Man jailed after wrecking spree
A wine thief who caused more than £2,000 of damage at the same shop has been jailed.
Callum Snowball is also now subject to an exclusion order banning him from entering The Spar, in North Hylton Road, Sunderland, where both offences took place, for the next two years.
Snowball was jailed for four months just 24 hours after committing his crimes after a court heard they were in breach of a suspended sentence imposed in September after he picked up a metal pole and threatened two people at Seaburn’s Grand Hotel.
His latest offences took place on Sunday, November
29, when he stole a £10 bottle of wine from the store and caused around £2,200 of damage to glass doors, shelving and stock.
Snowball admitted both charges when he appeared before South Tyneside Magistrates’ Court the following day.
He also pleaded guilty to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour on November 29, and to committing offences while serving a suspended sentence.
The court, which also took into account his previous record and the nature of his actions, locked him up for eight weeks for each of the latter charges.
He also received eight weeks in jail for the criminal damage and two weeks’ imprisonment for the theft.
Both of these terms will be served concurrently as part of the overall 16-week sentence.
Snowball, 23, of Bessemer Street, Ferryhill, must also pay £150 compensation.
He had received an eightweek sentence, which was suspended for a year, from the same court in September after admitting to threatening violence at the Grand Hotel on July 21.
Magistrates were told he grabbed the pole from behind the venue’s reception desk after starting an argument with a female employee.
When a female guest who he had just met tried to calm him down, Snowball shouted: “I’m going outside for a tab. If she’s still here when I get back, I’m going to kill her and then I’m going to kill you.”
Tom Morgan, defending, said during September’s case that Snowball had been housed at the hotel by a local authority.
He added: “He is someone with major mental health issues, he suffers from a personality disorder. He was extremely psychologically unwell.”