A prolific Newcastle thief broke an elderly grandmother's hip after knocking her over on a zebra crossing days before Christmas.
Liam Carty was running towards a shopping trolley he'd filled full of stolen goods from a B&M store on December 18, 2021, when he ran into the 80-year-old woman and knocked her to the ground. The grandmother fractured her hip and had to lie in agony on the freezing cold ground for almost two hours before she was put into an ambulance.
Drug addicted Carty had stolen an Xbox and games from a South Shields store earlier in the day, before going on to commit another shop theft after running away from the scene of where he injured the pensioner. The 30-year-old appeared at Newcastle Crown Court on Wednesday and was jailed for inflicting grievous bodily harm, theft, burglary, and failing to attend court.
