THE Hereford Times team has covered many cases in the last month in the crown and magistrates' courts.
We've selected some of the most shocking case we reported on throughout August.
Here are those cases, and the sentences they resulted in.
Man jailed after violent disorder
A Herefordshire man has been jailed for violent disorder after throwing a fence panel at police.
George Coldicott, 28, of Leominster, was sentenced having pleaded guilty to violent disorder.
He was part of a group which used or threatened violence and caused others to fear for their safety during the disorder in Bristol on August 3.
Jail for 'disgusting' paedophile
A "disgusting" paedophile has been locked up for sending sexual messages to an undercover police officer who he believed to be a 12-year-old boy.
Kyle Hughes thought he was talking to a pre-pubescent child online, but in reality he was communicating with an undercover officer and the 'child' was just a decoy.
In the conversation, Hughes said that he "likes boys aged 12", asked the 'child' questions about his genitals, attempted to incite the child to masturbate and sent a picture of his own and another man's genitals.
Drug-driver jailed for attacking woman
A man has been jailed after chasing and attacking a woman in a Herefordshire town before drug-driving.
Jamie Higgins entered guilty pleas to one count of assault by beating, one count of driving a motor vehicle with a proportion of a specified controlled drug above the specified limit, using a motor vehicle on a road or public place without third-party insurance and driving a motor vehicle otherwise than in accordance with a licence when he appeared before magistrates in Hereford last month.
The court heard from Crown Prosecution Service prosecutor Camila Toscano that Higgins, who was represented at the hearing by defence solicitor Matthew Lewis of law firm Coulson Read Lewis, had assaulted a woman in Ross-on-Wye in an incident on September 11 last year.
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Thief stole from Philip Morris and Sons
A thief who stole a coat from an independent shop in Hereford has been spared jail time despite magistrates saying he had a “flagrant disregard for people and their property”.
Carl Gwynne walked free at Kidderminster Magistrates’ Court on August 7 despite twice stealing hundreds of pounds worth of goods from shops in Hereford.
The 44-year-old, of Red Norman Rose, Hereford, had admitted two counts of theft from a shop. He had taken a £115 Barbour coat from Hereford family-run shop Philip Morris and Sons on May 29, and £125.19 worth of packaged meats from a Tesco shop in Hereford on August 6.
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