NORTH DORSET

STEPHEN CHRISTOPHER BROADHURST, aged 50 and of Carlton Place, Clitheroe, Lancs, admits driving a Vauxhall Astra in Bournemouth Road, Charlton Marshall on November 27 2018 with not less than 35 micrograms of cocaine per litre of blood. Fined £60, to pay a £30 surcharge. Disqualified from driving for two years. Also admits driving with not less than 800 micrograms of cocaine derivative benzoylecgonine per litre of blood. Fined £60.

BOURNEMOUTH

LAURA JANE FRANCIS, alias Laura Benn, aged 41 and of High East Street, Dorchester, convicted of assaulting a person by beating her in Dorchester on July 11 2018. Committed to prison for 12 weeks. Reason – long and persistent record of drug offending. To pay a £115 surcharge. Also admits stealing pillows and sheets worth £30 from Matalan in Weymouth on July 18 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing food worth £40.99 from Co-op in Weymouth on May 4 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing food worth £125.50 from Co-op in Dorchester on July 4 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing food worth £74.50 from Co-op in Broad Street, Lyme Regis on May 10 2018. Committed to prison for £74.50 on May 10 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing alcohol from the Co-op in Dorchester on July 11 2017. Committed to prison for two weeks concurrent. Also convicted in absence of entering the garage in St Margaret's Road, Poole on June 16 2018 and stealing a bucket containing several bottles of wine. Committed to prison for eight weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing meat worth £45.13 from the Co-op in Poole on June 16 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing meat worth £200 from the Co-op in Weymouth on May 4 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing meat worth £102.50 from Waitrose in Bournemouth on April 19 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing bottles of whiskey and vodka worth £71.99 from the Co-op in Bridport on May 10 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing meat worth £32.83 from Aldi in Bournemouth on August 16 2018. Committed to prison for two weeks concurrent. Also admits failing to surrender to custody on March 5. Committed to prison for two weeks concurrent. Also admits stealing coffee and washing tablets worth £54 from Co-op in Poole on March 7. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing a bottle of Marmalade Chase vodka worth £38.50 from John Lewis in Redlands, Poole on February 23. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing two bottles of Chase vodka worth £77 from John Lewis on February 25. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing cosmetics from Superdrug in High Street Poole on February 19. Committed to prison for two weeks consecutive. Also admits the commission of a further offence while subject to a conditional discharge order for a period of 12 months for theft, fail bail and threatening behaviour. Committed to prison for six weeks consecutive. Also admits stealing two bikes worth £1,400 in Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone on April 20. Committed to prison for two weeks concurrent. Also admits having black-handled bolt croppers for use in the course of theft. Committed to prison for two weeks concurrent. Overall length of sentence – 40 weeks.