Gardens | Doughnut Thief In Riots Jailed
A man who helped himself to doughnuts from a Krispy Kreme shop during riots in Manchester city centre has been jailed for 16 months.
Thomas Downey, 48, was released from HMP Manchester on 9 August shortly before getting caught up in the riots.
The serial offender went to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous before downing a bottle of sherry and stumbling into Krispy Kreme in Piccadilly Gardens.
He was caught with a box of doughnuts when 20 riot officers arrived.
Downey admitted burglary and breach of an Asbo by entering part of the city centre from which he is prohibited.
Judge Robert Atherton, sentencing at Manchester Crown Court, told him: “You drink too much, too regularly and when in drink become threatening and abusive.”
The total cost of damage to the shop – which was unsecured before Downey went in for the doughnuts – was about 17,000, prosecutors said.
The court heard he had more than 100 convictions for 233 offences and had been released from prison at 19:30 BST that day.
Zoe Nield, for Downey, said her client had left jail with only 4 in his pocket.
He was not involved in rioting
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