A DEBT-laden drug user who snatched £200 worth of steak during three thefts from Carlisle shops has been jailed for more than a year.
David Scott Pattinson, 29, struck at two stores on three separate dates.
Twice he went to the Co-op premises at Denton Street in Carlisle, first on February 23 and then again two days later. He stole steak respectively worth £116 and £41.40, stuffing the loot inside his jacket on both occasions.
He also visited Aldi on Petteril Bank Road in Carlisle and walked out with prime meat valued at £41.35 without paying.
Pattinson had been served with a criminal behaviour order (CBO) in February, 2015, as attempts were made to stop his criminal offending. This prohibited him entering named stores in Carlisle, Workington and Maryport but he had received a two-year prison term last January for a £1,000 crime spree.
He was sentenced at the city’s crown court today (WED) for the three latest thefts, and breaching the CBO three times by doing so; and admitted a fourth breach by visiting a Tesco store on February 28.
Judge Nicholas Barker heard the spate of 2020 offending meant heavily-convicted Pattinson had now flouted the CBO 18 times in total. He was said to have committed the latest thefts to pay off a drug debt, but was now clean of illicit substances.
Jailing Pattinson, of Ravenstone Way, Carlisle, for 14 months, Judge Barker said of the CBO: “It has been in place for in excess of five years. You have repeatedly and continuously breached it.”
The judge added: “Yet again stores are inconvenienced, troubled, lose money as a result of your actions and your thefts.”
