A round-up of cases before magistrates in north Essex over the past week includes a man riding an e-scooter without insurance.

Other results included a fine handed out for calling the emergency services when banned and a ban imposed for driving while over the legal alchol limit.

  • A man has been ordered to complete unpaid work after admitting his behaviour caused a police officer distress in Colchester.

Reece Bishop, 24, of Greenfinch End in Colchester, admitted three offences at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court.

He admitted causing a police officer harassment, alarm or distress in Colchester on July 8 this year.

He also admitted damaging a police holding cell, wasting police time by making a false report and using threatening or abusive words and behaviour on the same date.

Bishop was made subject of a community order and must complete 60 hours unpaid work.

He was ordered to pay £100 compensation.

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  • A man who was caught behind the wheel while over the drink drive limit has been banned from the roads for nearly two years.

David Hinchcliffe, 50, of The Strood, Peldon, was found to have 89mcg of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when he was stopped on the A127 in Basildon on June 7.

The legal limit is 35mcg.

Hinchcliffe was handed a 22 month driving ban at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court.

He was also fined £461 and ordered to pay £105 prosecution charges and a £47 victim fund charge.

  • A man who rode an e-scooter without a licence or insurance has been fined £150 and given six penalty points.

Samuel Beddoes, 20, of Canwick Grove, Colchester, admitted riding the e-scooter on Scarletts Road on June 19 this year while he did not have insurance or a licence.

He also admitted failing to stop for a police officer when required to do so and ignoring a road traffic sign.

At Colchester Magistrates’ Court he was given six penalty points, fined £150 and ordered to pay a £105 prosecution cost and a £34 victim fund charge.

  • A man who drove a car while above the drug drive limit has been banned from the roads for 12 months.

Liam Green, 22, of Willow Road, Dunmow, was stopped by police in The Grove in Clacton on December 16 last year.

Green was found to have 3.1mcg of Delta-9-tetrahydroc in his system above the legal limit of 2mcg.

At Colchester Magistrates’ Court he was fined £750, banned from driving for 12 months and ordered to pay £105 prosecution costs and a £75 victim services charge.

  • A MAN who was banned from calling the emergency services has been fined after ignoring the order.

David Pinner, 65, of Foster Road, Parkeston, admitted contacting 999 or 101 when he had no genuine emergency or non-emergency to report on December 22 last year.

At Colchester Magistrates’ Court Pinner was fined £120 and ordered to pay prosecution costs of £105 and a victim services charge of £34.

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