AN ALCOHOLIC who tried to steal booze from a Tesco headbutted the glass door and told a shopworker "I will stick my fingers in your brain".

During the incident at the Poole Quay store Kamil Jan Malinowski also said to the employee he would "gouge your eyes out" and "I am going to kill you".

Malinowski was eventually arrested by police but days later he was ejected from the nearby Lord Nelson pub and detained by officers for being drunk and disorderly.

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The 39-year-old defendant appeared for sentencing at Bournemouth Crown Court having previous pleaded guilty to theft, criminal damage, using threatening or abusive or insulting words with intent to cause fear, drunk and disorderly behaviour, failing to surrender to custody having been released on bail and breach of a suspended sentence order.

Prosecuting, Lucy Conroy said Tesco staff watched on CCTV at around 3.15pm on December 7 as Malinowski tried to hide a two-litre bottle of alcohol down the front of his trousers.

He was confronted and handed the alcohol over and left the shop but returned a short time later in another attempt to steal alcohol.

Ms Conroy said the defendant was ushered to the doors of the store again when he became "aggressive" to a shopworker, "effectively offering him out for a fight".

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Once Malinowski was out of the shop, staff locked the doors behind him preventing anyone from entering.

The prosecutor said the defendant could be heard saying: "I will get you when you come out of the store. I am going to do you. I am going to kill you."

He went on to say: "I will stick my fingers in your brain and I will gouge your eyes out."

The court heard Malinowski was also headbutting and punching the glass doors.

In relation to the drunk and disorderly offence, police on patrol at Poole Quay were flagged down by members of the public outside the Lord Nelson.

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Malinowski, of Gardens View, Bournemouth, had been ejected from the pub because he was drunk and tried to consume his own alcohol at the bar.

The failing to surrender to custody was at Poole Magistrates' Court when the offender did not attend court on January 6.

The 12-month suspended sentence order he breached had been issued on November 26 last year – 11 days before the Tesco incident.

Rob Griffiths, mitigating, said his client's issues with alcohol were "at the root of the problem".

The barrister said the defendant apologises for his behaviour, adding that he "clearly need help with a proper group of people who know how to deal with alcoholics because that is what he is".

Judge Robert Pawson said it would not be unjust to active the suspended sentence order in the circumstances of the case.

He jailed the defendant for 12 months, with concurrent shorter sentences for the offences committed at Tesco.