Local Troublemaker Flouts Booze Ban And Starts 21 Month Sentence

A notorious drunken thug, banned from every licensed premises in two London boroughs, is starting a twenty-one month prison sentence after miserably failing to obey the disqualification.

Fletcher Stallard, 24, who has sixty-eight previous convictions and is infamous in the boroughs of Merton and Sutton, where the ban still exists for nearly three more years, smirked as the court detailed his incidents of foul-mouthed anti-social behaviour.

In August last year Merton Police successfully applied for a Criminal Behaviour Order, (CBO) banning him from the pubs, clubs, bars and off-licenses of the two boroughs, plus a prohibition on buying alcohol in supermarkets.

It also includes a ban on putting people in fear of violence and drinking alcohol in public.

He appeared at Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court via videolink from HMP Wormwood Scrubs where Judge Stephen John told him: "This is a staggering amount of offences for someone of your age."

Stallard was sentenced for breaching the Criminal Behaviour Order and a suspended prison sentence.

One offence was committed on a nightbus, which he boarded without paying, before missing his stop near Morden Station.

This triggered more anti-social behaviour, breaching the CBO and the court heard he shouted at the driver: "Stop the bus you f***ing bitch."

The account drew grins from Stallard on the videolink and Judge John told the repeat offender: "I see that is causing you some amusement. I assure you it doesn't cause me any."

Stallard was also caught stealing a bottle of vodka from a local supermarket, claiming it was under duress as he owed £2,000 to a loan shark and was obeying his orders.

"I didn't come down with the last shower," said the judge, dismissing the account. "It is manifestly implausible and false.

"You have a bad record for violence and public order offences and the bus incident is aggravated because it was at night and the driver was restricted in the cab."

The court heard Stalled has repeatedly flouted Anti-Social Behaviour Orders; curfews; community orders; conditional discharges and suspended prison sentences.

"This is repeat offending, there are a history of breaches. It is time, with your dreadful record, you served a custodial sentence."