A HOMELESS man who breached a suspended sentence just 20 days after the order was made has been sentenced.

Nikrolay Nikolaev appeared before Mold Crown Court for sentencing on Monday, October 28, faced with a shoplifting charge and a breach of a suspended sentence order.

No prosecution or defence barristers were present during the hearing and Judge Niclas Parry read out the facts of the case. 

On September 26, the 33-year-old appeared before Wrexham Magistrates Court where he admitted to having stole alcohol worth £16.15 from Co-op in Lord Street, Wrexham three days earlier.

That put Nikolaev in breach of a Crown Court suspended sentence imposed just 20 days earlier for an assault.

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Requirements of the suspended sentence included alcohol abstinence, Judge Parry said.

Judge Parry sentenced Nikolaev to six weeks in jail for the shoplifting offence, but, as he had been on remand since September 25, that meant that he had already served that time in jail.

As such, Judge Parry decided to extend the suspended sentence period from 18 months to 20 months. 

Addressing Nikolaev, who appeared via video-link from HMP Berwyn, the judge said: "I have to make this suspended sentence more onerous. You will have to go to the probation office in Wrexham to get the tag (alcohol monitoring) fitted straight away."

Judge Parry added: "This suspended sentence is still alive and is going to be hanging over you now for 20 months."

Nikolaev was also ordered to pay an administrative fee of £154 to be paid within three months.