Carlisle Crown Court
A persistent Carlisle crook stole watches while burgling his aunt and uncle’s home, and was wearing one when police caught up with him hours later.
The couple were upstairs in their address, off Newtown Road in the city, when James Felton Queen sneaked inside on the late afternoon of April 21. When the couple came downstairs, they found a note from their 45-year-old nephew, who had pinched two mobile phones, a wrist watch, pocket watch and a bag of clothing.
Queen was arrested hours later wearing one of the watches, while the other plus one phone were found in his possession. He initially denied the offence, claimed he bought the property and stated: “I wouldn’t burgle my own family.”
A HOMELESS Carlisle man who deliberately gets himself arrested drunkenly told ambulance staff: I want to kill and eat people . Forty-four-year-old Andrew Bell - in the past described as Carlisle s Number One Nuisance - was this week beginning the latest in a series of jail sentences after the city s crown court heard about his antisocial behaviour on the morning in April . Peter Wilson, prosecuting at the city s crown court, said Bell had been under a criminal behaviour order since June of 2017 because of his previous bad behaviour. It initially banned him from being in Carlisle city centre at night but then the order was amended to specify that he could be there provided he was sober and not causing trouble for anybody.