• A MAN has apologised after admitting being drunk and disorderly in Clacton.

Alan Newcombe was stopped by police in Marine Parade West on September 8.

He admitted the offence at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.

He was sentenced to a two year conditional discharge which means there will be no further punishment if he is not convicted of any more offences.

He was ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge, which will be added to his outstanding court fines of £380, for previous offences.

Newcombe, 32, of no fixed abode, told magistrates it will not happen again.

  • A WOMAN has been banned from driving in her absence after she failed to appear at court.

Rosanna Withers, 24, of Clarkes Road, Harwich, was accused of failing to identify the driver of her Vauxhall Corsa guilty of an offence in Billericay on January 20.

After failing to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court she was found guilty in her absence and, because she already had points on her licence, was disqualified from driving for six months.

Withers was also fined £660 and ordered to pay £156 costs.

  • A FORMER psychotic patient has admitted causing thousands of pounds damage at a mental health centre.

David Fowodu, 18, admitted causing £2,000 damage at the St Aubyn Centre in Colchester.

Fowodu, of Oldwyk, Basildon, appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Friday following the offence on March 3.

David Bryant, prosecuting, said: “He was staying as a patient. He became agitated when he was told to wait ten minutes until going into the courtyard.

“He kicked a door, a wooden and perspex TV cabinet and kicked a hole in the wall.”

Fowodu, who was fit to plead, was given a one year conditional discharge and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation.

  • AN aerial installer fighting to make ends meet was rushing from one job to another when he drove at 88mph on the A12.

Eugene Renford, of Compton Road, in Colchester, was driving his Peugeot van at near to Margaretting on a stretch of road with a 60mph limit.

The 43-year-old admitted speeding was fined £250 and had six penalty points added to his driving licence when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.

Renford was also told to pay £90 in court costs as well as a £30 victim surcharge.

He told the court at the time of the offence, on January 23, he was working 16-hours-a-day for six days-a-week and was “rushing about to make ends meet” and “to earn some money to survive”.

  • A WARRANT has been issued after a man failed to appear at court to answer drug charges.

Ben Atkins, 20, of no fixed abode, is accused of being caught in Clacton on August 24 with cocaine and heroin.

He was due to appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court to answer charges on two counts of possession of the class A drugs on Friday.

He failed to appear.