A Carlisle man has appeared in court and pleaded guilty to his 249th offence.
On 2nd December, 57-year-old Anthony Rennie Sheckley appeared at the city’s magistrates’ court.
Sheckley admitted twice flouting a criminal behaviour order he had been given weeks earlier in a bid to stop his prolific offending.
The court heard he had ventured on to two central Carlisle roads — West Tower Street and Lonsdale Street — in breach of the order — on different dates in November.
For those offences he was given an eight-week prison sentence which a district judge suspended for a year.
But just two days later, Sheckley was arrested again for committing his 249th offence, resulting in yet another magistrates’ court appearance today.
Prosecutor George Shelley said the police had received two separate calls from security staff at the Cumberland Infirmary overnight on December 2.
During an initial incident, Sheckley was described as being drunk, aggressive, shouting and swearing.
He was noted to be slurring his words, stumbling all over the place and swearing at people within the public atrium.
Sheckley, of Grange Road, Carlisle, left the hospital before police arrived.
But he was then the subject of a second call from security personnel to police who noted Sheckley to be drunk and disorderly.
In court, he admitted a drunk and disorderly charge. The prosecutor said he had 89 previous convictions for 248 offences.
Sheckley was not legally represented at today’s hearing. Asked whether he wished to say anything about his latest crime, he replied: “No.”
Magistrates fined Sheckley a total of £120 for the offence and also breaching his suspended prison sentence, concluding it would be unjust to send him to prison.
They also ordered him to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £32 mandatory surcharge.
Sheckley was made subject to a two-year criminal behaviour order in October. He is banned from entering a specified area of Carlisle city centre; must not be in possession of any unsealed vessel containing alcohol in a public place, except on licensed premises; and must not attend St Michael’s medical centre in Carlisle.
