Berkshire courts bans criminals from entering pubs, shops, towns

For more serious crimes it’s often a prison sentence (which is sometimes suspended) whereas for less severe offences community orders are usually the go-to consequence.

However, sometimes convicts are banned from certain locations if these addresses were involved in the crime or prohibition from visiting these places might help with their rehabilitation or prevention of a future crime.

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Here are some of the places people sentenced at Berkshire’s Magistrates’ Courts have been forbidden from entering.

Co-op ban

A Slough woman was banned from entering the Co-op convenience store on Long Furlong Drive until February 2024 after being sentenced in February 2021.

This came after Kerry-Jane Taylor, 44, of Monksfield Way, Slough, admitted assault in Slough on April 15, 2021 and was convicted of harassment in Slough on April 14, 2021.

She received a community order and was told to take part in up to 30 days of rehabilitation activities.

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As well as this, she was forbidden from entering the Co-op Food store on Long Furlong Drive, Slough until February 2024.

No more Maidenhead

Mark Caruso, of Taplow Road, Taplow, was banned from entering Maidenhead after being convicted of assaulting a woman.

The incident occurred in Windsor in June 2021 and 36-year-old Caruso was found guilty of beating on October 18, 2021.

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Following his conviction, he was banned from entering Maidenhead and told to wear an electronically monitored GPS tag.

He was due to be sentenced at Reading Crown Court at a later date.

Bar None

Richard Cutting, of Merton Road South, Reading, admitted to threatening two police officers in Woodley in an incident on July 11, 2021.

He admitted his guilt at Reading Magistrates’ Court on January 25, 2022 and was told to stay away from the Be at One bar on Gun Street for the next 12 months as part of an eight-week suspended prison sentence.

As well as this, the 55-year-old was told to pay compensation of £60 to the victims.

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Canal exclusion

Mark Offer, of Butson Close, Newbury, was banned from walking down a canal path in Newbury after assaulting a man in the same town on November 18, 2021.

The 60-year-old was convicted of beating on November 18, 2021 and was handed a community order.

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As part of this order, he was told not to enter a canal path between Bone Mill Lane, Newbury and the swing bridge West Mills, Newbury for six months.

He was also told to pay £295 in court fees.

Boots thief

A 16-year-old girl from Essex, who we can’t name for legal reasons, was banned from entering all Boots stores in October 2021.

This came after the teenager, alongside three others, stole 92 Estee Lauder products worth £3,174 from Boots in Bracknell on January 11, 2021.

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She was banned from entering any Boots store for three months after her conviction, and told to pay £172 in compensation.

Boozer ban

A Reading man was banned from a Wetherspoons pub and told not to drink alcohol for two months.

Cheap pints and curry nights will be off the menu for Philip Clover, of Oxford Road, Reading, after he was convicted of harassment in February.

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The 63-year-old admitted to using threatening or abusive behaviour with intent to cause a woman distress on July 24, 2021.

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It is not clear precisely where the incident took place, however, but a court file indicates it occurred in Reading.

Appearing at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Friday, February 18, Philip Clover was sentenced for his offence.

He was handed a community order with a number of requirements.

One demand is that Clover must abstain from drinking alcohol for 60 days.

Another requirement of the community order forbids Clover from entering the Hope Tap Wetherspoon pub on Friar Street, Reading.

And it will be a long time before Clover can set foot in the popular boozer again as Clover was banned from this particular pub for the next 12 months.

His sentence was particularly strong because Clover had been handed a community order in August 2021 for another harassment conviction.

This came after Clover harassed a woman at the Swan hotel in Pangbourne between May 2, 2021 and May 16, 2021.

Waitrose shoplifter

A 49-year-old woman from Reading, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was banned from entering Waitrose in Thatcham after admitting to stealing items from the store on nine occasions between March 2021 and June 2021.

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She was committed to prison for 26 weeks suspended for 12 months, banned from entering Waitrose in Thatcham for 12 months, and told she must pay £500 in compensation.