A Surbiton man has been jailed after committing a slew of offences including assaulting a police officer, smashing a glass door, being drunk and disorderly and stealing beer.

Andrew Thompson, 22, of Alfriston, Berrylands Road, was jailed for eight weeks and ordered to pay £250 compensation at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court yesterday.

He had pleaded guilty to the following:

  • Stealing a six-pack of Becks beer, worth £5, from Tesco in Hook Parade in November
  • Obstructing or resisting two police constables there
  • Behaving in a threatening, abusive or insulting manner towards a person at the shop
  • Racially abusing that person and a police constable
  • Failing to turn up to court for a hearing in December
  • Damaging a glass door panel worth £200 owned by Kingston Council, the day after the Tesco incident
  • Assaulted a police constable on the way into the cells at Kingston police station in December
  • A day later, was drunk and disorderly outside the police station in High Street
  • Failed to turn up to court for another December hearing
  • Was drunk and disorderly at Surbiton train station
     
  • Surrey Comet:

Thompson has been a thorn in the side of police for a long period of time. He was carried kicking and screaming from Surbiton station Sainsburys in June in front of startled onlookers after assaulting a store worker in the area behind the store.

June 23 2014: Shoplifter carried kicking and screaming from Surbiton Sainsbury's given prison time