A RELAPSED heroin addict stole £360 worth of meat from the same supermarket in a bid to pay for drugs.
Stuart Waters went into the Iceland store in the Triangle Shopping Centre in Frinton six times in February and March, a court heard.
On each occasion he grabbed a handful of meat and left without paying. He was traced when he was spotted getting into a car and police traced CCTV.
The 40-year-old, of Edith Road, Clacton, admitted six counts of theft when he appeared at Colchester Magistrates’ Court.
The court heard he had relapsed into heroin addiction after the death of a relative.
Waters was handed a year’s community order with 80 hours of unpaid work and costs of £145 and a £90 victim surcharge.
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