Courts

A LYNDHURST accountant was kicked out of professional groups and fined for misconduct which cost the taxman hundreds of thousand of pounds.

TRIBUTES have been paid to Ringwood woman Ella Cooper (37) after a drug driver was jailed for causing a fatal road collision.

TEENAGERS could help decide sanctions for first-time young offenders in a new “community court”.

A BURGLAR who raided two cafés in the Christchurch area has been jailed after being caught nearly a year later through DNA evidence.

A NEW Milton thug was spared prison after he punched an aspiring DJ and caused him a bleed on the brain and the possibility of developing epilepsy.

A STRING of vehicle offences in Arundel Close, New Milton, resulted in a Bransgore man being jailed for 34 weeks.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD boy led a worried neighbour to the body of his father who had been dead for hours after a huge overdose of ecstasy, an inquest heard.

A 35-YEAR-old man from the New Forest has been jailed for 18 weeks after stealing £2,500 worth of goods from a John Lewis store.

THE death of a "wonderful" Bransgore woman who took her own life was wholly unexpected, an inquest heard.

A TOTTON 42-year-old sent sex messages to an undercover police officer posing as a 13-year-old girl, a court heard.

LYMINGTON tax accountant Peter Lashmar (70) has been spared an immediate jail term for maintaining company directorships despite a ban.

A LANDOWNER who cut down protected trees in a New Forest conservation area has been fined by a court.

A JUDGE delayed the sentencing of Pennington man Brandon Hood (20) amid his claims he was "looking after" drugs found at his home.

MAKING sexual communication with children in the New Forest resulted in a Christchurch man being handed a suspended prison sentence.

HGV driver Gary Horbury has pleaded guilty to causing the death of Margaret Fraser (89) in New Milton town centre through careless driving.

THE owner of a dog which attacked a pig in the New Forest that afterwards had to be humanely destroyed has been hit with a £615 court bill.

A LYMINGTON man was spared jail for his part in an attack on a teenager after he told a court how his dashed footballing dreams had affected him.

A 4X4 DRIVER who fatally hit her pensioner neighbour in Totton while answering her mobile phone has been spared a jail sentence.

A NEW Milton man punched a school foe as he left a Lymington pub, causing him to suffer a bleed on the brain and seizures.

A MAN has been convicted of raping a 17-year-old girl in Totton after offering her a lift home.