A NUISANCE repeat offender with a history of shoplifting has been jailed for 16 weeks after he smashed a window at a drug rehab centre.

Justin Wynn, 44, was jailed for 16 weeks at Kidderminster Magistrates Court on Tuesday after a court lost patience with his latest anti-social antics.

The 44-year-old of no fixed abode, but with links to Worcester, was jailed when a suspended sentence for shoplifting ( three offences) was activated after he smashed a window at Cranstoun near Worcester Police Station, Castle Street, on Monday.

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Cranstoun Worcestershire works to support those over 18 who are struggling with their alcohol or drug intake. 

Wynn is also subject to a criminal behaviour order (CBO) which was imposed in April 2021 and is due to run until April 2024. 

We have previously reported on Wynn's persistent shoplifting - including stealing £39.99 of fragrances from TK Maxx in Worcester on November 11 last year and  stealing £63.39 from Home Bargains in Worcester before assaulting the store manager and resisting arrest when police arrived on December 16 last year. 

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By the terms of the CBO, designed to curb antisocial and criminal behaviour, he is prohibited from: entering Sainsbury's or the garage in Windermere Drive in Worcester and urinating in public.

He must not refuse to leave a premises or area when asked to do so by someone in authority including the Worcester Soup Kitchen which is run by volunteers.

DS Kris Stevens, South Worcestershire Integrated Offender Management, said: "We are still trying to work with Justin to identify factors we can improve in his life to prevent his reoffending. He is very much a work in progress. We have invested a lot of time through the Integrated Offender Management team to keep him from reoffending but Justin now needs to make that decision.

"We hope his time in prison will enable him to come around and think he would rather spend his life outside the prison walls. In the meantime, we have protective measures in place. We have got orders around him, including the criminal behaviour order, to protect the communities and shops he is consistently causing harassment to."

Wynn was jailed in a crime spree in April before returning to Worcester Magistrates Court in May to admit public order offences. 

We reported in June how Wynn was being taken to Worcestershire Royal Hospital for a self-inflicted head injury and, while outside waiting to be taken in, Wynn had become agitated, kicking the perspex screen of a police van's cage, smashing it. 

Wynn was jailed in April for the crime spree which included criminal damage in which he set off a fire extinguisher in Mother Hubbard's Fish and Chip shop.