A MAN has admitted stealing televisions from tips - but denied a number of similar offences.
Chigozie Edmunds appeared at Worcester Magistrates Court and for the first time gave pleas to a number of offences.
Standing in the dock of courtroom two the 31-year-old admitted two charges of theft by finding - the stealing of televisions from a Severn Waste Services run tip in Worcester on March 8 and June 12.
Edmunds also admitted driving a BMW without a licence or insurance, that offence being committed in Cotswold Way, Worcester, on June 12.
The court clerk then put to him 14 charges of theft by finding, all of television from tips, Edmonds denying all those charges.
The televisions are alleged by the prosecution to have been stolen from tips in Worcester, Stourport, Pershore and Malvern between March 16 and June 14 this year.
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Edmunds, of no fixed abode but who has a care of address of Chestnut Grange, Offenham, also denied an offence of racially/religiously aggravated intentional harassment/alarm/distress.
That offence is alleged to have taken place at Bilford Road Recycling Centre on June 12 this year.
Owen Beale, prosecuting, explained it was the prosecution's case Edmonds stole televisions after going to the tips, taking them out of containers.
The prosecutor added the alleged public order matter came after Edmonds was challenged by staff.
At the end of the hearing Chris Mitchell, the chairman of the magistrates bench, asked Edmunds to stand telling him he would face an afternoon trial at Worcester Magistrates Court on November 28.
The chairman added Edmunds would continue to have bail which included the one condition he could not enter any waste and recycling centre in Worcestershire.
Edmonds asked if the bail meant Worcestershire, the chairman replying "yes, the county not the city".
The case was heard at the court on Thursday, (September 16).
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