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Preston man found drunk in stranger’s shed
Magistrates have fined a 45-year-old man from Preston £119 after he was found drunk in a stranger’s garden shed in Warwick Road, Carlisle.
As reported by The Cumberland News, Wayne Collett of Surrey Street, Preston, was found intoxicated in the stranger’s shed on 30 January, Carlisle’s Rickergate court heard.
During the court hearing, Collett admitted to being there to commit a theft. According to The Cumberland News, he also admitted to two charges of being drunk and disorderly; in Tesco the following morning, and in Penrith on 1 February.
The defendant was given an £85 fine and told to pay a £34 victim surcharge. Collett was prosecuted over the garden shed incident under the 1824 Vagrancy Act.