It was the third time he had committed such an offence
A cocaine addict brazenly stole items from three different employers during the space of two years in a desperate bid to pay off his out-of-control drug debt. Jamie Hawksworth had already twice been spared prison after two earlier similar offences but his luck finally ran out when he breached a suspended sentence just a couple of months after it had been imposed.
He had been given a “golden opportunity” to avoid prison but he threw it away because he needed quick and easy money, Hull Crown Court heard. Hawksworth, 35, of Hull Road, Hemingbrough, near Howden, admitted an offence of theft by employee on May 21 last year.