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

Magistrates have dealt with a variety of offences including motoring ones, assaults and intimidating witnesses.

Andrew Lee drove a BMW on Mayor Street in the centre of Bolton, while over the drink drive limit, while disqualified and with no insurance.

The 40-year-old was breathalysed and found to have 125 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 34.

Lee, of Cressingham Road, Daubhill, admitted the three offences at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates' Court.

Following this he was jailed for 20 weeks and was banned from the roads for five years.

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Ben Baines attacked and racially abused police officers.

He attacked one police constable three times in both Bolton and at the Swinton custody suite in May this year.

Also at Swinton he racially abused an officer and attacked them with the attack being racially motivated.

In June this year the 20-year-old failed to turn up at court.

At Manchester Magistrates Court he admitted three attacks on an emergency worker, racial harassment and racially aggravated assault and failure to attend at court.

Baines, of Meadowside Avenue, Lostock, was given a sentence of 16 weeks suspended for 18 months.

He was ordered to do a drug rehabilitation program for nine months and attend at 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days.

Kelly Harrison Scott attacked a woman in January 2022 in Bolton.

Two months later she attacked another woman.

And the same month she made threatened the same woman who was a witness in court proceedings.

The 46-year-old denied the three offences but was found guilty at Bolton Magistrates' Court.

Harrison-Scott, of Park Road, Queen’s Park, was given a sentence of a year suspended for two years.

She was ordered to do 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days and ordered to pay compensation of £75 to the first woman she attacked.