Prolific crook Liam Ellison has been banned from the parts of the city he plagued.
The 33-year-old has been handed a Criminal Behaviour Order which forbids him from setting foot in every shop in Sunderland city centre, after being arrested 167 times.
It was reported that Ellison spat on one shopworker and headbutted another after attempting to shoplift from a store in the Bridges Shopping Centre, on August 16.