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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Hannah Neale

Video tape thief hands himself in to police 25 years later

A man has handed himself in to police about 25 years after shoplifting two video tapes and leaving the ACT while on bail.

On Thursday, Peter Justin Hackett told magistrate Jane Campbell he was addicted to heroin at the time of the thefts in 1999, and "the only thing I do now is a little bit of weed".

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