A prolific offender who spent the money on a card robbed from a man by a convicted murderer will soon be released.
James Harrington, 38, was captured on CCTV in a takeaway using the card robbed from a man outside a petrol station by convicted murderer Aiden Ramsdale.
Ramsdale was handed a sentence of life imprisonment with a minimum term of 33 years for the brutal murder of Bradley Wall. Bradley's "ISIS-style" murder happened on June 23 last year - just 10 days after the violent robbery. Read the full story here.
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Leeds Crown Court heard on Wednesday that the man was at the petrol station at around 10.40pm on June 13 buying sunflower oil when the "unpleasant incident" took place. Prosecutor Michael Morley said: "He used the cash machine and was set upon by a group of four men - they having used a distraction, asking why he was talking to a woman that he was not even speaking to.
"He was set upon in the doorway of the petrol station shop...He was held down and his pockets searched. One of the men kicked him in the stomach."
Some of the men were identified in an identity parade but Harrington was identified after police spotted him using the man's bank card on CCTV in a takeaway. He was arrested on September 6.
Mr Morley told the court that as well as fraud, Harrington also fell to be sentenced for failing to comply with the notification requirements under the Sexual Offences Act - for the 17th time. Harrington had bee convicted in 2015 for six counts of making indecent images and had failed to comply with the notification requirements by telling a court of a change of his bail address - but not the police.
He was also in court charged with going equipped and interference of a vehicle after he was observed by police trying to open a car door. His Honour Judge Batty said: "He was in possession of a device designed to shatter glass to allow you to take things from cars."
The judge jailed him for a total of 22 weeks, but as Harrington has spent 189 days on remand in custody already, he will be released shortly.
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