Treatment order after a string of crimes in Worthing

A HOMELESS man has been ordered to seek help for the alcohol problems which magistrates believe are responsible for a string of crimes.
By The Newsroom
Published 31st Mar 2009, 16:27 BST
Updated 8th Jun 2018, 00:57 BST

Adrian Parsons, 41, appeared at Worthing Magistrates' Court on Monday, March 30, to be sentenced for drunk and disorderly behaviour, possessing a knife, two counts of failing to answer bail, threatening behaviour and theft.

He admitted all the offences.

He was was given a 13-week suspended sentence for carrying a knife in Grafton Place, Worthing, on January 31; a four-week suspended sentence for the theft of a fire extinguisher from the Central Clinic in Stoke Abbott Road on February 12; and a four-week suspended sentence for the two bail act offences.

All the suspended sentences will run concurrently.

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The conditions of his sentence were that he be placed under supervision for a year and attend at least 12 alcohol treatment sessions.

Parsons received no separate sentence for being drunk and disorderly or using threatening behaviour.

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