Thug jailed for store rampage
This is the moment a drunken thug went on a rampage in Asda causing the shop to lose £14,000 worth of custom.
David McBeth, 30, can be seen in CCTV footage taken at the branch in Ryhope,smashing bottles and piling a trolley high with alcohol.
Newcastle Crown Court heard McBeth was drunk when he was approached at the store by the manager after he was seen putting joints of meat into a carrier bag.
The items were taken off him and he was told if he wanted them he could pay for them before leaving.
He then picked up four bottles of whiskey, before waving one of them above his head while shouting aggressively.
The manager took the him and it smashed on the floor. McBeth shouted aggressively that he would "take what he wanted" and "I will **** ing glass you".
At one point McBeth struck a shop worker with one of the bottles, causing a small cut to his back.
To prevent the situation from escalating McBeth was allowed to leave the shop, before the doors were locked.
But McBeth then kicked the doors and threw bottles at them, causing a panel to smash, to the cost of £300.
The shop was forced to shut for the rest of the day, losing £14,000 as a result.
McBeth committed the offence in June of last year during an 11-day crime spree.
He'd earlier left a man with a bleed to his brain and an eye socket fracture after an argument at Illusions nightclub in Sunderland city centre turned violent.
It was eight days later, on June 24 last year, that McBeth, who was eventually arrested for the first offence after being identified from CCTV, launched a second unprovoked attack.
Prosecution barrister Kevin Wardlaw told the court how McBeth had witnessed an incident between a customer support officer and a couple in the midst of an argument at The Bridges Shopping Centre in Sunderland.
Despite being in no way involved in this serial offender McBeth, who has 32 convictions for 60 offences, struck the customer support office, knocking him to the ground, before fleeing the scene.
Jailing McBeth for four years, Judge Robert Adams told him: "In just over a week you committed three very seriousoffences while under the influence of drink and drugs."