The latest cases to be heard at Harrogate Magistrates Court between April 15 and April 22

The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on April 17:

Businessman Jonathan Darcy, 48, of Burns Way, Harrogate, was fined £230 and had three points added to his licence for speeding at The Stray, but there was no driving ban under the totting-up procedure due to mitigating circumstances. He was driving a Tesla which was travelling above 30mph on the A6040 on July 24 last year. Darcy, the director of a commercial fit-out company, was ordered to pay £90 prosecution costs and a £92 statutory surcharge, but the court didn’t impose a driving disqualification because he needed his car for work, and the company and its employees would be affected.

The following were heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on April 19:

Leigh Ross, 37, of Prospect Place, Harrogate, was ordered to carry out 30 hours of unpaid work for breaching his post-custodial supervision requirements. He failed to comply with the order following a period of imprisonment in that he was not “of good behaviour and undermined the rehabilitative purposes of the supervision period”. Ross received a warning letter in January and March for being aggressive in a probation-office appointment and failed to attend a monitoring appointment in February without reasonable excuse.

Jack Whitehouse, 33, of Coniston Road, Harrogate, was fined £369 for failing to comply with the requirements of a community order. He breached the order, imposed in May 2022, by skipping two unpaid-work sessions in August 2023 and March this year. He was ordered to pay £85 costs. The court decreed that the order should continue.

The following was heard at North Yorkshire Magistrates’ Court on April 22:

Graham Geoffrey Walker, 62, of Ralph Garth, Tockwith, received a 17-month motoring ban after he was caught driving while twice the legal alcohol limit. He was stopped on the A165 at Leven on March 17, 2020, when a drink-drive test revealed he had 70mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal alcohol limit is 35mcg. Walker was fined £1,038 and ordered to pay a statutory surcharge of £104. There were no separate penalties for driving without insurance and a licence and possessing cannabis.