A Lithgow man will serve six months in jail after being found guilty of common assault and breaching an apprehended violence order in Lithgow Local Court on March 15.
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Phillip Raymond Thompson, 60, was sentenced after twice breaching the conditions of an apprehended violence order (AVO) taken out against him.
The initial charge of common assault was laid following an incident on January 12 this year. He was released on bail and an AVO was taken out against him, which he was reported to have breached on January 17 and January 28.
His maximum jail term, which began after his arrest on January 28, is 12 months.
Choking
An Oberon man who was filmed choking his girlfriend has been fined $500, placed on a two year Community Corrections Order and ordered to undertake 100 hours of community service.
The 21-year-old, who has since relocated, was charged with assault and intentionally choking a person after an incident at Oberon.
The court heard the young man's girlfriend filmed an argument, during which he picked up his girlfriend's daughter by the back of the shirt and used this grip to carry her from the room as she cried in pain and distress. This was the basis for the assault charge.
He then grabbed his girlfriend from behind and wrapped his arm around her throat, lifting her up for a few seconds so she could not breathe. She fled the house with the child.
Drink-driving
Rydal man Trevor Alan Keir was found guilty of driving with a mid-range blood alcohol level in Lithgow Local Court on March 14.
The 63-year-old was pulled over driving on the Old Western Road, Rydal on February 3 and registered a breath analysis showed he was driving with a blood alcohol of 0.142.
He was fined $770 and disqualified for three months. He was ordered to install an interlock device for 12 months, which requires a breath test to start the car.
A Katoomba man was fined $1100 and disqualified from driving for three months for low range drink driving. It was not his first offence.
Paul Anthony Barker, 42, was pulled over at 12.25am on February 17 at Lithgow.
He has also been ordered to install an interlock device for 12 months.
A surprise, all right
A Lithgow man who had hidden two small bags of methylamphetamine inside a Kinder Surprise egg was found guilty of possessing a prohibited drug in Lithgow Local Court on March 14.
Brett Norman Thorpe, 38, was pulled over by police after a patrol saw him disobeying the 'left turn only' sign at the intersection of Tweed Street and the Great Western Highway.
The patrol followed him into a car park on Waratah Lane. He was stopped and searched. Inside his bum bag, police found a Kinder Surprise which contained two clear resealable bags of methylampetamine. There was also a folded piece of foil inside containing cannabis seeds and some cannabis.
The man was fined $350 for each of three counts of possession.
Stolen fuel
A Colyton man was fined $500 for dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by failing to pay for fuel at Lithgow.
According to facts presented to the court by police, Andrew Lam, 25, stopped at the BP service station in Lithgow on October 12 last year and pumped $80.43 in fuel. He made no attempt to pay.
Drive suspended
Lithgow man David Patrick O'Brien, 41, was fined $750 and disqualified for one month for driving while suspended.
He was pulled over for a random breath test in the McDonald's car park on December 7, 2018 and it was found his licence had been suspended in October.
Drug possession
A Lithgow man has been placed on a nine-month community corrections order and fined $500 for driving having never held a licence and drug possession.
Michael Furner-Connor, 19, was charged after he was pulled over for an alleged speeding offence on the Great Western Highway on December 5. A small amount of methylamphetamine was found during a search of the car.
