Our regular round up of people who have appeared in Bolton's courts.

Burglar took £1,500 of items in shop raid

A BURGLAR stole £1,500 of items from a Heaton shop. 

David McGrail took the haul from Metal Solutions in Sofa Street on August 7. 

McGrail, of Chorley Old Road, was ordered to pay £895 in costs when he was sentenced by magistrates on August 27.

Thirty-nine-year-old McGrail was also made subject to a community order.

Bike thief must wear an electronic tag

A BURGLAR who stole £2,300 of motorbikes in Horwich must wear an electronic tag for the next three months. 

Mark Bates, aged 23, broke into the garage in Catherine Street East on June 27. 

Having admitted guilt at an earlier hearing, magistrates imposed a three-month curfew on Bates, of Thorpe Street, Bolton. 

At an August 27 sentencing hearing, he was also told to pay £325 in costs.

Careless driver fined

AN ASTLEY Bridge motorist has been fined £400 for driving without due care and attention. 

Andrew Wareing pleaded guilty to the January 6 offence in St Helens Road at Bolton Magistrates’ Court on August 27. 

Wareing, aged 24, of Waterside Gardens, was also told to pay £125 in costs. 

Man assaulted woman and stole her bank card 

A TONGE Moor man has been fined and given a restraining order after he assaulted a woman and stole her bank card.

Michael Chiappinelli, aged 25, carried out the attack and stole £120 altogether on July 31. 

At a sentencing hearing on August 27, magistrates imposed a 90-day community order and ordered him to pay £550 in costs and a £20 fine.

Chiappinelli, of Tonge Moor Road, admitted theft and assault at an earlier hearing. 

He is banned from visiting a certain address for the next 12 months.

Thief took TV

A MAN who stole a television was ordered to pay £99 in compensation to Asda.

John Lowe took the set from a Bolton branch on February 12. 

At Bolton Magistrates’ Court on August 27, the 27-year-old, of no fixed abode, was ordered to pay £334 in costs too.

Drink driver fined by court

A DRINK driver has been fined £585 and banned from holding a licence for 20 months.

At Bolton Magistrates Court Robin McLoughlin, aged 34, of Beaumont Court, Victoria Road, Bolton, pleaded guilty to having drunk more than double the legal level of alcohol before driving a Vauxhall Astra on Derby Street on August 9.

He also admitted speeding, failing to stop for police, driving through a red traffic signal, having no insurance and failing to surrender to court.

In addition to the fine McLoughlin was ordered to pay a £44 victim surcharge, £85 prosecution costs and a £150 criminal courts charge.

Purse thief jailed

A THIEF who stole a purse has been jailed by Bolton magistrates for 16 weeks.

Miroslav Lakatos, aged 26, of Gibraltar Street, Bolton, admitted taking the Radley purse, worth £65, from a woman in Bolton as she pushed her twins in a pram on August 4.

Lakatos, who was already on licence from prison for other offences, pleaded guilty to the theft.

The court also ordered him to pay a £180 criminal courts charge and pay his victim £65 compensation.

Assault man fined

MAGISTRATES have fined a man £70 after he pleaded guilty to assault.

Mohammed Yousaf, aged 46, of Walker Avenue, Bolton, committed the offence on August 17 when he beat Wasim Akhtar.

The court ordered Yousaf to pay £100 compensation, £85 prosecution costs, a £150 criminal courts charge and a £20 victim surcharge.

Magistrates also made a restraining order banning him from contacting his victim.

Suspended jail sentence for ignoring order

MAGISTRATES have given a man an 18 week suspended prison sentence after he repeatedly ignored a restraining order banning him from contacting a woman.

The court heard that the order was made on August 10 but just four days later Michael Hagan, aged 50, of Brocksby Chase, Halliwell, contacted the woman.

He repeated the breach on four further occasions over the next 11 days.

Hagan was sentenced to 18 weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay a £180 criminal courts charge, £85 prosecution costs and an £80 victim surcharge.