Breaking curfews and damaging windows - the latest South Shields court cases

The following cases from the South Shields area were dealt with by South Northumbria Magistrates’ Court, which sits at both South Shields and Sunderland:
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David Terence Potts, 31, of Collingwood Street, Hebburn, was fined £22 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs after admitting possessing diazepam on July 5.

David Kirsop, 34, of Pickering Court, Jarrow, was ordered to pay £60 costs after he admitted breaching a community order by breaking a curfew.

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Peter McShane, 33, of Belgrave Terrace, South Shields, was ordered to pay £60 costs after he admitted breaching a community order by failing to attend a scheduled appointment on July 30.

The cases were dealt with by South Northumbria Magistrates' Court, which sits at South Shields, above, and Sunderland.The cases were dealt with by South Northumbria Magistrates' Court, which sits at South Shields, above, and Sunderland.
The cases were dealt with by South Northumbria Magistrates' Court, which sits at South Shields, above, and Sunderland.

George Edward Dixon, 35, of Edhill Avenue, South Shields, was fined £40 and ordered to pay £50 compensation, a £34 victim surcharge and £85 costs after admitting assaulting a woman on June 17.

David Leon Graham, 55, of Western Approach, South Shields, received a six-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £150 costs after he was convicted of attempting to steal a cycle on November 21 last year.

Paul Limbet Kennedy, 34, of Beach Road, South Shields, was fined £80 and ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge and £85 costs after admitting breaching a restraining order by visiting a named address and breaching the terms of a suspended sentence by committing a further offence on October 23.

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Adam Kenneth Purcell, 18, of Epinay Walk Jarrow, was ordered to pay £1,300 compensation after he admitted two charges of causing criminal damage to windows on September 15 and one count of possessing cannabis on September 16.

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