A repeat Carlisle shoplifter stole beer and cocktail mixers will spend Christmas Day in custody.
On November 6, 47-year-old Lavinia Moorhead was made the subject of a criminal behaviour order after she admitted theft and public order crimes.
Carlisle Neighbourhood Policing Team successfully applied for the two-year order which banned her from entering a host of city shops.
But Moorhead was back at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court today when she pleaded guilty seven charges, including four thefts.
She admitted stealing cocktail mixers from B&M at Wigton Road on December 9; £112.40-worth of goods from a Co-op, on December 16; a four-pack of Stella lager from Bargain Booze on December 14; and a £10 crate of Budweiser from Foreways the following day.
Moorhead also admitted breaching the order by entering both Sainsbury’s at Church Street — on November 28 — and B&M on December 9; and using threatening words or behaviour during an incident on December 15.
The court heard she had been recalled to custody after receiving a 14-week prison sentence at the court last month.
Defence solicitor Lauren Heasley, mitigating, said Moorhead was realistic about the latest punishment which lay in store for her.
“She is not asking for a Christmas miracle. She is asking for leniency,” said Miss Heasley.
District judge Philip Holden opted not to pass sentence immediately for the latest crimes.
Instead he adjourned the case until January 14, when Moorhead, of Stonegarth, Carlisle, will be sentenced following the preparation of a probation service pre-sentence report which will explore alternatives to a jail term.
In the meantime, Moorhead remains in custody.
