Latest update on criminal cases at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court

Antony Blackham, 54, of Rosewood Gardens, Clanfield, admitted sexual communication with a child under 16 between January 9 in 2018 and February 9 the same year.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 20 days' rehabilitation activities and 40 hours' unpaid work.

Blackham must sign the sex offenders' register for five years and pay an £85 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.

Kieran Abrams, 25, of Braemar Road, Gosport, admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath on January 1 in Cambridge Road, Gosport.

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Portsmouth Magistrates' Court. Picture: Chris Moorhouse | JPIMedia

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 25 days' rehabilitation activities.

He must pay a £90 victim surcharge and £50 costs.

He was banned from driving for 16 months.

He admitted breaching a conditional discharge for criminal damage and two charges of resisting a police officer.

Abrams admitted having cocaine, a class A drug, on August 12 last year in Fareham.

The drug must be forfeited and destroyed.

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Harry Austin, 35, of Newcome Road, Fratton, admitted having cannabis, a class B drug, in Portsmouth on July 29 last year.

Magistrates fined him £107 with a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

The drug must be destroyed.

Paul Burnett, 24, of Keith Close, Gosport, admitted having diamorphine, a class A drug, in Fareham, on August 12 last year.

He was fined £120 with a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs. The drug must be destroyed.

Jordan Hernandez, 29, of Foster Road, Landport, admitted assaulting an emergency worker, a police officer, on November 7 last year.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge with £50 compensation to pay.

Martin McDonagh, 21, of London Road, High Wycombe, admitted stealing No 7 creams worth £154 from Boots in Portsmouth on January 29.

He admitted fraud by false representation by trying to return stolen goods the same day.

Magistrates fined him £80 with a £32 victim surcharge and £85 costs.

He must pay £77 compensation.

Brandon Newman, 23, of Suffolk Road, Eastney, admitted, having a blade or point, garden shears, in public in Portsmouth on August 23.

Magistrates imposed a 12-month community order with 10 days' rehabilitation activities and 100 hours' unpaid work.

He must pay a £90 victim surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.

The shears must be destroyed.

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