Defendants sentenced recently by magistrates outside York

Dale Carlyle, 33, of Fifth Avenue, Tang Hall, pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.

Newton Aycliffe magistrates gave him a 12-month community order with 15 days’ rehabilitative activities. He was made subject to a five-year restraining order aimed at protecting the woman from him and ordered to pay £300 prosecution costs.

Romeo Ngjela, 57, of Kexby Avenue, off Green Dyke Avenue, York, was convicted in his absence of jumping a red light and using a car without insurance in Oadby, Leicester.  He was banned from driving for 12 months at Loughborough Magistrates Court, fined £660 and ordered to pay a £264 statutory surcharge and £120 prosecution costs.

Two defendants were sentenced by Harrogate magistrates.

Abdulhafiz Abdu, 24, of Peterhill Drive, Clifton, was convicted in his absence of driving on Queen’s Staith without insurance and without a licence and driving a car without a valid MOT certificate. He was fined £660, ordered to pay £120 prosecution costs and banned from driving for six months.

Magdeline Mukoyi, 49, of Eastfield Walk, Tadcaster, was banned from driving for six months after she pleaded guilty to driving without a licence.  She was fined £40 and ordered to pay a £16 statutory surcharge.