A drug-addict thief has been branded the ‘lowest of the low’ after stealing medication in a spate of city centre raids. Craig Darcey, 33, admitted to seven counts of theft by sneak-in at a range of Manchester city centre apartment blocks.
Darcey, of no fixed abode, would take parcels from communal post-room areas, Stockport Magistrates Court heard yesterday (April 3).
Originally set for a trial, Darcey could not remember carrying out the thefts, his solicitor Vic Wozny said, leading him to plead not guilty.
However, on the day he went before judges, he changed his plea to guilty. READ MORE: "It's an accident waiting to happen": Angry residents put up SPIKES to stop problem parking His offences took place across January and February of this year, prosecutor Gee Leung told Magistrate Marcia Moss.
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