Weekly round-up of hearings at Slough Magistrates’ Court:

March 13

Piotr Drobny, 38, of Belgrave Road, Slough. Driving over the drink-drive limit on Drake Avenue, Slough, on October 22, 2019. Fined £700. Costs £175. Disqualified from driving for 36 months. Failure without reasonable cause to surrender to custody at Berkshire Magistrates’ Court on November 8, 2019. Fined £20.

Satwander Mahrok, 35, of Sovereign Heights, Slough. Using a motor vehicle on Cippenham Lane, Slough, without third-party insurance on February 28, 2020. Fined £276. Costs £177. Disqualified from driving for six months.

March 16

Marcin Lazarz, 30, of Aintree Close, Slough. Driving over the drink-drive limit on February 29, 2020, on Bath Road, Slough. Fined £500. Costs £135. Disqualified from driving for 18 months.

Richard Secara, 25, of Diamond Road, Slough. Driving over the drink-drive limit on March 2, 2020, on Stoke Road, Slough. Fined £400. Costs £125. Disqualified from driving for 18 months.

March 17

Karim Zekari, 29, of Ladbrooke Road, Slough. Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with the community requirement of a suspended sentence order made by East Berkshire Magistrates’. Suspended sentence order varied. Costs £30.

Wayne Brooks, 51, of Warwick Avenue, Slough. Possession of a controlled drug of class B (cannabis) in Maidenhead on May 18, 2019. Community order made – must comply with a rehabilitation programme and carry out 150 hours of unpaid work over the next 12 months. Cannabis forfeited and destroyed. Failure to provide a specimen for analysis when suspected of having driven a vehicle on May 18, 2019, in Maidenhead. Community order made. Costs £855. Disqualified from driving for 20 months. Failure to surrender to custody at Berkshire Magistrates’ Court on February 17, 2020, without reasonable cause. Community order made.

Craig Cooper, 33, of Coulson Way, Burnham. Failure without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirements of a community order made by Bedfordshire Magistrates’ Court. Order varied – carry out 170 hours of unpaid work. Costs £60.

Mohammed Hussain, 20, of King Edward Street, Slough. Possession of a locking knife in Granville Avenue, Slough, on October 13, 2019. Community order made – 120 hours of unpaid work. Costs £1,040. Lock knife forfeited and destroyed. Possession of a controlled drug of class B (cannabis) in Slough on October 13, 2019. Community order made. Cannabis forfeited and destroyed.

March 19

Aaron Boyd, 34, of All Saints Avenue, Maidenhead. Assault by beating in Maidenhead on October 8, 2019. Community order made. Costs £175.

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