a fine of £500.

Marufu has also received five penalty points.

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