THESE people were in court for offences committed in and around Salisbury.

Thomas Nelson, 40, of Woodside Road, pleaded guilty to using threatening/abusive words/behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress to Amy Nelson in Alderbury on October 2, 2022.

Nelson was handed a community order at Salisbury Magistrates Court on September 11 which ends on September 10, 2024.

This came with a restraining order prohibiting him from going to two addresses Spiders Island or contacting Amy Neslon.

Nelson had been on a qualifying curfew for almost 160 days which the court accepted as the punitive element of his sentence. He was ordered to pay £300 costs.

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Jamie Cooper, of Pinewood Way, pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon in Brown Street Car Park on July 31.

The 19-year-old was seen loading a catapult and firing into a tree at pigeons in the middle of the car park.

Paul Jones, defending, said it was "young foolishness" that got Cooper into trouble.

Magistrates sentenced Cooper to a 12-month community order during which he must complete 40 hours of unpaid work and pay £199. Also, his catapult was destroyed.

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Steven Lovelock, 62, of London Road, had a quantity of cannabis in his possession in Salisbury on July 1.

Magistrates ordered Lovelock to pay a total of £56 and the drugs were forfeited and destroyed.

Korie Lennard, 25, of Kingsway House in Wilton, pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine in Warminster on March 17.

He had to pay a £120 fine, costs of £85 and the drugs were forfeited and destroyed.

Daniel Sheehan, 33, of Kelsey Road, drove his Volkswagen Golf into a central reservation on London Road just before midnight on August 11.

Police officers who attended could smell alcohol on Sheehan and a roadside test found 85 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath, 50 over the legal limit.

Sheehan told Salisbury Magistrates Court that he relies on his driving licence to work as a seasonal mobile caterer and losing it will affect him "quite badly".

He was disqualified from driving for 20 months and ordered to pay £471.

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George Page, 29, of Oxfordshire, drove his Skoda Superb along the A303 Fonthill Down while over the alcohol limit on May 30.

The proportion of alcohol in his breath was 49 microgrammes in 100 millilitres of breath, 14 over the legal limit.

Page was disqualified from driving for 12 months and must pay £730 to the court.