Two days after receiving a two-week suspended jail term, drunken David Valencia had downed sherry on his way into a court building – and ended up in prison.
Last Monday the sherry-loving pensioner, aged 68, notched up offence 449 when he admitted stealing a bottle of QC from a Spar store.
But he appeared before the same district judge again, this time at Caernarfon, after turning up at the law courts to see his solicitor and falling asleep in a seat.
Drinking in public had put him in breach of a criminal behaviour order, which he admitted.
District judge Gerallt Jones said Valencia, of Newry Street, Holyhead, had an “appalling” record.
The suspended sentence was activated with another fortnight in custody, to be served consecutively, for the new offence.
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