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
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
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