WEEKLY round up of hearings at Wycombe Magistrates’ Court. 

March 19:

MASON MISQUITTA, 19, of High Street, Whaddon, found guilty of being the driver of a vehicle on August 18 last year in Wolverton Road when an accident occurred whereby damage occurred to another vehicle and he failed to stop. He was also guilty of driving without due care and attention in Milton Keynes on the same day. He was given 100 hours of unpaid work and his licence was endorsed with eight points. There was also a £110 court cost to be paid as well as a victim surcharge of £100.

IAIN BARROW, 63, of Pinner Road, Northwood, Hillingdon, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention in Woodside Road, Amersham, on June 11, 2021. He was disqualified from driving for six months, fined £162 and had seven penalty points added to his licence. There was also an order for £300 in court costs and a victim surcharge of £34.

MARK HUGGINS, 40, of Baldwin Road, Burnham, was found guilty of driving without due care and attention on Bourne End Road, Hedsor on September 24 last year. He was fined £666 and his licence was endorsed with nine points. There was also an order for £110 in court costs and a victim surcharge of £266.

RANDOLPH DAVIS, 18, of Bowerdean Road, High Wycombe, was found guilty of possessing a quantity of cannabis in High Wycombe on January 13, 2021. He was given a period of conditional discharge for 12 months and an order was made for the drugs to be forfeited and destroyed. There was also a court cost of £85 and a victim surcharge of £22.

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It is established in the UK that court cases should be heard in public. This principle of open justice is acclaimed on a number of grounds: as a safeguard against judicial error and as a deterrent to perjury, to assist the deterrent function of trials and to permit the revelation of matters of public interest. Costs include victim surcharge and courts charges.