A number of people from Bury have recently appeared before the courts.

Magistrates have dealt with a variety of offences including driving matters, cannabis cultivation, harassment and assault.

Mark Quinn abstracted electricity in Radcliffe in August 2021.

On the same date he cultivated 41 cannabis plants.

The quantity of electricity he abstracted had an unknown value.

The 42-year-old admitted the offences at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

Quinn, of Manchester Road, Whitefield, was given a sentence of six months suspended for two years.

He was ordered to do 300 hours of unpaid work.

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Jim Corvin harassed a woman in Bury who he was banned from contacting by a restraining order earlier this month.

The 30-year-old admitted the offence at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

Corvin, of Thatch Lean Lane, Whitefield, was jailed for four weeks.

Lee Mellor failed to comply with the notification requirements of the sex offenders register by failing to register that he no longer had a place to live earlier this month.

The 37-year-old admitted the offence at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

Mellor, of no fixed abode, and formerly of Percy Street, Bury, was jailed for ten weeks.

Carl Smith attacked a police officer in Manchester earlier this month.

The previous day the 50-year-old had breached harassed a woman by contacting her in breach of a restraining order.

Smith, of Water Street, Radcliffe, admitted the two offences at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

Following this he was jailed for 12 weeks.

James Chew drove a Volkswagen Polo on Bury New Road, Prestwich, while above the drink drive limit last month.

The 30-year-old was breathalysed and found to have 68 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. The legal limit is 35.

Chew admitted the offence at Manchester and Salford Magistrates' Court.

The man, of North Circle, Whitefield, was banned from the roads for 17 months and fined £784.