AN ABUSIVE thief has been handed a suspended sentence after breaching the requirements of his community order.
Hazara Bhakar was convicted of one count of failing to comply with the requirements of a community order when he appeared before magistrates in June.
The court heard from the probation service that the 62-year-old had failed to attend appointments as required on January 24 and April 22 and further failed to provide acceptable evidence within five working days.
He had been made subject to the order after he was convicted of three offences in September 2024.
The court heard he had used threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour, causing harassment, alarm, or distress, to two women in Hereford on June 5 last year, and had stolen a bottle of alcohol worth £6.99 from a shop in Hereford on June 30 last year.
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He had also used threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to cause a person to believe that unlawful violence would be used against them at Cardiff Central railway station on September 6, magistrates in Cardiff heard.
The community order, which had been made by magistrates in September, was revoked, and Bhakar was resentenced for the original offences.
Magistrates said that only a custodial sentence could be justified as Bhakar had shown a “wilful and persistent” failure to comply with his community order.
Bhakar, who gave the court an address in Bute Street, Cardiff, was handed an eight-week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.