THROUGHOUT the month of March, hundreds of people have appeared before Blackburn Magistrates Court.
From criminal damage to theft, driving offences to serious assault cases, the Lancashire Telegraph has covered many of the hearings.
Here are just a handful of those who have found themselves facing justice over the last four weeks.
Reveller attacked landlord on Blackburn pub's first day opening after lockdown
A reveller who went over the top on the first day pubs reopened after lockdown attacked the landlord.
Daniel Simon Brown was told he wasn't welcome in a town centre pub followed the landlord in and attacked him.
Blackburn magistrates heard Brown punched his victim repeatedly until he was dragged off by regulars at the Sun Hotel on Astley Gate, at 3pm on July 4.
Shocked shoppers looked on as police were called to put Brown in the back of their van.
Brown, 33, of St Paul's Terrace, Clitheroe, pleaded guilty to assaulting Phillip Price. He was made subject to a community order for 12 months with 15 days rehabilitation activity requirement and 100 hours unpaid work. He was ordered to pay £150 compensation to Mr Price and £85 costs.
Drug-driver's child fell out of back of car and was hit by taxi
A two-year-old girl fell out of the back of a car being driven by her dad and was hit by a passing taxi.
Blackburn magistrates heard police and ambulance responded to reports that the child's head had been run over and the driver of the car she had been in scooped her up, put her back in the car and drove off.
The court heard that in fact the child was relatively unharmed and shortly after, as police were trying to trace him, was driven back to the scene by Waqas Ahmed who had gone home to collect his wife.
Ahmed, 32, of Higher Antley Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to drug driving. He was made subject to an eight week curfew between 8pm and 8am, banned from driving for 18 months and ordered to pay £85 costs and £95 victim surcharge.
Fraudster's Stella McCartney trousers scam hit Blackburn store
A woman ran a complex designer clothing scam to cheat a store out of hundreds of pounds.
Blackburn magistrates heard Farhana Issa bought high-value items online and then transferred the labels onto inferior goods before returning them to TK Maxx in Blackburn.
Issa, 44, of Faroes Close, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud by false representation. She was made subject to a curfew for six weeks and ordered to pay £180 compensation.
Eight-year-old girl screamed as her dad was knocked out in pub row over pint
A dispute over a pint ended with a man being knocked unconscious in an Accrington pub.
Blackburn magistrates heard when the victim came round he could hear his eight-year-old daughter screaming and immediately took hold of her to reassure her he was alright.
Darys Anthony Lyddon, 30, of Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, Mid-Glamorgan, pleaded guilty to assaulting Shaun MacMillan causing him grievous bodily harm.
He was sentenced to 16 weeks in prison suspended for 12 months and ordered to pay £250 compensation and complete an alcohol treatment requirement.
Judge tells man 'racism cuts both ways' after white police officers abused
An Asian man who referred to police officers’ skin colour as he abused them was told that racism cuts both ways.
Deputy District Judge Gary Garland told Mohammed Asif Mahmood it was a sorry picture which had been painted of his behaviour towards the police and his family.
“Just as it is bad for white people to call black people horrible names it cuts both ways,” said Deputy District Judge Garland.
“If we are going to live in a society where we are all treated the same this kind of behaviour has got to stop. Skin colour is only a colour, it is only skin deep.”
Mahmood, 35, of Hawk Street, Burnley, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated threatening behaviour on February 26, assaulting an emergency worker and being drunk and disorderly on March 3. He was jailed for 18 weeks and ordered to pay £100 compensation to one officer and £50 each to two others.
Grane Road crash driver who had been smoking cannabis claimed he hit a puddle
A man whose car crashed off the Grane Road and ended up in a field was later found to be over the limit for cannabis.
Blackburn magistrates heard Fayaz Waka was taken to hospital with head and other injuries following the crash close to the Grey Mare pub.
Waka, 22, of Kirkland Close, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to drug driving, driving other than in accordance with a licence and without insurance. He was fined £200 with £85 costs and £34 victim surcharge and banned from driving for two years.
Woman due to give evidence at father's murder trial crashed her car when drunk
A woman who had crashed her car down an embankment and come to rest near the canal was found by police sitting in the driving seat drinking from a can of lager.
Blackburn magistrates heard Abigail Newton gave a roadside breathalyser reading over four times the legal limit but refused to provide a sample at the police station.
Newton, 30, of Wordsworth Close, Oswaldtwistle, pleaded guilty to failing to provide a specimen for analysis. She was made subject to a community order for 18 months with 25 rehabilitation activity requirement days, fined £50 with £85 costs and £95 victim surcharge and banned from driving for 28 months.
Burning Pink eco-activist tries to glue herself to Blackburn magistrates bench in protest
An activist who staged an eco-protest at Blackburn Magistrates Court today had to be removed by security staff.
Susan Reid attempted to glue her hand to a bench in court one and started using her mobile phone to film the proceedings.
The 62-year-old was warned that it was illegal to film within the precincts of the court but refused to put her phone away.
Deputy District Judge Roger Lowe warned she could be held in contempt of court and ordered security to be called to take her phone and remove her from court.
Outside Reid, of Jeffrey Avenue, Longridge, said she was a member of Burning Pink which she described as the newest “anti-political party.”
She said they were committed to bringing down the elitist government which she said had their own private interests at heart.
On the contempt of court threat she said she welcomed it.
Reid pleaded not guilty to criminal damage to a wall and windows belonging to Ribble Valley Borough Council on February 15.
She was remanded in bail until June 10 when she will appear at Preston magistrates to stand trial.
JAILED: Off-duty police officer caught burglar in his wife's salon
A MAN who was given a prison sentence which meant he would not actually go to jail had no such luck when he was back before the same court a week later.
Blackburn magistrates heard Wayne Malcolm Forrest was sentenced to six weeks in prison but was released because he had been subject to a curfew for seven months.
He was back before the court for another non-dwelling burglary and this time got 10 weeks in prison.
Forrest, 46, of Queen Victoria Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to burglary at Escape hairdressers on Briercliffe Road, Burnley, and theft of a charity box and various hair products. He was jailed for 10 weeks and ordered to pay £50 compensation towards the cost of repairing the shop door.
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