Court results published by the Herts Advertiser are taken from St Albans and Hatfield Magistrates Court and are published without prejudice.

Stephen Herbert: 43, of Russet Drive, St Albans, was given an 18 month conditional discharge and ordered to pay 310 compensation and £105 costs after stealing two bottles of wine worth £10 from The Spa in St Albans on April 10.

Phillip Beckwith: 37, of Rendlesham Avenue, Radlett, was made subject to a curfew for four weeks between 9pm to 6am, was banned from driving for 30 months, and ordered to pay £170 costs after driving while disqualified and without MOT or insurance in Roman Road, Elstree, on May 11.

Alec Monaghan: 38, of Craiglands, St Albans, was fined £507 plus £135 costs and awarded six penalty points for driving without due care and attention in Chipperfield Road, Bovingdon, after skidding over a give way sign causing a bike rider to collide with the front of his vehicle, on December 14.

Marcus Deans: 40, of Highfield Avenue, Harpenden, was fined £333 plus £118 costs and awarded three penalty points for speeding in excess of 40mph along the M25 between J18-17 when a 40mph speed limit was in place on November 16.

Andrew Brown: 19, of Hatfield Road, Smallford, was banned from driving for six months and fined £120 plus £105 costs after driving without due care and attention on the A414 at St Albans on September 25, executing a u-turn on the carriageway and driving back up to the roundabout the wrong way, before driving around the roundabout the wrong way and cutting in front of a police vehicle which had witnessed his actions, and driving unsupervised with just a provisional licence and no L plates.

Michelle Taylor: 45, of Shottfield Close, Sandridge, was fined £40 plus £30 costs for stealing food worth £9 belonging to Poundland in St Albans on June 28.

Peter Fleming: 29, of Alder Close, Park Street, was ordered to carry out 80 hours unpaid community work and pay £170 costs after sending a grossly offensive or indecent, obscene or menacing message via a public electronic communications network at St Albans on June 15.

Justin Sycamore: 37, of Upper Latimore Road, St Albans, was ordered to attend drug rehabilitation treatment for nine months, and pay £40 compensation and £170 costs after stealing eight bottles of perfume worth £413.50 from Debenhams in Hemel Hempstead on June 1, and meat items from the Co-op at Potters Bar on May 20.

David Garland: 55, of Bricket Road, St Albans, was ordered to pay £250 compensation after damaging a ground flood glass window in Victoria Street, St Albans, on July 4, and was committed to prison for six weeks for using racially-motivated threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause another person harassment, alarm or distress, at St Albans on July 4.

Buster Cook-Kenny: 22, of Grimthorpe Close, St Albans, was fined £60 plus £85 costs for damaging a glass panel to the front door of a property in Grimthorpe Close, and a plant pot at the same location, on November 7.

Jake Dimmer: 23, of Hillcrest Road, Shenley, was fined £200 plus £6.80 compensation and £145 costs after travelling on a railway without a valid ticket, en route near St Albans on December 28.

Thomas Noakes: 23, of Thamesdale, London Colney, was fined £80 plus £11.60 and £145 costs after failing to hand over a ticket for inspection at St Albans station on March 13.

Caitlin Shea: 29, of Caesars Road, Wheathampstead, was fined £60 plus £5 compensation and £370 costs after entering a train without a valid ticket entitling her to travel, at St Albans on January 10