Updated
Friday, 28th May 2021, 2:50 pm
Jack Mountford-Holding, 25, of Chesworth Close, Leigh, appeared before Wigan justices to admit to five thefts - mainly of alcoholic spirits - from shops between March and May this year. They include snatching two bottles of vodka from Leigh’s Tesco, two bottles of Jack Daniels and two of vodka from Asda on separate occasions, two bottles of gin from Aldi and also some razor blades on another criminal expedition to Asda.
The hearing was told he had previously been given a suspended jail term and community order for another shoplifting spate which also included threatening two people and breaching an order to stay away from a store.
He has been sentenced A MAN who entered a shop from which he was banned from doing so and threatened two members of staff has been given a suspended prison sentence. Jack Mountford-Holding, of Findlay Street, Leigh appeared at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates Court. Mountford-Holding, 25, pleaded guilty to nine charges in total for which he was given a 32-week sentence, suspended for 12 months. He entered Sainsburys in Leigh on February 17, which he was prohibited from doing so by as Criminal Behavioural Order imposed in April last year. He also indicated guilty pleas to two charges of making threats. The 25-year-old also admitted to four charges of stealing bottles of bottles of Jack Daniels between December 30 last year and February 6.