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January 22, 2017, 9:31 pm

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12.30pm UPDATE: Paul Charlton has arrived at court but has been told that his sentencing will take place in the court's afternoon session, after 2pm.Paul Charlton, also known as the Pigeon Man, is due to appear back at Bath Magistrates' Court today (January 23).He is to be sentenced after having been convicted of three charges of failing to comply with a community protection notice ordering him to stop feeding pigeons.Charlton, 42, is a well known character who feeds the pigeons near Bath...

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January 23, 2017, 8:33 am

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Bath's Pigeon Man has appeared in court to learn his punishment after continuing to feed pigeons despite a community protection notice ordering him to stop. Paul Charlton was fined £300 and ordered to pay £300 costs and a victim surcharge £30 after being convicted of three charges of failing to comply with the community order.The defendant was also handed a criminal behaviour order which will last for two years. In those two years the pigeon man must not provide food for...

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January 24, 2017, 3:01 am

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A Bath man has been jailed after headbutting a woman in a city centre nightclub.Callum Mark Mullin, of Snow Hill, assaulted the woman while they were in a queue to collect their coats at Po Na Na in November. The 21-year-old admitted the offence when he appeared at Bath Magistrates Court yesterday (Monday, January 24). It was Mullin's fourth offence of the year: he was given a suspended prison sentence in July when he threatened to kill an off-duty policewoman at Batheaston Toll Bridge....

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January 24, 2017, 6:23 am

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A man has been charged with burglary at a house in Bath and will stand trial next month.Paul Matthews, aged 42, of Gloucester Road, appeared at Bath Magistrates Court on Monday (January 23). Police said they were called to a property in Belgrave Road just after 7am on Monday by a householder who had disturbed someone in their home. The intruder made off and the householder found a number of items were missing, Avon and Somerset police said. Bath LIVE: Latest crime, education, travel and news...

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January 25, 2017, 4:07 am

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Employees of the cafes facing Pigeon Man's traditional spot have given their views on his antics.Paul Charlton is famed for balancing pigeons on his arms, shoulders and head under the columns outside Bath Abbey, and giving members of the public grain to feed them.This act has been his "job" for the last four years. "It is how I pay my rent and my bills. I make a living out of it," he said.However, Charlton, of no fixed address, was given a community protection notice and told...

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January 26, 2017, 8:11 am

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A man has appeared at Bath Magistrates Court to deny a charge of racially aggravated harassment.Shaun Stephen Flook, aged 47, of Kingsway Avenue in Bristol, appeared before magistrates on Monday (January 23).He is charged with causing racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment on August 18 at Penn Lea Road. It is alleged that Flook used threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards another man and that the offence was racially aggravated. Bath LIVE: Park and ride...

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January 31, 2017, 5:44 am

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A Bath man was due to appear in court today facing burglary charges after three properties were allegedly targeted in the same street in Twerton. Joshua McGauley, 33, faces one charge of aggravated burglary at a property in Dominion Road and a second charge of attempted burglary at two neighbouring properties. Read more: Burger & Lobster announce closure of Milsom Place restaurant and Confessional Bar in Bath The alleged crimes took place on January 14. McGauley, of Burlington Street...

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February 1, 2017, 3:25 am

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A Bathampton pensioner who has been charged with illegally damaging land belonging to her neighbours will stand trial before a District Judge in April.Valerie Vivian, 70, has been accused of damaging a strip of land off Miller Walk belonging to Priors Walk Management on October 29.She denied the allegation before Bath Magistrates' Court on Wednesday, February 1.On December 18, the defendant was charged with damaging land held collectively by all homeowners in Miller Walk.Read more: WATCH: Curo's...

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February 1, 2017, 12:45 pm

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A man who launched a foul-mouthed drunken tirade through the letterbox of a young family he'd never met before has been given a community order.Daniel Gyori, aged 32, was under the influence of "far too much alcohol" when he held a lit cigarette lighter through the letter box of the family's home in High Street, Twerton, "growled" at those inside then assaulted a police officer. The defendant, of no fixed abode, appeared at Bath Magistrates' Court today (February 1) to learn...

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February 2, 2017, 3:54 am

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A Bath woman crashed into two cars and a fire engine as firefighters were dealing with an incident while over the drink-drive limit. Georgina Mary Henderson-Lyons, of Rosewarn Close, was more than two-and-a-half times over the legal limit when she was caught on Ballance Street. She admitted the offence and failing to stop after a road accident on Julian Road on January 16 at Bath Magistrates Court. The case was adjourned so a pre-sentence report could be made. Returning for sentencing on...

