A CARLISLE thief has been jailed again by magistrates and told that his offending is causing “an awful lot of aggravation” for city shopkeepers.

Late last year, 29-year-old Kane David Queen was handed a five-year criminal behaviour order (CBO).

This banned Queen from entering three city supermarkets and all stores affiliated to Carlisle’s shopwatch scheme.

He has flouted the terms of this CBO several times since then, and admitted another breach — by going into a B&M Bargains outlet when banned — in front of magistrates last Friday.

Queen was granted conditional bail and told to re-attend court next month.

But in the meantime he stole from a number of stores at the St Nicholas Gate retail park, off London Road, on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

Queen also pinched vodka from ASDA and stole two socket sets with a total value of £235 during separate visits to Halfords.

“The defendant was challenged on this occasion,” said prosecutor George Shelley as Queen was brought back before Carlisle Magistrates’ Court on Friday. “He has dropped the socket set, which was recovered.”

Queen had earlier snatched a Bold gel twin pack from a B&M store, on October 10.

In court, Queen, of Lindisfarne Street, Carlisle, admitted a total of five thefts and three criminal behaviour order breaches. Some stolen items had been recovered after he was detained by store staff, but a number could not be re-sold.

Magistrates heard Queen had been using cocaine after a traumatic bereavement. “He fully admitted the offences,” Mr Shelley said of Queen’s police interview. “He has done so with the intention of funding a drug lifestyle.”

Ant Wilson, defending, said a drug debt which Queen ran up had since been settled.

Queen had latterly been recalled to custody on licence, and was told by magistrates that a 12-week jail term they were imposing for his latest offending would be tacked on, consecutively.

Lead magistrate Alan Cottingham told Queen: “You have been been given a CBO and you really have treated it as if it were just a piece of paper and it had no effect at all.

“Because of that, Carlisle shopkeepers, shops, have had to put up with an awful lot of aggravation.”

“This is persistent,” Mr Cottingham added of the offending. “There has got to come a time when you put a stop to it.”

After the CBO was imposed last December, PC Heidi Underwood, of Cumbria police, had said: “This order was a great outcome and is a useful tool to place restrictions on Queen to prevent further criminality and help protect business owners and local residents.

“I would encourage anyone who witnesses the terms of such a court order being broken to contact the police immediately.”