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A man from Bury St Edmunds has been sentenced after being convicted of a string of making off without payment offences across Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
Declan Walsh, 32, of Mortimer Road, Bury St Edmunds, appeared before Ipswich Magistrates’ Court yesterday, Tuesday 12 January, where he was sentenced after previously pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to 16 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months. He was also disqualified from driving for three months.
Walsh was also ordered to pay compensation costs totalling more than £500.
The sentence follows 10 charges for making off without making payment offences, all occurring at petrol stations between March 2020 and August 2020, in Brandon, Woodbridge, Bury St Edmund in Suffolk, Thetford in Norfolk, as well as Milton in Cambridgeshire.