A brazen shoplifter who filled a supermarket trolley to the brim with meat and left without paying has been jailed for 18 weeks.
Carl Andrew Davies had more than £150 worth of meat taken from the Lidl store in Holyhead on Monday magistrates at Caernarfon heard.
The 31-year-old from Cleveland Crescent, Holyhead appeared from custody after being arrested after two further charges of shoplifting yesterday.
Mel Hughes, prosecuting, said an assistant manager at Lidl had watched Davies filling up the trolley with meat and heading out of the store.
“He was stopped in Llanfawr Road and claimed he had paid for the items,” said Mr Hughes.
Yesterday staff at McColls in Cemaes Bay noticed Hughes had put six bottles of Prosecco and two bottles of rose wine and several cartons of coffee in a basket and leaving the shop.
Later that day he went to the post office in Llanfachraeth and stole meat and groceries.
Davies admitted three charges of theft, one of damaging the door of a police car and another of breaching an order preventing him from entering any Lidl store.
Carl Andrew Davies, 31, had more than £150 worth of meat stolen from the Lidl store in Holyhead when caught
Glyn Roberts, for Davies, said he had been trying to break a cycle of drug addiction and had been making progress working in co-operation with CAIS.
“He regrets being before the court and his candid admissions to police show remorse for these offences,” the solicitor said.
Bench chairman Alwyn Lloyd Ellis said he was being granted credit for his guilty pleas.
“But you are going into prison for these offences.
"It is the only sentence to protect shopkeepers,” he said.
Davies was handed a six-week prison sentence for the three theft charges to be served consecutively.
He was handed a four-week sentence for criminal damage and 10 weeks for breaching the order.
These sentences to be served concurrently with the other sentences.
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