HERE’S a selection of court cases featured in this week’s Barnsley Chronicle.

A BARNSLEY man who encouraged six girls to watch him carry out a sex act before carrying out indecent assaults over a 20-year period has been found guilty.

Robert Bedford, of Wakefield Road, Smithies, was charged with carrying out 16 historic sex offences by police in May 2015.

The 65-year-old had admitted four indecent assaults before the trial and faced 12 other counts relating to offences carried out between 1982 and 2002.

A jury, who found him guilty on all counts at the end of a three-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, were told Bedford began behaving inappropriately with one victim when she was ‘two or three years of age’.

He was arrested when a complainant, who is now an adult but was 12 when the sex act offence was committed, eventually reported him to the police in 2015 after she said she saw another youngster go into his address which prompted her - and then others - to come forward.

He will be sentenced on March 1.

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A WOMAN who was disqualified from driving three months ago has been jailed - after she was caught drink-driving.

Sarah Papirnyk, of Hermit Hill Lane, Wortley, appeared at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday and pleaded guilty to drink-driving.

The court was told Papirnyk, 30, was given a 24-month ban on October 10 of last year for being three times over the legal limit and ordered to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work.

On January 15, police followed her vehicle and noticed ‘erratic’ driving and stopped her when she got out of the car at her home address before carrying out a breath test.

Papirnyk’s specimen recorded 83mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath - the legal limit is 35mg - and was arrested.

Chairman of the bench Julie White said: “To commit the same offence so soon after being sentenced is a flagrant disregard of the law. We have no choice but to send you to prison for 16 weeks.”

Papirnyk was disqualified from driving for 46 months and told to pay a £115 victim surcharge.

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A REVELLER who slapped, threw a drink and spat in the faces of two Barnsley town centre bar staff has ordered to pay compensation.

Susan Powell, of Sandford Court, Barnsley, pleaded guilty to two assault charges at Barnsley Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday following an incident at Bar Bluu, Wellington Street, on July 23 of last year.

The court was told Powell, 56, took exception when she was asked to leave following a brawl - which she was not involved in - and slapped employee Gabriel Hambleton in the face before throwing a drink and spitting at his colleague, Charlotte Collins, who was recording the incident on a mobile phone.

Jamie Barton, defending, said: “Susan deeply regrets the incident and admitted she could not remember it when she was shown the footage. She had a lot to drink and apologises for her actions.”

Powell was ordered to pay £100 compensation to each victim, a £160 fine, costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.

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A MAN who is charged with raping a girl and five counts of sexual assault will appear at Sheffield Crown Court next week.

Dilbahadur Rayamajhi, 44, of Nicholas Street, Barnsley, entered no plea when he appeared at Barnsley Magistrates' Court last month and was granted unconditional bail until his appearance in Sheffield on Wednesday.

Five sexual assaults, which are alleged to have happened in Barnsley, took place between 2012 and 2016, while the rape allegedly took place in the town between November 2015 and December 2016 on a girl under the age of 13.