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February 2, 2017, 5:53 am

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A Bath man with 38 separate convictions under his belt has appeared at Bath Magistrates' Court once more for offences against his ex-girlfriend's mother and her partner. Serial offender Robert Shill, aged 31, hurled abuse at his ex-girlfriend's mother Anne Hawkins at an address in Rosewarm Close, Southdown. In a separate incident Shill smashed in Ms Hawkins' boyfriend Glyn Denning's Citroen Picasso. He appeared at Bath Magistrates' Court for sentencing on February 1 after he was convicted by...

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February 2, 2017, 8:48 am

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A Bath man has admitted letting his large cross-breed dog become dangerously out of control on five separate occasions on city streets. John Jeffrey, aged 35, moves around Bath streets with his dog Thor, who is a large cross breed of Alsatian, Rottweiler and Doberman. He appeared at Bath Magistrates' Court on February 1, charged with five counts of letting Thor become dangerously out of control in a public place. Jeffrey, who was described by the prosecution as "somebody who lives on...

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February 2, 2017, 10:00 pm

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A man has been banned from entering any Co-op in Bath after he stole £800 of cheese and meat in two days. Jamie Skipp, aged 32, of Braysdown Lane in Peasedown, admitted two counts of theft when he appeared at Bath Magistrates Court on Thursday morning. Prosecuting, Laura Gardner said he had been released from prison only a week before he entered the Co-op in Upper Bloomfield Road, Odd Down, on January 4 with another man. They put numerous rump and sirloin steaks, gammon, pork chops...

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February 3, 2017, 1:05 am

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A man who defrauded a woman staying at Bath Backpackers hostel for more than £4,300 has been ordered to repay his victim in full and jailed. Jordan Deacon, aged 24, left the traveller feeling "so violated" after he stole her bank card and pin code while she was out for the evening. He was scolded by Bath magistrates for not giving "a great impression of Great Britain" to the Australian tourist. Caitlin Moss had written her pin down and left it next to the card in...

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February 3, 2017, 6:06 am

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A Larkhall man charged with six offences including sending offensive electronic messages has appeared in court. Mark John Swannack, aged 34, of Rose Hill, appeared before Bath magistrates on Monday (January 30). The offences he is charged with are as follows: Playing music at a loud volume and tampering with the vehicle of a neighbour, causing him to feel threatened and intimidated, in spite of a community protection notice on January 6 Using threatening or abusive words or behaviour...

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February 3, 2017, 6:28 am

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A pilot has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 by Bath magistrates after flying into the Glastonbury Festival site. Mark Peter Matthews, aged 49, of Moonsbrook near Radstock, landed his two-person helicopter in Love Fields, just outside the Worthy Farm festival site on Thursday, June 23. Three days later, on the final day of music festival attended by 120,000, his Robinson R44 helicopter was seen taking-off from the same site. Festival staff took photos of the helicopter as it left...

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February 3, 2017, 11:31 pm

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Pawel Piotr Giszczak, 25, of Cranmore Place, was given a suspended prison sentence after admitting driving on Pines Way while disqualified and without insurance on January 9. The aggravating features of Giszczak's offending were he wilfully drove while he knew he was banned and he "blatantly disregarded" a court order. Giszczak was committed to prison for 12 weeks, suspended for 24 months. He was ordered to complete 100 hours' unpaid work, pay a £115 victim surcharge and...

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February 6, 2017, 8:05 am

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A Bath man who let his beloved dog "sink its teeth" into a Cocker Spaniel in an unprovoked attack has been given a community order.Alan Steven Reynolds' French Labrador Trinny is the "reason he gets up every day", Bath Magistrates' Court heard today (February 6).But the dog nearly cost him a spell in prison after it set about fellow Snow Hill resident Kingsley Pillinger's dog Brew one day last summer. The attack on August 23 on a patch of grass near Reynolds' home in Dover...

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February 6, 2017, 10:15 am

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A man has appeared in court accused of burgling his own mum at her home.It is alleged Andrew Maggs broke into the property in North Road in Midsomer Norton on January 14 and stole £80 in cash from Sheila Maggs.Andrew Maggs was brought before magistrates at Bath Magistrates' Court today (February 6) in custody.Read more: Bath man who let his beloved dog 'sink its teeth' into Cocker Spaniel given community orderWearing a black hoodie and flanked by two prison officers he spoke to confirm his...

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February 7, 2017, 3:21 am

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Radu Danila, aged 27, of Bridge Road in Bath, pleaded guilty to assault. He was fined £300 and handed a community order where he must complete a rehabilitation activity for 15 days. He was also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a victim surcharge of £85. Emma Louise Ingram, aged 38, of Sheridan Road in Twerton, admitted stealing meat from the Co-op in Southdown on October 13 last year. She was discharged conditionally for 302 days and ordered to pay a victim surcharge of...