A MAN with 175 convictions for dishonesty has been jailed once again.
Stephen Mattox, aged 41, of Lord Street, Blaenau Ffestiniog, admitted three shoplifting offences committed in the town.
He was jailed for 16 weeks at a special weekend court at Llandudno.
He’d stolen items worth £50 from McColl’s and two pairs of sunglasses, subsequently recovered, from an optician’s.
Court chairman David Subbachi told him that with 175 previous offences the latest were so serious that only custody was appropriate.
When released from prison Mattox must pay £250 in costs and compensation.
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