Bath magistrates have fined a man who damaged a pillow in a cell at Keynsham Police Centre.
Keynsham Police Centre
Ben Badman, 25, who gave his address at the hearing on Monday 15th December as the Julian House shelter in Bath, pleaded guilty to causing criminal damage while locked up on 27th October.
The prosecutor said that Badman had difficulty getting comfortable and that the pillows in the cells are “not the most comfortable”. He had unpicked the outer sleeve and settled down with the inner part.
Badman was not charged with anything as a result of his stay in custody, other than the damage to the pillow, which was unusable afterwards.
He was fined £40 and told to pay the police £45 compensation for the pillow. He was also ordered to pay a surcharge of £16 but not prosecution costs.
The amount will be consolidated with the £3,700 still outstanding from his previous convictions, with deductions coming out of Badman’s benefits.
Badman was then back at the magistrates’ court two days later to admit an outstanding offence that on 17th July at Cardiff he was in possession of 3.59 grams of spice, a Class B drug.
District Judge Lynne Matthews, who was sitting on Wednesday 17th December, ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drug. She fined Badman £140 and ordered him to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £56 surcharge.
