A Basingstoke man convicted of possessing a metal pole as an offensive weapon has avoided prison after magistrates found exceptional circumstances in his case.
Nathan Rogers, 37, of Taverner Close, Basingstoke, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on September 17 for possessing an offensive weapon in a public place.
The offence involved a metal pole and took place in Freemantle Close, Basingstoke, on June 5.
Rogers was convicted on June 30.
Rogers was given a community order ending on December 16, and an eight-week electronically monitored curfew.
He was ordered to remain at his Taverner Close address, including its back garden, between 7pm and 7am each day until November 11.
The metal pole was ordered to be forfeited and destroyed.
Rogers was also ordered to pay £40 prosecution costs and a £114 victim surcharge.
The court recorded that Rogers had a relevant previous offence but found exceptional circumstances which justified not imposing the minimum sentence of six months’ imprisonment.
The reasons given were that five years had passed since the previous relevant offence and that personal circumstances concerning Rogers had been outlined in a psychiatric report.
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Daniel Stevens, 34, of Star Hill, Hartley Wintney, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on September 17, after being found guilty of drug-driving.
He drove a white Ford Transit on the A30 at Star Hill, Hook, on February 27, 2023, when the level of benzoylecgonine in his blood was above the specified legal limit.
He was disqualified from driving for 36 months and ordered to pay £200 in prosecution costs.
In matters arising from the same incident, Stevens had previously indicated guilty pleas to possessing ketamine and criminally damaging a pair of prescription spectacles.
No separate penalties were imposed for those offences.
Court records note he had previously received an 18-month custodial sentence connected to the same incident, although it was unclear whether those matters had already been dealt with by the Crown Court.
Samantha Lange, 34, of Roman Way, Andover, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on September 17, after pleading guilty to failing without reasonable excuse to provide a blood specimen for analysis.
The offence took place at Basingstoke Police Investigation Centre on August 21.
Lange was fined £120, ordered to pay £40 prosecution costs and a £48 victim surcharge, and disqualified from driving for 12 months.
A collection order was made, with deductions from benefits.
Alexander Raisborough, 40, of Observer Point Road, Overton, was sentenced at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on September 16 after admitting to breaching a community order.
Raisborough failed without reasonable excuse to attend unpaid-work appointments on June 24 and July 1.
He was fined £120 and made subject to a collection order.
The court ordered deductions from benefits, with reserve payment terms of £20 a month.
No order for costs was made.
A second alleged breach, concerning a failure to provide evidence of a reasonable excuse, was withdrawn.
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