Courts

Assaulting a police officer saw a Waterside man handed a suspended prison sentence.

A Lymington man accused of forging the will of a wealthy and “vulnerable” widow has lost his fight over her £5 million estate.

A Christchurch man has been sentenced for possessing indecent images of children.

A man has been sentenced for hurling “vile” verbal abuse at vulnerable members of the public in Ringwood.

A Former Forest vet who was caught with more than 2,000 indecent images of children and animals has appeared in court again.

A Bransgore man has been named as the victim of a Forest road crash involving a stolen car.

A New Milton woman stole more than £80 of meat on her birthday.

A Christchurch man was due to appear in court today (Monday) after a series of robberies and an attempted robbery.

A second motorist has been jailed over a fatal crash near Ringwood which happened after the drivers “appeared to be racing”.

A shoplifter who pushed and punched a store worker and headbutted businesses’ windows in Poulner has been jailed for five weeks.

A drink driving mum from New Milton with a “recent traumatic history” has been allowed to keep her licence due to “exceptional hardship”.

An alleged shoplifter is set to appear in court after thefts from two stores in Brockenhurst.

A man who styled himself on comic book villain the Joker has been found not guilty of trying to kill a woman he called his “Harley Quinn”.

A Langley motorist caught speeding on a motorway evaded a ban from the roads to keep his scaffolding business running.

A man accused of strangling his ex-girlfriend twice told a jury he took a lie detector test to prove he was not cheating on her.

Two fraudsters have been jailed for conning 11 victims across the country, including a Christchurch resident, out of thousands of pounds.

A teenager who admitted strangling his girlfriend who feared she would pass out has been handed a suspended prison sentence.

A man who styles himself on the Joker and is accused of strangling his ex twice said he throttled her only once after she attacked him first.

A man accused of trying to murder a New Forest woman has a collection of tattoos of her, including a portrait on his neck, a court heard.

A man who “identifies” as comic book villain the Joker tried to kill his partner by strangling her in her New Forest home, a court trial heard.