A serial shoplifter could be given the chance to turn his life around by the courts.
At Hamilton Sheriff Court this week, Mark McCutcheon appeared for sentencing having pleaded guilty to seven charges against him back in June.
Over 25 days, McCutcheon stole several items from four supermarkets in Wishaw, Newmains and Motherwell.
The court heard that on May 23, McCutcheon, of Allandale Avenue, Newarthill, went into the Morrisons store in Wishaw’s Kirk Road and stole a quantity of alcohol.
McCutcheon then stole booze from Asda in Newmains on May 26 before returning to Morrisons a day later and nicking more drink.
Two days later, on May 29, McCutcheon was back at Morrisons and back to stealing more alcohol from the supermarket.
On June 3, he turned his attention to the Tesco store in Wishaw’s Belhaven Road.
On that day, he stole electric toothbrushes and alcohol.
After a gap of several days, McCutcheon went to the Lidl store in Windmillhill Street in Motherwell and stole meat and yet more booze.
On the same date, the accused assaulted a Lidl employee by biting him on the body.
Charges that McCutcheon stole booze from the Morrisons store in Wishaw on May 24 and a quantity of meat from the Aldi supermarket in Motherwell were dropped by prosecutors.
In court this week, sentence was deferred on the 29-year-old until September 20 for a second stage Drug Treatment Testing Order (DTTO) to be carried out.
