We've rounded up a number of Bolton cases heard by magistrates recently - read on to find out who's been in the dock.

Assault and driving while banned

A man was given a suspended sentence and fined after assaulting another man and driving while banned.

Mark Buckley, 39, confessed to Manchester Magistrates Court that he had assaulted the man in Bolton on November 24 2022.

That same day he drove a Volvo on Wilfred Street and Hough Lane, despite being disqualified at the time.

Buckley, of Lords Stile Lane, Bromley Cross, was given a sentence of 26 weeks, suspended for 18 months and ordered to complete a 16 day thinking skills programme.

He was also ordered to pay £150 compensation and banned from the roads for a further 36 months.

Heroin and failing to provide specimen

A man was fined and banned from driving after being caught with heroin and failing to provide a specimen for police after driving.

Chrisopher Melling, 59, admitted to Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court that he had failed to provide a breath specimen for analysis in Bolton on October 26 2022.

He also admitted that on that same day he had had heroin in his possession.

Melling, of Spinningfields, Bolton, was banned from driving for 12 months and fined £180 for failing to provide the specimen and £120 for possession of heroin.

He was also ordered to pay costs of £670.

Magistrates also ordered that the heroin be destroyed

Indecent or threatening messages

A man was jailed after sending indecent or threatening messages to five different women.

Aftab Zulfiqar, 39, was found guilty of sending the messages to the women between September and October 2022 at Liverpool and Knowsley Magistrates Court.

He was found guilty of six counts of sending a letter/communication/article conveying an indecent/offensive message.

Zulfiqar, of Wigan Road, Bolton, was jailed for six months.

Failing to provide specimen and cocaine

A man was ordered to pay costs after being caught with cocaine and failing to provide specimens for police.

Gary Brockhouse, 36, admitted to Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court that he had failed to provide a breath specimen for analysis by police in Bury on November 7 last year.

He also admitted that in Radcliffe that same day he had cocaine in his possession and that he had failed to provide a specimen for a Class A drugs test.

Brockhouse, of Slade Street, Bolton, was £85 in costs and a £200 surcharge.

Magistrates also ordered that the cocaine be destroyed.

Restraining order

A man was jailed for breaching a restraining order.

Finlay O’Mara, 19, admitted to harassment by breach of a restraining order to Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court by going into an address in Bolton he had been ordered to stay away from on January 23 this year.

The restraining order had been imposed by the same court just a over a week earlier by the same court on January 15.

O’Mara was jailed for a total of 24 weeks.