THESE are some of the cases that were heard at Worcester Magistrates Court this week.
AN alcoholic urinated in a police van and spat at an officer.
Leanne Reeve who pleaded guilty to criminal damage at The Lyppard Grange pub and assault suffers from psychosis and “drinks to excess” every day, the court heard.
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Michael McDonagh, of Brookthorpe, Gloucester, pleaded guilty to stealing more than 20 tote boxes worth £460 from Asda in Pershore on December 17 before stealing 20 more from Halfords in Malvern on the same day.
He was given a two-year community order.
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And, at Redditch Magistrates Court, a drunk carer who strangled his lover while screaming he should have died in the house fire that left him disabled has been spared jail.
James Band admitted assaulting his disabled partner in a 'hate crime' attack in Worcester, leaving finger marks on his neck and the taste of blood in his mouth.
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