A Halesowen woman was ordered to pay £465 compensation and given a conditional discharge for six months after admitting damaging a Ford Fiesta car belonging to another woman. She was Juanita Colleen Mare Dawes, aged 29, of Pickersleigh Close.

Other recent cases at Dudley Magistrates Court included:

A Dudley man who admitted assaulting three police officers has been given a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay more than £600 by magistrates.

Kristopher Kenneth Kirkham, aged 34, of Buffery Road, had changed his plea from not guilty. He was charged with assaulting PCs Gilbert, Kwiecin and Rose-Laing on the same day.

He was given a 24-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, and put on an electronic monitoring curfew for two months, from 5pm to midnight. He was ordered to pay £300 compensation and £313 in costs and victim fund surcharge.

A Rowley Regis man has been fined £300 and ordered to pay £219 costs after pleading guilty to possessing cannabis. He was Phillip Bishop, aged 24, of Springfield Lane.

Carrying a serrated kitchen knife in Darby End Road has cost a teenager £95. Nicholas Stringer, aged 18, of Vale Road, Dudley, admitted having the knife in a public place and was placed on a community order and ordered to pay into the victim services fund. The knife was ordered to be destroyed.

A discarded cigarette cost a Lye man £287. Michael Collin Dickens, aged 53, of Love Lane, admitted littering in Mears Coppice and was fined £85 and ordered to pay another £207 in costs and victim surcharge.

Mohammed Khalil, aged 43, of Wolverhampton Street, Dudley, was given a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay £57 after admitting being drunk and disorderly in Michaels Supermarket.

Paul Harewood, aged 58, of Sandyfields Road, Dudley, was fined £153 and ordered to pay £130 in costs and victim surcharge after he admitted a breach of vehicle insurance requirements.

Drink-driver Matthew Baggott has been disqualified for 28 months and ordered to pay £230. The 49-year-old from Montpellier Gardens, Dudley, admitted driving a Skoda in Aintree Way when over the limit. He had 96 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath when the limit is 35.

Robert Fazekas-Vilhelm, aged 38, of Cemetery Road, Stourbridge, admitted drink driving on Thorns Road, Quarry Bank, and was disqualified for 20 months. He was fined £500 and ordered to pay £185 in costs.