John Aurthur Silk pleaded guilty to stealing two mop buckets from Morrisons supermarket on April 8th, and to damaging the glass entrance door to a Ross-on-Wye store on May 1st, at Hereford Magistrates’s Court on June 13th.

Silk pleaded guilty to entering the supermarket as a trespasser and stealing the buckets worth £32. He also pleaded guilty to damaging the glass entrance door to Superdrug which was valued at £1,000.

Sentence has been deferred until December 12th with the expectation that he will not re-offend, will comply with Addaction and co-operate with the Probation Service and accept any assistance they provide.