A student who stole fantasy war game figures from a Carlisle shop along with a partner-in-crime has been given a suspended prison sentence.
Joshua Jackson, 22, teamed up with an accomplice on eight separate dates in late summer last year to snatch products — including figurines — from the city centre Warhammer premises at Earls Lane, off Lowther Street.
Warhammer is a medieval fantasy themed tabletop war game which makes use of miniature figures.
Carlisle magistrates heard Jackson and another student went into the Warhammer shop in Carlisle on eight occasions between the end of July and September, stealing items each time.
These had been valued at several thousand pounds.
“They are caught on CCTV and later identified,” said prosecutor Peter Bardsley.
The pair struck at the shop four times in one week alone in late August. More than £1,000 worth of property was said to have been pinched on a single day, in early September.
When interviewed, Jackson admitted the thefts but believed he had taken items worth only around £500.
He pleaded guilty to eight separate theft charges and was sentenced today.
Jackson, of Brunton Avenue, Carlisle, suffered from mental health issues.
“He was very much led on in becoming involved in this offending” said his solicitor, Duncan Campbell. “That is not to say that excuses it in any way. It is an explanation. He is not prone to conduct himself in this way nor this fashion at all.”
Magistrates imposed an eight-week prison term which was suspended for 12 months. Jackson must also completed up to 15 days of rehabilitation activity requirement work with the probation service, and pay £1,286.25.
Jackson’s co-accused, a 24-year-old Carlisle man, also received a suspended prison sentence and compensation order when he was punished earlier this year.
