A HARROGATE man who came to York in a car with false number plates to steal from two supermarkets has been handed a five year jail sentence.
Ryan Mulvaney, 42, was sentenced for 16 offences at York Crown Court on Tuesday. The court heard Mulvaney and another man had driven to York on November 19 last year, and stole a £500 TV from Tesco at Clifton Moor, and a £400 coffee machine from Tesco at Askham Bar. They were arrested the same day, and the goods recovered.
The Tesco thefts came towards the end of a six month crime spate which included a burglaries at a home in Harrogate, dangerous driving, handling stolen goods and fraud, and stealing meat from shops and cash from a cafe in Harrogate.
Sentencing him, Judge Andrew Stubbs QC, said Mulvaney had wasted half his life in crime and increasingly lengthy prison sentences, and this raft of offences all led back to his addiction to Class A drugs. Judge Stubbs sentenced him separately for the house burglaries, shops thefts, and a dangerous driving offence, together adding up to five years in prison.
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