Serial criminal avoids jail term
A teenager who has been described by police as the "scourge" of Whiteway has narrowly avoided returning to prison.
Christopher Marks, 19, of Haycombe Drive, has clocked up 86 convictions since he started getting into trouble with police at the age of 12.
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Last month he was jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty to criminal damage and breaching a suspended prison sentence.
In the latest case he admitted taking a Honda moped on September 4.
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He was charged while in prison, after DNA evidence was confirmed by police, and was back at Bath Magistrates' Court at the end of last week. The court heard that Marks had been working well with his probation officer and magistrates said this was the reason why he had been spared prison this time.
Marks was given a 13-week prison sentence suspended for six months, a curfew, an electronic tag and told to pay £100 compensation.
Comments
by TeabagTerry
Friday, October 26 2012, 12:20PM
“Should have thrown away the key.”
by AbandonShip
Friday, October 26 2012, 8:16AM
“Here is someone who has the potential to soak up tens, probably hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer's money in social service time, policing, court and solicitor's fees and no doubt in the future as a guest of Her Majesty. It is so utterly depressing, when you think that when he was born, he also had the potential to become a good citizen who contributed to society and made something of his life. But it seems that things went badly wrong very early. It would be fantastic to see such a character reformed, but how?”
by DaveF_Walcot
Friday, October 26 2012, 3:00AM
“Why aren't his parents in the dock?”
by jezer
Thursday, October 25 2012, 11:23PM
“Well, the courts have failed again, especially to the criminal. How can he be expected to mend his ways without a sharp message, both to him and to society?”