THESE are the people from south Cumbria who have appeared before the courts this week.

Court sentences Barrow man who assaulted woman and child

A MAN who assaulted a woman and a child has been made the subject of a restraining order.

Brian Davies, 25, admitted that he assaulted Jennifer Rawcliffe and the child in Barrow on September 2.

At South Cumbria Magistrates' Court Davies, of New Street, was told to complete 100 hours of unpaid work and pay £100 compensation.

He has also been banned from entering a street under the terms of the year-long restraining order.

Dalton man, 21, banned from getting behind the wheel after drug-driving charge

A Dalton man has been banned from getting behind the wheel and fined after he admitted a drug-driving charge.

Karl John Bolton, 21, of Broughton Road, appeared before magistrates in Barrow on Thursday charged with driving a Renault Clio in Ulverston on June 20 last year 'when the proportion of a controlled drug, namely Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, in your blood, namely 4.3 microgrammes per litre, exceeded the specified limit.'

He was fined £200, told to pay a £34 victim surcharge and £85 costs and banned from driving for 18 months.

Kendal man admits making nearly 50 indecent images of children

A MAN is due to be sentenced after he admitted making indecent images of children.

Mark Thomas, 56, of Colin Hill in Kendal, admitted that he made 46 indecent images when he appeared at South Cumbria Magistrates' Court.

The images were made between January 1 and January 19 2020 and included four of the most serious category A photos.

Thomas is due to be sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court on February 26 and has been bailed.

Oxenholme sex offender flouted court order by accessing dating website

A SOUTH Lakeland sex offender flouted a strict court order and used an iPad to access a dating website.

Darren Knowles, 49, was handed an immediate 12-month prison sentence in early 2019.

He had been caught in a police sting trying to meet who he thought was a 12-year-old girl in a park, after chatting with an undercover officer through a website aimed at children.

Knowles, of Helmside Road, Oxenholme, was jailed for attempting to engage in sexual communication with a child and attempting to meet a girl after sexual grooming.

As part of his punishment, he was handed an order banning him from using any device capable of online access without promptly telling a police offender management team.

Recorder Lamb imposed a two-year community order comprising rehabilitation, an offending behaviour course, and a two-month night-time curfew after Knowles breached the order.