The thief behind a one-man crimewave across Essex and Norfolk could not be sentenced on Thursday because magistrates failed to provide the right paperwork.
Felix Ive was beamed into Basildon Crown Court via prison video link to face sentence for a spree of burglaries, thefts and criminal damage episodes.
The 20-year-old, formerly of Low Street, Norwich, was listed for sentence for 19 offences committed over three months.
The offences were:
March 4 – Theft of Marshall ear buds and portable speaker from John Lewis in Chelmsford.
March 4 – Fraudulently misrepresenting himself as the owner of the electronics in order to sell them on.
March 5 – Theft of Marshall and Bose portable speakers from John Lewis in Chelmsford.
March 5 – Fraudulently claiming to own the electronics in order to sell them on.
March 11 – Criminal damage to two windows at Liverpool Street train station, owned by Network Rail, estimated at £7,000 to £7,500.
March 13 – Having provided a sample which indicated the presence of cocaine and opioids, failing to attend an assessment appointment.
March 18 – Burglary with intent to steal at a One Stop shop in Norwich.
March 19 – Breaking into The Pearl Dragon, a Chinese restaurant on Eastern Esplanade, Southend, and stealing beer.
March 21/22 – Burglary with intent to steal at Phone Zone in Eastwood Road, Rayleigh.
March 22 – Burglary with intent to steal at a Co op store in Westcliff.
March 22 – Going equipped to steal in Westcliff by carrying a metal wrench.
March 24 – Another burglary with intent to steal at Phone Zone in Rayleigh.
March 27 – Shoplifting a crate of Carlsberg beer from Iceland in Southend.
April 4 – Shoplifting £956 worth of electronics from John Lewis in Norwich.
April 5 – Causing criminal damage to a window at John Lewis in Norwich.
April 14 – Criminal damage to a cash machine in Southend.
May 15 – Shoplifting £179 worth of alcohol from Morrisons on Albion Way, Norwich.
May 17 – Shoplifting miscellaneous items from B&M in Cromer.
May 23 – Shoplifting meat and headphones worth £126 from Morrisons in Albion Way, Norwich.
A June hearing over the Pearl Dragon break-in was told Ive had been street homeless at the time of his offending in Southend in March.
Judge Samantha Cohen said she hoped the court would take a “sensible” approach to the defendant, who had been a young man clearly “in crisis”.
By June, the hearing was told, he had moved back in with his family in Norfolk, got a job in a kitchen and was communicating with mental health services.
Judge Cohen asked that any outstanding matters in the magistrates’ courts be committed to Basildon Crown for sentence, so his entire cluster of offences could be dealt with in one go.
By the time his sentencing came around on Thursday, he was back on remand, although the reason for that was not made clear.
Judge John Bristow said he was unable to proceed with the sentencing because magistrates had failed to provide the court records for all the cases he was expected to sentence Ive over.
“I’m not clear what matters Mr Ive is lawfully here for,” he said.
The hearing was postponed to November 5.
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