These are the latest cases from Blackpool Magistrates' Court - Monday, September 23, 2019
Sophie Lloyd, 26, threatening behaviour
A woman cornered a stranger in a shop and asked him to brush her hair.
Sophie Lloyd swung punches at the man as he tried to leave and kept shouting at him: “I’m Sophie Lloyd - do you know who I am?”
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Hide AdLloyd, 26, of Radcliffe Street, South Shore, pleaded guilty to threatening behaviour leading a person to believe violence would be used.
She was sentenced to a 12 months community order with 40 hours unpaid work for the community, put on a four weeks curfew from 8pm to 6am and ordered to pay £92 victims’ surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Prosecutor, Sarah Perkins, said a man was in the resort’s Cash Convertors shop on August 4, at 10.45am, when Lloyd came in and asked him to brush her hair.
The man said Lloyd was extremely drunk and when he said no she said she would rob him. When he tried to leave she kept coming towards him.
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Hide AdLloyd was on a community order at the time for a previous offence of burglary.
Robert Castle, defending, said his client wished to apologise to everyone involved.
She suffered from severe anxiety and was on medication which on this occasion she had mixed with alcohol.
Thomas Roberts, 22, drug-driving
A driver was caught with drugs in his body and in the car he crashed one afternoon on a busy road in Blackpool.
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Hide AdThomas Roberts had come to the resort for the Clubland Weekender festival at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and the drugs he had included Ketamine, Ecstasy and LSD.
Roberts, a 22-year-old groundworker, of Ffordd Beuno, Holywell, Clwyd, pleaded guilty to three offences of illegally possessing drugs, three charges of drug driving and having no insurance or licence.
He was banned from the road for 12 months, fined £653 with £85 costs and ordered to pay £65 victims’ surcharge by magistrates who ordered the destruction of the drugs.
Prosecutor, Sarah Perkins, said on May 4 about 4.30pm Roberts, who was driving a Volkswagen Polo, crashed into another car on Seasiders Way.
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Hide AdA small amount of Ketamine, Ecstasy and Acid was found in the vehicle.
A blood test showed 284 units of the cocaine derivative Benzoylecgonine in his body - 50 is the limit, 236 units of Ketamine - 20 is the limit and 60 units of Ecstasy - 10 is the limit.
Shortly before, he had been banned under the penalty points totting-up procedure and had not yet reapplied for his licence.
Steven Townley, defending, said Roberts and his girlfriend had been to a festival in the resort and he was driving her car because she was not well.
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Hide AdHe had clipped another car which was scratched but there had been no injuries.Roberts had bought the drugs to take at the festival. He admitted taking Cocaine about four days previously
and Ketamine the night before but had not taken Ecstasy and he felt fit to drive.
After the incident he had attended a drug rehabilitation programme and he had been drug free since.
He had also told his employer what had happened.
They allowed him to keep his job on the condition he passes random drug tests.
Sean Whipp, 38, drink-driving
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