A number of people from Bolton have recently been before the courts.

Magistrates have dealt with a number of offences including thefts, assaults and possession of a weapon.

Joshua Hambleton stole meat joints worth £87 from Aldi in Bolton.

The 24-year-old admitted the offence, which took place in April at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court.

Hambleton, of Thorn Wall, Westhoughton, was placed on a community order to last until December 2025.

He was ordered to do a drug rehabilitation requirement for six months, to attend 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and to do 100 hours of unpaid work.

He was also told to pay compensation of £87.

Daniel Berry attacked a woman in Manchester in April.

The 39-year-old admitted the offence at Manchester Magistrates' Court.

Berry, of Cawdor Court, Farnworth, was given a sentence of 12 weeks suspended for a year.

He was ordered to do an alcohol treatment requirement for a year and ordered to do 15 rehabilitation activity requirement days and told to pay compensation of £50.

Joseph Lewis had a large hunting knife on Rudd Street, Manchester, in June last year.

The 24-year-old was found guilty of the offence at Stockport Magistrates' Court.

He had entered a not guilty plea.

Following this he was placed on a community order to last for a year.

Lewis, of Nook Fields, Harwood, was told to do 60 hours of unpaid work.

The court also ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the hunting knife.

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Roy Allen stole meat worth £35 from the Co-operative store in Bolton last month.

The following day he stole £60 of meat from the Co-operative shop in Bromley Cross.

The 36-year-old admitted the thefts at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court.

Allen, of Chorley New Road, Heaton, was given jailed for three weeks.

The reasons given were that he had an “appalling record for similar” offending.

He was also ordered to pay compensation of £95.