Here is a list of people who have appeared before magistrates in the county.

North Kent

A thief has narrowly avoided jail after stealing a charity collection pot from a bank in Sittingbourne.

Stephen Taylor, 40, of Peregrine Drive, Sittingbourne, admitted carrying out the offence in November last year.

He appeared before magistrates in Maidstone.

Taylor was jailed for 120 days, but the term was suspended for 12 months.

He was also ordered to pay £30 compensation.

A burglar has been ordered to carry out more than 200 hours of unpaid work after admitting stealing from staff areas at two supermarkets.

Mathew Steers, 29, of Sycamore Road, Strood, admitted stealing items from a supermarket in Kings Hill and one in London Road, Aylesford, in September last year.

Magistrates in Maidstone ordered he carry out 240 hours of unpaid work within the next 12 months and pay £624.97 in compensation and £85 costs.

A drink-driver has been ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work and has been banned from the road after getting behind the wheel more than three times the legal limit.

Tomaz Rozycki, 30, was caught driving a Ford Transit on theA249 in Stockbury, Sittingbourne, in January.

When tested, he gave a reading of 113 microgrammes of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit is 35.

Rozycki, of Colin Road, Luton in Bedfordshire, admitted the offence when he appeared at Maidstone Magistrates' Court.

Magistrates ordered he carry out the unpaid work within the next 12 months and was also ordered to pay £85 costs.

A banned driver who got behind the wheel again has narrowly avoided jail.

Aaron Gilbert, 39, admitted several charges when he appeared before magistrates in Maidstone.

The court heard how Gilbert, of Manor Road, Rushenden, pleaded guilty to driving a vehicle whilst disqualified and without third party insurance, in Minster in July last year.

He also admitted driving a vehicle whilst disqualified and without third party insurance, in Sheerness, in August the same year.

Magistrates jailed him for 120 days, but suspended the term for 12 months and he was also banned from driving again for 15 months, he was also ordered to pay £85 costs and carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

West Kent

A weed smoker has narrowly avoided jail after admitting being in possession of the drug and also a weapon.

Adrians Zevnenko, 18, was found with a quantity of cannabis in Week Street, Maidstone, in January.

Zevnenko, of London Road, Maidstone, also pleaded guilty to offences possessing an offensive weapon, a knuckleduster, in public on the same day in the town.

Magistrates in Maidstone jailed Zevnenko for 60 days, but suspended the term for 12 months.

He was also ordered to carry out 200 hours of unpaid work within 12 months and pay £85 costs and the cannabis and the weapon, will be destroyed.

A thug has been placed under curfew for 12 weeks after admitting three assaults including two on emergency workers.

Harry Smith, 26, of Ruskin Grove, Maidstone, pleaded guilty to the offences when he appeared before magistrates in Maidstone.

The court heard how he'd assaulted someone in November last year and attacked the emergency workers a month later.

Smith was jailed for 180 days, but the term was suspended for 18 months and was placed under curfew for 12-weeks at an address in Fairmeadow in the town.

Smith was also ordered to pay £350 in compensation.

A motorist has been sentenced over a string of driving offences when his case was listed before magistrates in Sevenoaks.

Robert Wynne, 40, was sentenced over driving without a licence, driving without insurance and while using a mobile phone.

Wynne, of Cradducks Lane, Staplehurst, was caught driving in Headcorn Road, Hawkenbury in March last year.

He was banned from driving for 24 months and fined a total of £660.

He was also ordered to pay £85 costs.

East Kent

A motorist has been banned from the road after getting behind the wheel more than twice the legal limit.

Adel Smith, 30, was caught driving while over the limit in Maidstone in January.

Smith, of Old School Mews, Kennington, Ashford, admitted the offence when she appeared at Maidstone Magistrates' Court.

The court heard when given a breath test, Smith gave a reading of 73 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit is 35.

Magistrates disqualified her from driving for 20 months and fined her £700 and ordered she pay £85 costs.

