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Jail for car thief who broke order
A NOTORIOUS troublemaker banned from Portsmouth car parks for a spate of vehicle thefts has now been jailed.
Christopher Walker will serve three months in prison after failing to turn up for unpaid work four times last month.
The 25-year-old, from Sackville Street, Southsea, broke a community order imposed by the courts for stealing from a vehicle on September 20 last year.
Walker was sentenced after admitting the breach at Portsmouth Magistrates' Court.
Magistrates said the step was necessary as Walker showed a 'flagrant disregard for court orders.'
He also pleaded guilty to breaking a curfew on two occasions - on January 3 and January 12 - by not being at his address. But no separate penalty was imposed for the breach.
It comes just two months after Walker was banned from every car park on Portsea Island for five years after being given an anti-social behaviour order in an unprecedented move by the courts.
Posters emblazoned with his photograph and containing details of the order have been plastered across car parks on the island.
Police applied for the Anti-Social Behaviour Order after Walker was convicted of eight charges of theft from vehicles, three charges of interference with vehicles and one count of criminal damage.
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