'Serial shoplifter asked to be sent to prison to escape her habit'Ī serial shop lifter who stole perfume to fund her drug habit asked to be sent to prison to "escape her situation." He was also ordered to pay court costs and charges amounting to £315. I would be justified in imposing an immediate custodial sentence however I will draw back.ĭingle was given a 90 day prison sentence suspended for 12 months as well as two community referral orders - one being a rehabilitation referral for six months and the other an electronically monitored curfew for 14 weeks. Gary Harvey defending said Dingle had lost his prescription for 25ml of methadone when he committed the offence.ĭistrict judge Gwyn Jones told him: “If you can afford cocaine you can afford school uniforms. He was also electronically tagged and in breach of a curfew imposed in July. Tests carried out by police later revealed he had taken cocaine and heroin. He made it 10ft out of the store before he was stopped and asked to come back inside.
Rhian Jackson, prosecuting at Flintshire Magistrates Court said he caught the attention of CCTV staff who noticed Dingle was “not paying attention” to what he was putting in his trolley. He said he intended to sell the meat, valued at £175 to raise enough funds to buy their school uniforms.
The 40-year-old father-of-two from Mountain View, Hope, Wrexham told police he’d committed the crime because he couldn’t afford to kit out his kids. Russell Craig Dingle rushed around Tesco in Broughton throwing meat into his trolley and covering it with large bags of crisps in a four-minute supermarket sweep.īut when he tried to walk out without paying, he was stopped by security guards and later arrested. A drug addict who stole joints of meat to apparently pay for his children’s school clothes but tested positive for drugs was told by a judge “if you can afford cocaine, you can afford uniforms.”
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