The following cases were heard at courts in Swindon and Salisbury.
MELKSHAM: On November 2, Garreth Page, a 42-year-old man of Turners Court in Melksham, appeared before Salisbury Magistrates’ Court charged with harassment, breaching a restraining order.
Page had been accused of the crime following an incident on May 30 of this year, when he contacted the victim despite a court order being in place from October 2017.
According to court documents, Page indicated guilty at the hearing on November 2.
He was ordered to pay a fine of £300, which was reduced from £450 with his guilty plea taken into account.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and a surcharge of £120.
WARMINSTER: On November 2, Michael Banaschev of Bradley Road in Warminster, appeared before Salisbury Magistrates’ Court, charged with possession of cannabis.
The 39-year-old was alleged to have been found to have been in possession of 130g of the class B drug in Warminster on March 25 of this year.
Court filings show Banaschev indicated guilty to the charge at his hearing on November 2.
Following his plea, the court fined him £100, a figure reduced from £150 and ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the cannabis.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 to the CPS.
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WARMINSTER: November 2 also saw Joseph Nickless of Bishopstrow appear before Salisbury Magistrates’ Court charged with possession of cannabis.
The 22-year-old had been facing one count of possession of the drug following an incident in Warminster on May 10.
Court documents do not specify how much of the drug Nickless was found with.
Nickless indicated guilty at the November 2 hearing, court documents state, and was ordered to pay a fine of £230, a sum reduced from £346 with the guilty plea taken into account.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 to the CPS.
CHIPPENHAM: Scott Lee Goodwin of Lime Trees, Christian Malford, appeared before Swindon Magistrates’ Court on November 3.
The 59-year-old had been charged with speeding on the M4, when he was caught going at 59mph between junctions 18 and 19, exceeding the temporary 50mph speed limit that had been in place at the time.
Goodwin pleaded guilty at the hearing on November 3, and the court subsequently fined him £757, and added three points to his licence.
He was also ordered to pay costs of £120, and a surcharge of £303.
The defendant was not disqualified, with court documents disclosing the mitigating circumstance that the defendant regularly travels to visit an elderly relative.
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CALNE: Craig Beavan, of Braemor Road, Calne, appeared at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on November 4 for a sentencing hearing.
The hearing came around two months after the 48-year-old had been found guilty of four counts of exposing himself.
Two of these related to incidents on June 5, 2025, and August 20, 2025, both in the Toolstation in Devizes.
The remaining two counts related to incidents in Calne that took place between August and October 2023, and in May 2024, respectively.
Beavan had pleaded not guilty to the charges in May but was later found guilty.
At the hearing on November 4, Beavan was sentenced to a community order lasting until October 3, 2027.
He is required to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.
He was also ordered to pay costs to the CPS of £650, and a surcharge of £114.
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