Courts

A developer has been ordered to pay nearly £8,000 after admitting damaging 27 protected trees.

A serial shoplifter who targeted several stores in town has been jailed and ordered to pay nearly £500 to her victims.

A drink-driver who mounted a roundabout in his car before walking away from the scene has been banned from the roads.

Two men have admitted using a signal relay device to steal a car.

Sometimes, the bench at Lynn’s Magistrates’ Court can decide that they don’t have the power to sentence a defendant.

A drug-driver who was seen “swerving across the road” and later kicked a police officer has been banned for three years.

A 27-year-old said he was in “the wrong place at the wrong time” when he got involved in a drunken fight during a night out.

A 34-year-old repeat offender who cut off his alcohol monitoring tag was witnessed punching and kicking a man to the floor.

A 38-year-old who had almost 40g of cannabis in his car “didn’t realise” he was four times the drug-drive limit.

A 48-year-old who carried out a prolonged violent assault on a woman and man - leaving one of them unconscious - will have to wait to hear his fate.

A drink-driver who was seen veering to one side of the A47 has been disqualified and hit with a £500 fine.

A 38-year-old was seen trying to rip a letterbox from a homelessness charity building while drunk.

A vigilante group caught a 63-year-old paedophile who believed he was communicating sexually with a 13-year-old girl.

An Old Etonian who threatened to throw his ex-partner down a well at his family’s country estate has been jailed for 24 years for attempted murder.

It appears there has been an increase in indecent exposure cases in court over the past few weeks.

A 19-year-old landed himself in court after stealing two crates of beer from a petrol station shop.

A 47-year-old man who had a knife in his pocket when police pulled him over has avoided a spell in prison.

A court heard how a couple were “strapped for cash” decided to steal baby products from a shop in Lynn.

A 39-year-old who was pulled over for drug-driving and caught with a knife in his pocket has been handed a community order.

A heroin user who was caught shoplifting twice in Lynn last year has been sentenced.