A motorist has narrowly avoided jail after admitting a string of driving offences.

Daniel Griffin, 34, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving and failing to stop when he appeared before magistrates in Margate.

Griffin, of Moore Close, Brenzett, was also sentenced over driving without due care and attention in Ashford on the same day.

Magistrates jailed Griffin for 12 weeks but suspended the term for 24 months.

He was also disqualified from driving for 15 months.

A man has been jailed after being found guilty of a string of offences while on a suspended sentence, including being in possession of cannabis at the Channel Tunnel Terminal in Folkestone.

Dominic Isagba, 30, was found guilty of driving without a licence, without insurance and being in possession of cannabis at the terminal in January.

Isagba, of Stonechat Road, Billericay, Essex, was sentenced by magistrates in Basildon, earlier this month and was locked up for four weeks.

A drunk man who assaulted an emergency worker has narrowly avoided jail.

Darren Teal, 51, of Benenden Road, Biddenden, admitted being drunk and disorderly and drunk and assault on an emergency worker when he appeared before magistrates in Folkestone.

Teal carried out the offences in September in Readers Bridge Road, Tenterden.

He was sentenced to eight weeks in prison, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to pay £100 in compensation and £85 costs.

A motorist has been banned from the road after getting behind the while almost three times the legal limit.

Deric Bosch, 44, of Guernsey Way, Kennington, admitted drink driving when he appeared before magistrates in Folkestone.

The court heard Bosch was caught driving over the limit in Chart Road, Ashford, in February.

When given a breath test, he gave a reading of 94 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit is 35.

Magistrates disqualified him from driving for 23 months and ordered he pay £85 costs.

A thug had narrowly avoided prison after admitting an attack on an emergency worker.

Zac Nixon, 20, pleaded guilty to the offence when he appeared before magistrates in Folkestone.

The court heard how, Nixon, of Fox Close, Lyminge, carried out the offence in August last year in Canterbury Road, Elham.

Magistrates jailed him for six months, but suspended the term for 12 and ordered he carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.

He was also ordered to pay compensation of £750 and £85 costs.

A thug has been given a suspended sentence after admitting a string of offences including assault on an emergency worker.

Cino Ioannou, 33, admitted threatening behaviour and failing to surrender to custody when he appeared before magistrates in Folkestone.

Ioannou, of Speldhurst Close, Ashford, was also found guilty of assaulting an emergency worker and being drunk and disorderly.

All the offences happened in Margate in September and magistrates were told he failed to show up at court on one occasion.

Ioannou was jailed for 12 weeks, but the term was suspended for six months. He was also fined £120 and ordered to pay £100 compensation and £300 costs.

A motorist has been banned from the road after pleading guilty to drink-driving and failing to stop after an accident.

Steven Earles, 51, also admitted not providing a name or vehicle details when he was asked to by police when he appeared before magistrates in Margate.

Earles of Norton Avenue, Herne Bay, was caught driving while over the limit in Ashford, in September.

When tested, he gave a reading of 91 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath, the legal limit is 35.

Magistrates ordered he carry out 150 hours of unpaid work within a year.

A woman who failed to provide a specimen for analysis when she was pulled over, has narrowly avoided jail.

Jamie Mills-Hughes, 41, admitted the offence when she appeared before magistrates in Margate.

The court heard how Mills-Hughes, of Norton Avenue, Herne Bay, failed to provide the specimen in February.

She was jailed for 12 weeks, but the term was suspended for 12 months.

Mills-Hughes was also banned from driving for 30 months.

A motorist has narrowly avoided jail after admitting two counts of drug-driving.

David Carpenter, 46, was caught driving in Folkestone in September last year and was found to have cocaine and benzoylecgonine in his system.

Carpenter, of Athelstan Road, Folkestone, was jailed for 12 weeks by magistrates in Margate, but the term was suspended for 12 months.

He was also banned from driving for two years and ordered to carry out 160 hours of unpaid work within a year.

Carpenter was also ordered to pay £85 costs.

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