A prolific crook who was allowed to keep his freedom earlier this year despite having 337 convictions to his name has now been caught stealing.
As previously reported on Chroniclelive, Craig Nicholson was a patient at Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary but was found by a nurse to be carrying a 10inch knife. In April, the 43-year-old was given a final chance by a judge at Newcastle Crown Court to stay out of trouble when he was handed a 21-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for possessing a bladed article.
But the career criminal, who has been committing offences for more than 20 years and has an appalling record that stretches to at least 56 pages on the police national computer, proved he's not yet ready to change his spots when he was caught stealing goods from Tesco and Boots.
