A shoplifter who was banned from shopping anywhere except Runcorn Shopping City and his local store is back in prison only a fortnight after his last release.
Dominic Lyons, 26, of no fixed abode, but most recently living on Fenwick Lane in Halton Lodge, pleaded guilty on Monday to three counts of theft and breaching a Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO).
Lyons was last sent down on January 12 when he was jailed for six months for shoplifting offences.
Police revealed on April 13 that Lyons had been released under stricter CBO conditions that banned him from entering any retail premises in Runcorn except at shops within Shopping City and the Premier Store in Halton Lodge, and from concealing any item prior to payment at any retail premises in Cheshire.
He was stealing again within 10 days.
At North Cheshire Magistrates’ Court in Warrington on Monday, Lyons admitted stealing beef joints from Heron Foods on Linkway last Friday, April 23; three Fairy liquid pods from the same shop the next day; and about £19 of meat from Co-op on Grangeway on Saturday, and breaching his CBO.
He was jailed for six months and ordered to pay compensation.
Lyons's CBO was imposed in April 2019 to last for five years.
Breaching a CBO carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.
The orders were introduced in 2014 as a replacement for Anti-Social Behaviour Orders on conviction and the Drinking Banning Orders and are intended to deter persistent crime.
