A DROITWICH man has been given a suspended prison sentence after he admitted threatening to kill a woman.

Matthew Parker, who also admitted assaulting the woman, was handed six months jail suspended for 18 months, ordered to carry out 100 hours unpaid work and pay £200 compensation, £185 costs and a £122 victim surcharge.

Worcestershire magistrates also issued a restraining order preventing the 40-year-old, from Bruton Avenue, from contacting his victim other than through a solicitor.

Also before Worcestershire magistrates:

Paul Cotterill, aged 58, of Homestead, Droitwich, pleaded guilty of being the owner of a dog which was dangerously out of control and injured two people.

Cotterill was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £100 compensation to each victim.

Joel Bryan, aged 23, of Barley Mow Lane, Catshill, was given six penalty points and fined £660 after he was convicted of driving without appropriate insurance.

He was further ordered to pay £85 costs and a £66 victim surcharge.

Zachary Chapman, aged 20, of Bruton Avenue, Droitwich, was banned from driving for six months and fined a total of £900 after he was convicted of three counts of failing to provide information relating to the driver of a vehicle involved in an alleged offence.

The ban was imposed after the number of penalty points on his driving record passed the threshold for a disqualification, was further ordered to pay £85 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.

Janet Smaylen, aged 60, of Rutherford Road, Bromsgrove, was fined £150, given five penalty points and ordered to pay £60 costs and a £32 victim surcharge.

Smaylen pleaded guilty to driving without due care an attention after her Toyota left the road and hit a fence and road sign.

She further admitted failing to report the accident to police or giving her details to someone with reasonable grounds to require them.

Katie Wainman, aged 34, of Burcot Lane, Bromsgrove, was fined a total of £1,540, given six penalty points and ordered to pay £85 costs and a £66 victim surcharge.

She was convicted in her absence of driving without due care and attention causing a collision with a van, failing to stop after the incident or give details to someone with reasonable grounds to require them, driving without appropriate insurance or an MOT.

Wainman was fined another £660 and banned from driving for six months after it was proved she drove a different vehicle on a separate occasion also without appropriate insurance.