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14th Oct 2014

Thief banned from every pub in London for 25 years

This takes the term ‘getting barred’ to a whole new level...

Oisin Collins

This takes the term ‘getting barred’ to a whole new level…

A sneaky thief in London has been handed down a one-of-a-kind sentence will see the man in question being barred from every single pub, nightclub, restaurant and hotel bar located in London, for the next 25 years.

That means a whopping 35,000 establishments will be off limits to the thief. Did you hear what we said? That’s thirty five THOUSAND bars…

Rodney Williams, 34, was given the unique Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) earlier this week and it will mean that he’ll be nearly 60-years-old before he can have a scoop in his local London pub.

According to The Daily Star, Williams was handed his ASBO after he admitted to 12 counts of theft and one count of theft by finding in Snaresbrook Crown Court, London.

Speaking about the sentence, Chief Inspector Ian Simpkins, from Hackney Police, said: “This is an excellent result which has seen a prolific thief receive a suitably restrictive ASBO.”

Via The Daily Star

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