Bath man jailed for 12 months for drug and shoplifting offences

A Bath man has been jailed for a year by magistrates for drug-dealing and a series of shoplifting offences, mainly at TX Maxx in the centre of the city.

William Delahunty, of Grosvenor Place at Lambridge, appeared in custody at Bath Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday 3rd December.

A warrant without bail had been ordered by the court after he failed to attend a scheduled hearing on 17th November.

The most serious of the 12 charges – all of which the 34-year-old admitted – was that on 20th September at Islington in London, he was in possession of a quantity of the Class B drug MDMB-4en-PINACA, a synthetic cannabinoid, with intent to supply.

He was jailed for 12 months. Magistrates ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the drug.

All the jail sentences that Delahunty received for the following crimes will run concurrently.

• The theft of two polo shirts, two baseball caps and two bumbags worth £129.96 from TK Maxx on 20th May (eight weeks).
• The theft of two bumbags, a handbag and a hairdryer worth £89.97 belonging to TK Maxx on 22nd May (eight weeks).
• Stealing five T-shirts worth £199.95 from TK Maxx on 27th May (eight weeks).
• Shoplifting headphones and perfume totalling £43.97 from TK Maxx on 9th June (eight weeks).
• The theft of four handbags worth £239.96 from TK Maxx on 10th September (eight weeks).
• On 15th September failing to surrender to custody at Bath Magistrates’ Court, having been released on bail in criminal proceedings on 18th August (two weeks).
• Stealing two coats worth £279.98 from TK Maxx on 25th September (eight weeks).
• The theft on 1st November of six cashmere jumpers worth £750 belonging to Marks & Spencer in Stall Street in Bath (eight weeks).
• On 17th November failing to surrender to custody at Bath Magistrates’ Court having been released on bail in criminal proceedings on 7th October at Bristol Magistrates’ Court (two weeks).
• Stealing a coat worth £99.99 from TK Maxx on 18th November (eight weeks).
• Attempting to steal two raincoats worth £219.99 each belonging to Mountain Warehouse in Stall Street on 2nd December (eight weeks).

A further charge that on 1st November he had gone equipped for theft in Bath by having a pair of wire cutters with him was withdrawn by the Crown Prosecution Service.