HM Courts Service: These are the magistrates' court results for the Worthing area from December 8 to 15, 2025

Nathan Lee, 47, of Ivy Arch Road, Worthing: Eight-month prison sentence, suspended for 24 months, with rehabilitation activity requirement after admitting 22 charges theft from a shop, stealing bottles of alcohol worth £140 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on April 22, 2024, 2025, bottles of alcohol worth £119 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on April 23, 2024, bottles of alcohol worth £140 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on April 24, 2024, bottles of alcohol worth £174 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on May 8, 2024, bottles of alcohol worth £140.50 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on May 10, 2024, bottles of alcohol worth £148 from Sainsbury's, Lyons Farm, on May 14, 2024, hygiene products worth £109.98 from Boots, Worthing, on May 30, 2025, hygiene products worth £52.42 from Asda, Worthing, on June 4, 2025, various medicines worth £201.60 from Boots, Rustington, on July 31, 2025, sandwiches worth £9.90 from The Co-op, Goring, on August 2, 2025, hygiene electrical items worth £109.98 from Boots, Worthing, on August 5, 2025, meat worth £203.58 from Morrisons, Worthing, on August 7, 2025, chicken worth £21 from BP, Rustington, on August 7, 2025, a pedal cycle worth £450 from Waitrose, Hove, on August 10, 2025, stealing confectionery worth £141 from The Co-op, Southwick, on August 11, 2025, stealing confectionery worth £71.90 from The Co-op, Southwick, on August 11, 2025, Ariel washing liquid bottles worth £72 from The Co-op, Goring, on August 30, 2025, a Vax vacuum cleaner worth £99 from B&M, Worthing, on September 4, 2025, a jacket worth £20 from To Be Worn Again, Worthing, on September 9, 2025, two vacuum cleaners from Robert Dyas, Worthing, on September 15, 2025, Blu-ray movies worth £62.95 from HMV, Worthing, on November 25, 2025, goods worth £201.60 from Boots, Worthing, on November 27, 2025. Must pay a total of £812.53 compensation and criminal behaviour order made, banning him from all The Co-op, M&S, Sainsbury's, Robert Dyas and B&M stores in Sussex. Also admitted failing to surrender to custody at Worthing Magistrates' Court on July 14, 2025, no separate penalty.

Rhys Hunt, 21, of Cokeham Road, Lancing: Fined £780 and must pay £85 costs after admitting breaching a community order made by Worthing Magistrates' Court on October 8, 2024, by failing to attend the Building Choices programme on September 25 and October 7, 2025. The order was revoked and he was sentenced for the original offences, receiving two 12-month concurrent prison sentences, suspended for 18 months, with rehabilitation activity requirement for having an offensive weapon, an axe, in a public place in Test Road, Sompting, on April 8, 2023; and driving while disqualified in Collingwood Road, Worthing, on January 20, 2024. Also admitted failing to comply with a community order made by Worthing Magistrates' Court on May 13, 2024. The order was revoked and he was sentenced for the original offences, receiving a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, with rehabilitation activity requirement for possessing cannabis, a class B drug, in Anson Road, Goring, on September 16, 2024, and a 12-month concurrent prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, for driving without insurance in Anson Road, Goring, on September 16, 2024.

David Webster, 55, of St Marys Close, Littlehampton: Community order with 120-day alcohol abstinence and monitoring requirement and rehabilitation activity requirement, and must carry out 140 hours' unpaid work, after admitting four charges of breaching a non-molestation order, by sitting in the victim's home address and being verbally abusive on November 30, 2024; leaving multiple voice messages between December 11, 2024, and January 25, 2025; and assaulting and threatening the victim on June 7, 2024, and February 7, 2025. Must pay £85 costs, £114 victim surcharge.

Tobias-Hordell Welton, 32, of Peony Grove, Durrington: Community order and must carry out 120 hours' unpaid work after admitting drink-driving (69mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath) and drug-driving (2.5ug/l Delta-9-THC) in Congreve Road, Worthing, on June 14, 2025. Must pay £85 costs, £114 victim surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 24 months. Also admitted driving a vehicle without a valid test certificate in Congreve Road, Worthing, on June 14, 2025, no separate penalty. Mark Brown, 50, of Clayton Walk, Durrington: Fined £266 and disqualified from driving for 13 months after admitting drug-driving (129ug/l benzoylecgonine) in Crowhurst Road, Brighton, on January 17, 2025. Fined £266 after admitting using a vehicle without insurance in Crowhurst Road, Brighton, on January 17, 2025. Also admitted driving otherwise than in accordance with a licence, no separate penalty.

Sean Bailey, 36, of St Aubyns, Fishersgate: Community order made by Worthing Magistrates' Court on May 20 revoked in the interests of justice and dealt with for the original offences, receiving a £200 fine for possessing cocaine, a class A drug, in Portslade on February 23, 2024, and no separate penalty for possessing cannabis, a class B drug, in Portslade on February 23, 2024.