Ricky Polverino went for breakfast instead of attending court.
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AN 18-year-old who avoided jail after assaulting a PCSO failed to turn up for numerous probation appointments — and then went for breakfast when he should have been in court — has been told to grow up.
Ricky Polverino pushed the female officer down a steep flight of steps in Townhill in June last year, injuring her arm.
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He was given a 12 month suspended sentence with a requirement to carry out unpaid work after pleading guilty to inflicting grievous bodily harm.
However Swansea Crown Court heard he had missed numerous work appointments, and had left the probation service in no doubt as to his attitude towards the order.
He was subsequently summonsed to court for breaching the conditions of his suspended sentence.
But after initially attending the court, the Penlan teen went off to a cafe for breakfast and was not around when his case was called before justices.
When he eventually returned to the court, he was taken into custody and spent three days behind bars.
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Polverino, of Heol Cadifor, pleaded guilty to breaching the order when he appeared before judge Paul Thomas QC.
Victoria Thomas, for Polverino, described her client as an "immature 18-year-old", but the judge said he was acting more like a 12-year-old and needed to grow up.
The barrister said her client's time in custody since his unauthorised breakfast visit had been a "wake up call" for the teenager, adding it had "given him an insight into what awaits him if he misses any more appointments".
Judge Thomas said Polverino had been "very lucky" to avoid prison for the initial assault and that his attitude towards the probation service "stank".
He described Polverino's decision to leave the court in search of breakfast as "disrespectful to the court almost to the point of contemptuous".
The judge said he would adjourn sentencing of the breach for a month in order to see whether Polverino was prepared to comply with the order.
He told him: "You will not be having another chance after today, Mr Polverino.
"If you probation service says jump — you say 'how high?'
"Comply with the probation service 100 per cent or you will be going to prison for a lot longer than you just have."
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