Here’s a snapshot of the cases that put defendants from Sutton, Carshalton, Croydon and beyond “in the dock” between May 14 and 20, 2025.
David Watters, 57, of Thicket Crescent, Sutton, must complete 60 hours of unpaid work as part of a community order running until May 13 2026 and pay £199 in a surcharge and costs for carrying a knife wrapped in black tape at O’Neills pub and a baton taped round the handle in Sutton High Street on March 17 2025.
He was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 14 2025.
Mr Watters also admitted possessing a joint of cannabis in Sutton on March 18 2025.
Magistrates ordered the drug forfeited and imposed no separate penalty.
Hamit Eskara, 48, of Hilliers Lane, Beddington, must pay £225 in a fine, court costs and a surcharge after admitting he breached a non-molestation order by turning up at his son’s Wallington school on September 18, 2023.
He was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 20, 2025, and was told to pay the money in £20-a-month instalments starting June 18.
Connor Power, 29, of Paisley Terrace, Carshalton, was given a 12-month conditional discharge and must pay £111 in court costs and a surcharge for obstructing PC O’Connor in Carshalton on May 3 2025.
He was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 19 2025 and must pay the money by June 16.
Bobby Simpson, 54, of Field Way, Croydon, was given a 16-week prison sentence suspended for 18 months after using a branch to assault two people in Croydon on September 29 2024.
Sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 19 2025, he must complete 250 hours of unpaid work within a year and take part in up to 15 days of rehabilitation activity.
Magistrates also ordered him to pay £800 compensation and £300 prosecution costs, to be settled in £20-a-month instalments starting June 16 2025, and imposed no surcharge.
Alfie Peel, 31, of Linkway Road, Brentwood, must complete 100 hours of unpaid work as part of a community order running until May 13 2026 for stealing power tools worth about £2,000 from a vehicle in Coulsdon on April 14 2025.
He was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 14 2025, and magistrates made no order for costs or surcharge.
Millik Delanbanque, 27, of Blackwall Lane, Greenwich, must pay a total of £505 after admitting he had cocaine and a quantity of cannabis in Croydon on May 1 2025.
District Judge N Fleck fined him £200 for the Class A drug and £100 for the cannabis, added £85 prosecution costs and a £120 victim surcharge, and ordered both drugs forfeited and destroyed.
Delanbanque, who entered his guilty pleas at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 16 2025, was told to pay the money in £100-a-month instalments starting June 13.
Victor Arnold, 67, of Seven Acres, Carshalton, must pay £235 in a fine and prosecution costs for breaching a restraining order, imposed by Croydon magistrates in September 2023, by entering Seven Acres on May 14 2025.
He admitted the offence and was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 16 2025.
Conner Price Smith, 23, of Duke of Edinburgh Road, Sutton, was handed a 12-month conditional discharge and must pay £150 compensation to PC Adair-Hedges, uplifted because the officer was an emergency worker, together with a £26 victim surcharge, for assaulting him in the Borough of Sutton on December 24 2024.
He was sentenced at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on May 20 2025 and was told to pay in £20-a-month instalments starting June 17.
Mr Price Smith also admitted possessing cannabis in Westminster on December 23 2024.
Magistrates ordered the drug forfeited and imposed no separate penalty.
