A woman given a suspended jail sentence at Bristol Crown Court earlier this month for dangerous driving has appeared at Bath Magistrates’ Court to admit a charge of shoplifting.
Harriet Attinger, 33, was in court on Monday 17th November charged with theft from Sally Beauty in Bath.
The court heard she had been caught on CCTV on 23rd April stealing items worth £89.11, including hair conditioner, nail polish, hair grips and earrings.
Prosecutor Paul Kelly told magistrates that Attinger had recently received a 27-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, for a dangerous driving offence on 3rd April.
At her Crown Court hearing, Attinger was banned from driving for 12 months and must do an extended re-test before she is allowed behind the wheel again. She was also convicted of possession of a Class A controlled drug.
She is currently being supervised by the Probation Service.
Defending Attinger, who has previous convictions for more than 30 offences, solicitor Bradley Axam told magistrates that she had been sentenced in August for a theft in May (stealing items worth £95.65 from the Co-op in Southdown) and the offence of shoplifting from Sally Beauty pre-dated that.
He suggested that the two offences should have been dealt with together by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), and his client, who has ADHD, is “remorseful” and wants a “clean slate” and to move forward.
Magistrates fined Attinger £120 and ordered her to pay compensation of £89.11 to Sally Beauty. She was also ordered to pay £85 prosecution costs and a £48 victim surcharge.
The court heard that Attinger has three separate fines accounts with the courts and owes more than £4,000 in total. These will now be consolidated.
Attinger’s address was listed on the charge sheet as Gay Street in Bath, but the court heard she is currently living in a different county.
Attinger told the magistrates: “I hope to get a job soon.”
The chair of the bench told her: “Be good, we don’t want to see you again.”
