A BURGLAR and shoplifter has been jailed after stealing four mountain bikes from sheds in Cheshire. Lewis Dutton went into a garden on Victoria Road, Runcorn, and entered the shed in the early hours of Monday, January 18. The 28-year-old is not believed to have taken anything from the shed, but soon afterwards he attempted to steal a mountain bike that was chained up in another garden on Victoria Road. He used a hacksaw on the chain but fled without the bike after activating a security light and waking up the occupiers. In the morning people living in the nearby St Johns Gardens and Ashley Road woke up to discover that mountain bikes had been stolen from their sheds overnight.
Lewis Dutton A BURGLAR and shoplifter has been jailed for almost one year after stealing four mountain bikes from sheds in Runcorn. Lewis Dutton, of Clapgate Crescent, Widnes, appeared in Warrington Magistrates Court on Wednesday, where he pleaded guilty to the offences. The court heard how the 28-year-old went into a garden on Victoria Road and entered the shed in the early hours of Monday, January 18. He is not believed to have taken anything from the shed, but soon afterwards he attempted to steal a mountain bike that was chained up in another garden on the same road. Prosecutors said he used a hacksaw on the chain but fled without the bike after activating a security light and waking up the occupiers.
Alan McCormick, of Bridgeway West in Windmill Hill, has been committing offences in Halton since 1999. The 40-year-old has been convicted of 29 theft-related offences, the latest of which saw him steal items worth a total of £122 from Runcorn Shopping City’s Wilko store on November 4. In a bid to deter McCormick from committing further shoplifting offences, Halton’s Problem Solving team applied for a three-year criminal behaviour order (CBO). The banning order was imposed on McCormick by Warrington Magistrates’ Court on Monday. It prohibits him from entering eight stores in Runcorn – Wilko at Shopping City; Co-op in Windmill Hill, Balfour Street, Halton Road, Grangeway, Murdishaw and Granville Street; and Asda in West Lane