A 21-year-old appeared in court accused of damaging or destroying the door to a local train station.

Arturs Plisko, of Kitson Way, in Harlow, Essex, appeared in Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court after being charged with criminal damage to property valued under £5,000.

It is alleged he damaged or destroyed the front door to Croxley Station, in Croxley Green, “intending to destroy or damage such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be destroyed or damaged” on April 3, last year.

The door belonged to Transport for London (TfL) and the value is given as £1,000.

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He will next appear in the same court on April 21, 2023, for plea or proof.

Also in court

Ross Merrick, 70, was found guilty of driving while using a mobile phone on the A1 at Stirling Corner at 9.35am on May 9, 2022.

Merrick, of Beech Park Way, Watford, appeared in Ealing Magistrates’ Court on March 16 and denied the charge, but was found guilty that day and ordered to pay a total of £759.