A solider who sexually assaulted three different women at a Whitehaven town centre pub on two separate dates while drunk has been ordered to wear an alcohol abstinence tag as part of a community punishment.
Carlisle Crown Court A man has been jailed after a court heard about how he brazenly stole garden furniture from a person who owed him £5 for a television. Craig Appleby, 33, who admitted theft and breaching the terms of a suspended sentence order, committed the on August 13, some five months after a court imposed a suspended 12-month jail term for witness intimidation. Rachael Wood, prosecuting, outlined how the victim had bought a TV from the defendant but still owed £5 of the purchase price to Appleby. “Arrangements had been made according to [the theft victim] that the [outstanding money owed] would be paid in instalments,” said Ms Wood. But the defendant threatened the man, telling him that he would smash up his house and retrieve the TV if he was not paid.
Carlisle salesman defrauded plumbers’ merchant out of £34,000
Carlisle Crown Court
A trusted plumbers’ merchant salesman who defrauded his firm of around £34,000 while in the grip of a gambling problem has been jailed.
Anthony Joseph Crangle, 25, was given a car and phone after starting with the Kingstown branch of Crossling Ltd in January 2018.
But during a period of around two months to six weeks, Crangle created 42 bogus invoices using customers’ accounts to place orders for products mainly either Worcester or Baxi boilers which he took away from the branch.
Crangle was tackled after customers contacted the company to query invoices for goods they had neither ordered nor received.