Assault, no insurance and excess alcohol – the latest Sunderland court cases

Farhat Nisa Dunne, 48, of Hopewood Park Hospital, Stockton Road was given a year’s conditional discharge and ordered to pay £500 compensation for five offences of assaulting an emergency worker.

Lisa Elliott, 50, of Highfield Rise, Chester-le-Street, was fined £91 with three penalty points for speeding.

Charles William Hill, 59, of Bloom Lane, Houghton, was fined £66 with three penalty points for speeding.

Jordan Nicholson, 18, of Attwood Grove, was fined £162 and ordered to pay £50 compensation for using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour.

Arron Straughair, 31, of Brickgarth, Easington Lane, was fined £180 and banned from driving for six months for failure to identify a driver.

Peter George Norton, 43, of Tennyson Avenue, Boldon, was given a year’s conditional discharge with six penalty points for using a vehicle without insurance.

George William Otigbah, 32, of General Graham Street, was fined £186 and banned from driving for 20 months for driving with excess alcohol.

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