A MAN has been jailed for more than eight months for a spate of offending in Bournemouth and Poole.
James Bearn was put behind bars after admitting two charges of possession of a knife, two counts of criminal damage, two charges of assault, resisting a police constable, attempted theft and using threatening or abusive words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour.
The 41-year-old was sentenced at a Poole Magistrates’ Court hearing on November 14.
The court heard that on August 29 the defendant damaged a bench in the area of the tennis courts in Central Gardens, Bournemouth. Two days later he attempted to steal three boxes of pens worth £300 from WH Smith in Falkland Square, Poole.
His offending continued on October 14, Bearn, of no fixed abode, assaulted a man in Bournemouth Gardens. Four days later he assaulted another man at the BH2 leisure complex.
On October 22 he damaged a glass door at Greggs in Falkland Square and resisting PC Johnson-Byrnes a constable in the execution of his duty.
Bearn’s offending concluded on November 2 in Christchurch Road, Bournemouth, when he committed two offences of possession of a knife and the public order matter.
A deputy district judge committed the defendant to prison for 36 weeks. The defendant was also required to pay a £187 surcharge and the knives were to be forfeited and destroyed.
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