ARCHIE DIX, 21, of Shepherds Hill, Oxford, pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman by beating in Wantage on June 21 last year. He was fined £162 and must pay £250 in costs and a £65 victim surcharge.

JACK ARNOLD, 30, of Lock Crescent, Kidlington, admitted failing to provide a specimen of breath for analysis at Abingdon Police Station last July, having been stopped on suspicion of committing a roads traffic offence. He was banned from driving for a year-and-a-half and ordered to do 100 hours of unpaid work. The judge also ordered he pay £414 in costs and surcharge.

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ANDREW ADAMS, 35, of HMP Erlestoke, pleaded guilty to stealing a wallet and bankcards in Cowley last September and fraudulently using another’s bank card to buy scratchcards and cigarettes. He received a further eight weeks’ imprisonment and was ordered to pay £150 in compensation.

GARY FLYNN, 43, of Wincey View, Great Haseley, pleaded guilty to assaulting a police constable in Benson in January. He was fined £100 and ordered to pay £40 in compensation.

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MARTYN DAVENPORT, 29, of Asquith Road, Oxford, pleaded guilty to drug driving a Vauxhall Vivaro on Oxford Road, Kidlington, last December. Blood tests showed he was over the legal limit for cannabis. He was fined £300, banned from the roads for three years and ordered to pay £205 in costs and surcharge.

BENJAMIN WYATT, 40, of Middleton Road, Banbury, admitted breaching his sex offender notification requirements by failing to attend a police station every seven days to register that – at the time – he was of no fixed address. He received a six month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

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RICHARD BAILEY, 48, of Heron Drive, Bicester, admitted drink driving on the A41 near Bicester. Tests showed he had 66mcgs of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcgs. He was fined £461, banned from the roads for 18 months and must pay a £184 victim surcharge and £85 in costs.

JOSHUA TAYLOR, 31, of Station Road, Brize Norton, pleaded guilty to driving a Mitsubishi L200 on Station Road, Brize Norton, last December without a valid licence and while over the drug-driving limit for benzoylecgonine. He was fined £281, banned from driving for a year and ordered to pay £450 in costs as he entered his guilty plea late. Taylor was also ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge.

THOMAS TEW, 21, of Mansfield Gardens, Littlemore, admitted possession of cocaine and cannabis in Oxford on New Year’s Day. He was fined £200, the drugs were forfeit to the police and he must pay £74 in costs and surcharge.

BENJAMIN THOMAS, 29, of Gainsborough Crescent, Henley, admitted affray, possession of ‘various knives’ in Wood Lane Close, damaging two cars and windows, and assault by beating. All the offences were committed in Sonning Common on January 30. He received four months’ imprisonment suspended for 18 months, must wear an alcohol abstinence monitoring tag for 90 days and do the thinking skills course with the probation service. The magistrates ordered he pay more than £2,000 in compensation.

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