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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