Serial offender calls an end to court hearing so he can eat pizza
A SERIAL offender stunned magistrates when he called an end to his hearing by saying: “I’ll have to get off, I have a pizza waiting.”
Andrew Bell, 44, who has a long history of committing crimes because he prefers being in prison, was appearing in court via video link from jail.
He grinned during the hearing before thanking the magistrates for sentencing him to seven days over an unpaid fine.
He then told them he had to go because his dinner was ready.
Bell, who has almost 200 convictions, got two weeks’ jail in January for failing to pay a year-old fine of £250.
He was already serving ten weeks for assaulting a cop and damaging a police van.
In May, he was jailed for 20 months for anti-social behaviour at the bus station in Carlisle, Cumbria. It was said he often asks to be arrested.
At a previous court hearing his lawyer John Smith explained: “He doesn’t have an agreed address, gets sent to prison, gets released with nowhere to go, and then goes into the city centre to call police.
“He then tells them, ‘Hello, I’m Andrew Bell, I’m in breach of my criminal behaviour order, so can you come and arrest me?’”
Most of his offences have been for being drunk or disorderly behaviour. One judge branded him “the city’s worst nuisance”.
Bell was given his latest sentence by magistrates in Carlisle.
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