Sunday 8 September 2013

One-Man Crime Wave On Police Hit-List Jailed For Park Mugging


A prolific drug-addict offender – targeted by police in east London – is starting a twelve-month sentence for mugging two boys of £10 in a local park.
Steven Harris, 41, of Marston Road, Ilford was on the Operation Topple hit-list, a Metropolitan Police initiative aimed at the “most harmful” criminals.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard the defendant approached the terrified boys in the park near South Woodford Cricket Club in Highfield Road at 5.20pm on June 16 demanding cash and threatening violence. 

Harris was arrested on 20 June after Operation Topple investigations and was charged with robbery. 

Detective Inspector Craig Robinson from Ilford Police said: “Harris is a prolific drug addicted offender, who has rightly been targeted because of his offending.
“This offence - stealing money from children - shows the lengths that addicts will go to feed their habit and has resulted in this term of imprisonment.
“I would urge anybody with an addiction, to seek treatment rather than turn to crime”. 

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