DAMIEN DAVIES, 31, of Barton Village Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to two breaches of a restraining order by contacting a woman via Facebook Messenger. He received a community order with 150 hours of unpaid work and up to 29 rehabilitation activity requirement days. He must pay £180 in costs and surcharge.

JACK REASON, 18, of Newlands, Kings Sutton, admitted drug driving a Seat Ibiza on Oxford Road, Bodicote, on April 15. He was over the limit for benzoylecgonine. Reason was fined £120, banned from driving for a year and must pay £133 in costs and surcharge.

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ALARIC MORAN, 50, of Westfield Road, Witney, admitted drug driving. He was caught behind the wheel of a Vauxhall Vivaro on the A415, Abingdon, on April 14 when tests showed he had benzoylecgonine in his bloodstream. Moran was fined £193, banned from driving for a year and was ordered to pay £162 in costs and surcharge.

PHILIP KNIGHT, 21, of Blackditch, Stanton Harcourt, accepted drug driving a Renault Grand Scenic on Ducklington Lane, Witney, on April 16. Tests showed he was over the limit for cannabis. He was fined £600, banned from driving for a year and was ordered to pay £325 in costs and surcharge.

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BARRY MATTHIAS, 51, of Crumps Butts, Bicester, pleaded guilty to failing to comply with sex offender notification requirements by failing to notify the police of an address at which he was staying where a child under-18 resides. The magistrates fined him £246 and ordered he pay £183 in costs and surcharge.

RYAN GASKIN, 22, of Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, admitted having eight ‘pseudo’ indecent images of a child in category C in Thame in February this year. He was fined £100, ordered to do up to 20 rehabilitation activity requirement sessions with the probation service and must pay £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

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LEE BUTCHER, 25, of Barrington Close, Witney, was found guilty of assault by beating in Oxford on February 19. He was ordered to pay £150 in compensation and must wear a GPS tag for four months. The district judge ordered he pay costs of £500 and a £114 victim surcharge.

GAVIN NEWBOLD, 44, of Crowsley Way, Sonning Common, admitted three counts of assault by beating. All were committed in Sonning Common on February 28. He received a community order with 80 hours of unpaid work, a drug rehabilitation requirement, and a requirement he attends the building better relationships programme. He was given a restraining order preventing him from being in the company of a named woman while intoxicated and he must ‘leave the home premises when asked to do so’. The order lasts for two years. The district judge also ordered he pay £199 in costs and surcharge.

OLIVER DUNN, 30, of Eastern Avenue, Oxford, pleaded guilty to assaulting a detention officer at Abingdon police station. He was fined £120.

KEVIN WALLS, 43, of no fixed address, admitted breaching a restraining order by going to Halse Water, Didcot, on August 2. He was jailed for 10 weeks and told to pay £85 in prosecution costs.

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