Charity box thief is let off

9:00pm Friday 27th April 2012 in News

Stuart Webb Stuart Webb

Calne serial offender Stuart Webb, who avoided serious punishment when he stole a Poppy Appeal box, has slipped his way out of trouble once again.

Homeless Webb, 25, sickened the county’s veterans when he stole the box from the Murco filling station on Oxford Road.

The junkie, whose grandfather served in the Army, committed the offence minutes before most people were falling silent on Remembrance Day in respect of our fallen heroes.

After admitting the theft, as well as a burglary and a theft from a building site, he escaped with just a community order and small fine.

But he was back in front of Chippenham magistrates on Friday for failing to comply with that order.

He was originally due at court last Tuesday but failed to appear.

A statement read out on behalf of the probation service said, while he had been making progress with his drug rehabilitation meetings, he had failed to show up for a number of them.

Magistrates chose merely to add three extra employment and education sessions to the end of his current community order.

They even declined to make him pay the £40 court costs, citing that it was unrealistic to make him pay as he already owes the court nearly £1,000 in fines and compensation from previous convictions.

Comments(13)

commonasmuck says...
9:51pm Fri 27 Apr 12

Unbelieveable!!!!!!!
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Granti says...
9:54pm Fri 27 Apr 12

Wow! That'll teach him a lesson eh?
Crime Pays in Wiltshire folks!

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Yer Tis says...
2:06am Sat 28 Apr 12

And once again thsi shows why people have ZERO faith in this countries judicial system

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jezercalne says...
8:50am Sat 28 Apr 12

The court has failed everyone, not least the offender. How will he ever improve his ways without being jolted out of his lifestyle by a serious punishment?

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WR950 says...
8:28pm Sat 28 Apr 12

The justice system in this country is broken.

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jezercalne says...
8:52pm Sat 28 Apr 12

Why can't offenders be locked up to protect the public?

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who dat? says...
8:54pm Sun 29 Apr 12

If he is a genuine junkie he should simply od , curl up and die!!!!

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frosch says...
7:30am Mon 30 Apr 12

fining him is a waste of time he has no money, he steals to pay for his habit , he should be locked up as an alternative

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notscot says...
6:33pm Mon 30 Apr 12

frosch wrote:
fining him is a waste of time he has no money, he steals to pay for his habit , he should be locked up as an alternative
Guidelines are.... Don't lock 'em up if they have an illness. Drug addiction is an illness, these days.
The fact that they rob to feed the "illness" is just an indictment of society, unimportant as a stand-alone issue.
The illness makes the robbing ratbags the victims, these days.

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well oill beef hooked says...
9:35pm Mon 30 Apr 12

His parents must be so proud!!

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Harold Shand says...
8:33am Tue 1 May 12

What goes around, comes around. How many people like this make it into their forties?

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ginger29 says...
4:56pm Tue 1 May 12

so a junkie can go and lift money from a charity and get away with it, i need to pay rent and bills do you think that the court will let me off. takes the P**s it really does. and then they wounder why people dont give to charity anymore as people like him nick it before it gets to the poor charity.......

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nameless_guy says...
12:47pm Thu 3 May 12

**** hate people.

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