A ONE-TIME “high risk crook” has been banned from Bacup town centre.
Heroin addict Richard Beresford, 32, stole toiletries from Boots on October 13 when he had medication problems, but claimed he was the “fall-guy” when he pinched five packs of bacon worth £14.95 from Morrisons the following day.
Weeks earlier, he had helped himself to alcohol to the value of £37.88, also from Morrisons, Burnley magistrates heard. The hearing was told Beresford last had intervention from the probation service in when he was assessed as a “high risk to the public and a risk to himself”.
The defendant is now facing jail, after admitting three counts of theft, on September 16 and October 13 and 14. He was bailed until November 5, for a pre- sentence report, on condition he lives at his home on Sandfield Road, Bacup, obeys a 7pm to 7am curfew, seven days a week and does not enter Bacup town centre, except to visit his GP or chemist.
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