Here is a snapshot of eight recent cases that came before the bench on June 25 and 26.
Darren Henry, 42, of Merryfield, Blackheath, appeared on June 25, 2025, and must pay £750 in compensation after pleading guilty to criminal damage to property valued under £5,000 on May 11, 2024, in London, in the Borough of Lewisham.
He damaged a car worth about £3,700.
Payments are to be made at £50 a month from August 4, 2025; no separate costs or surcharge were imposed.
Louis Smith, 38, of Beechfield Road, Erith, appeared on June 25, 2025, and must pay £150 in compensation after pleading guilty to racially aggravated intentional harassment on February 6, 2024, in Thamesmead, Greenwich.
Magistrates imposed a 12-month conditional discharge and, because of his limited means, ordered no separate costs or surcharge.
Smith must pay the compensation in £20 monthly instalments starting July 23, 2025.
Abu Massaquoi, 19, of Rowcross Street, Southwark, appeared on June 25, 2025, and must pay £282 in a fine and costs after pleading guilty to possessing four bags of cannabis, a Class B drug, on October 7, 2024, in London, in the Borough of Southwark.
The magistrates ordered the drug to be forfeited and destroyed under section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.
Abdul Rouf, 23, of Chalkenden Close, Penge, appeared on June 25, 2025, and must pay £407 in a fine, costs, and a surcharge after pleading guilty to driving a Vauxhall Corsa on Birkbeck Road, Beckenham, with 3.5 micrograms of THC in his blood—above the legal limit—on February 14, 2025.
He was banned from driving for 12 months, with payments set at £100 a month from July 25, 2025.
Danny Slattery, 46, of Lighthouse View, Greenwich, appeared on March 10, 2025, and was given a 12-month conditional discharge and banned from driving for 12 months after pleading guilty to driving a black BMW 1 Series on Manor Road, Erith, with at least 2.4 micrograms of THC in his blood—above the legal limit—on August 11, 2024.
He must pay a £26 victim-services surcharge, to be settled in £20 monthly instalments starting July 23, 2025.
Andrew Simpson, 59, of Nuding Close, Ladywell, appeared on June 26, 2025, and must pay £150 compensation after pleading guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm on January 30, 2025, in Lewisham.
Magistrates imposed a 24-week prison sentence suspended for 12 months and ordered him not to contact the victim for a year.
No costs or victim-surcharge were imposed because compensation takes priority, with payments set at £20 a month from July 26, 2025.
Shane Lawrie, 43, of Westhorne Avenue, Eltham, appeared on June 26, 2025, and was fined £80 after pleading guilty to breaching a criminal behaviour order in Lewisham on June 24, 2025.
The order, made by Bexley Magistrates’ Court on August 30, 2024, barred him from having drug paraphernalia; police found items including cannabis grinders, crack pipes, and syringes.
