Serial bike thief and football hooligan among those sentenced in Cornwall courts

It’s the weekend and so time to take a look at the cases that have recently come before magistrates in Cornwall. Everyone who has been charged with a crime, from the most minor to the most serious, initially appears before magistrates.

The most serious cases are then sent to the crown court. If a defendant pleads guilty, they could be sentenced immediately or the matter could be referred for a pre-sentence report. If they deny the charges against them, the case will be adjourned for trial.

Courts are open to anyone, and our reporters participate just like any other member of the public. Since most people have jobs and cannot spend time in court, the media has always acted as the eyes and ears of the public to ensure that justice is seen to be done.

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Here’s who was recently sentenced at Bodmin and Truro Magistrates’ Court.

Matthew Bone

Age: 39

The Courtyard & Penmount, Truro

On February 8, at Truro, drove a motor vehicle, namely on a road, namely the A39 at Carnon Downs, while disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence. On the same date and place, he drove a vehicle without insurance.

Fine: £500. Penalty points for this offence: 8.

Kyle Rhodes

Age: 31

Rose Row, Redruth

On 6 June 2023 at Camborne you took a course of conduct which amounted to harassing a woman and which you knew or ought to have known amounted to harassing her by calling and texting her excessive. On the same day and place he assaulted a woman by beating her.

Community Order: 26 days. Rehabilitation activity for building better relationships: 15 days. Unpaid work: 80 hours. Restraining order not to contact your victim directly or indirectly, except through the Family Court or a lawyer for the purpose of contacting the children. Restraining order for two years not to enter an address in Penzance and another in Redruth.

Philip Madden

Age: 55

Croft Farm Holiday Park, Bodmin

On or about 8 May, at Luxulyan, St Austell, you were in charge of a motor vehicle in the area near Croft Farm, Luxulyan, after consuming so much alcohol that the proportion of alcohol in your breath, namely 124 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 milliliters of breath, exceeded the prescribed limit.

Community order. Unpaid work: 200 hours. Penalty points for this offence: 10.

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Martin Wheeler

Age: 34

Tolgarrick Road, Camborne

Between 19 June 2023 and 21 September 2023, at Camborne, you engaged in conduct which amounted to the harassment of a woman and which you knew or ought to have known amounted to her harassment in that between those two dates you sent a large number of unwanted messages, some of which were abusive and threatening, and made a number of phone calls.

No bail warrant issued.

Harry Martin

Age: 30

Redbrook Road, Camborne

On January 18, 2023, at Redruth, when he was suspected of driving a vehicle and asked to provide a sample of urine for a laboratory test under section 7 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 in the course of an investigation to establish whether you have committed an offense under section 3A, 4, 5 or 5A hereof, failed without reasonable excuse to do so.

On the same day and place, he used a motor vehicle on United Road without having any motor insurance and also without a valid driving licence.

Gary Thornton

Age: 41

Mount Pleasant Road, Camborne

On the 27th of May, at Camborne, dealt with a motor vehicle or any thing carried in or on it, with intent as a felony to steal the said motor vehicle or any part thereof or anything carried in or on the said motor vehicle or an offense under section 12(1) of the Theft Act 1968 should be committed.

On the same day he stole a Samsung mobile phone, a quantity of cash, a quantity of foreign currency from a car belonging to Kornelijus Zujevas. On May 30, in Camborne, possessed a quantity of cannabis, a controlled drug of class B, in contravention of section 5(1) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. On the same day, also stole from the car same man £1. cash.

Also on the same day, in Camborne, trespassed into a garage in Westborne Road with intent to steal. Remanded on conditional bail to appear at the Magistrates Court on July 26 for sentencing.

Paul Yendle

Age: 57

Fuller Road, Perranporth

On February 11, 2023, at Plymouth Railway Station, you used or threatened unlawful violence towards other persons, and your conduct was such as would cause a person of reasonable fortitude present at the scene to fear for his personal safety.

Community order. Rehabilitation activity: 15 days. Football banning order: three years. Fine: 800.

You can read our full story here.

John Sallis

Age: 38

No fixed abode

On 1 May 2024, at Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, stole a pedal bicycle to the value of €900 belonging to a woman. On the same day, also in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, he stole a pedal bicycle worth €980 belonging to a man. The next day, in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, he stole a pedal bicycle worth £150 belonging to another man.

On 7 May, at Peterborough, being a person in police custody, arrested for and at the time the demand was made, was not charged with an offense of failing without reasonable grounds to supply a non-intimate sample for the purpose of to establish whether you had a Class ‘A’ drug listed in Schedule 6 to the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000, failed without reasonable cause to provide a non-intimate sample for the purpose of determining whether you had a Class ‘A’ drug ” specified in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 in your body.

Period of imprisonment: 14 weeks.

Jon Turner

Age: 33

No fixed abode

On 19 January 2024, at Illogan, used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior towards a woman with intent to cause that person to believe that immediate unlawful violence would be used against her by any person or to cause the use of unlawful violence by her by which the person was likely to believe that such violence would be used or that such violence was likely to be provoked.

On November 21, 2023, at Illogan, without lawful excuse, damaged a vehicle of unknown value belonging to a female intending to destroy or damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be destroyed or damaged .

On January 19, 2024, at Illogan, without lawful excuse, damaged a vehicle of unknown value belonging to a female intending to destroy or damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be destroyed or damaged .

He was remanded in custody until July 23 for sentencing.

Our summaries depend on the list of results sent by the courts, so it is possible that some convicted persons are missing from the weekly round.