Luke Peter Samuel Clapham, 26, was found guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, intentionally damaging property and contravening the terms of an apprehended violence order. 

The assault occurred in Lithgow on July 22.

The court heard that, during an argument, he punched his former partner repeatedly before dragging her across the floor and kicking her in the head. He then broke holes in the home’s wall and window. The woman suffered bruising and swelling across her face, neck, shoulders and back and was taken by ambulance to Lithgow Hospital for treatment. 

He will serve a minimum sentence of six months.  

A Portland man will serve at least four months in jail after pleading guilty to stalking and intimidation, common assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm charges. 

The court heard Geoffrey Paul Bailey, 39, punched a family member in the face before pouring mower petrol on her and threatening to come back and set her alight in her sleep. 

The victim left the home and went to a friend’s house to call the police. 

He was sentenced to a maximum 12 month term in Lithgow Local Court on September 14. 

A Portland man served two months in jail for resisting a police officer in the execution of their duty. 

Mark Lawrence Muldoon, 34, pleaded guilty to the charge as well as stalking and intimidation in Lithgow Local Court on September 14. 

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He was placed on a good behaviour bond for the intimidation offence. 

The man had been reported to police for allegedly threatening a staff member at Foodworks, Portland, after he was refused service due to intoxication on March 13. It was as he was being brought in for questioning over that offence that he resisted officers. He was sentenced to time served from March 15 to May 14.

A Lithgow man has been ordered to be on good behaviour after he pleaded guilty to a larceny charge in Lithgow Local Court on September 13. 

Graeme Ian Kinney, 43, was found guilty of taking a white bathtub, kitchen benchtop and oven door from a property at Blackmans Flat on June 22. 

He was also fined $250 for unlawfully entering a property. 

The owner of the goods was dismantling the house on the Castlereagh Highway property in order to relocate it. The goods taken were in the yard of the premises as most of the home had been taken apart. 

Between 4.50pm-6.30pm Kinney and another man entered the property wearing headlamps and loaded the goods into a truck. The owner drove past at 6.30pm and spotted the headlamps. The two men left the property in the truck and the owner contacted police, providing the registration number of the vehicle. 

Kinney was also fined a total of $600 for displaying a misleading number plate and allowing his unregistered, uninsured vehicle to be driven on the road. The charges related to an incident on July 29.  

Lithgow man Michael Luke Sharp, 24, was fined $600 for flooding a cell at Lithgow Police Station and littering it with wet toilet paper. He has been ordered to pay $350 in compensation in cleaning costs. 

Sharp was arrested on December 30 last year after refusing to leave a Main Street pub and becoming abusive towards police.

In the police statement to court, it was reported Sharp blocked the cell toilet with a toilet roll and continuously flushed until water ran out onto the floor of the cell itself and spilled outside. He also threw wet toilet paper onto the ceiling. 

For behaving in an offensive manner in public, he was fined $300.

A Casula man was found guilty of two counts of possessing a prohibited drug at Lithgow Local Court on September 13. 

Jason Van Zanten, 33, of Casula was found in possession of 0.15g methylamphetamine and eight buprenorphine strips at Lithgow Correctional Centre on June 23. 

He declared the items when stopped by security staff on arrival at the jail and was told his vehicle would be searched. 

He was fined a total of $1000. 

Wallerawang man Michael Paul Allen Williams, 39, was fined $300 for possessing a prohibited plant, a 30cm cannabis plant, which was discovered during a police search on April 13.