Shrewsbury thief assaulted man and stole vapes worth £4,200 and £400 electric scooter
A prolific thief who assaulted a man as well as stealing vapes worth more than £4,200 and a woman's electric scooter will be sentenced at crown court.
Macauley Smout, aged 27, targeted Esso in Harlescott Lane, Shrewsbury, nine times in less than three weeks in a spate of thefts throughout July, August and September this year.
He stole vapes on eight of those occasions, and Fairy Liquid, washing powder, coffee and sweets worth £57 on the other.
He also stole a woman's black Xiaomi M365 scooter worth £400 in Shrewsbury on July 8, and £77 of meat from Lidl in Whitchurch Road, Harlescott on September 18.
Smout, of no fixed abode, also assaulted a man in Shrewsbury on September 13. He pleaded guilty at Kidderminster Magistrates Court to 11 counts of theft, one of common assault and three breaches of a criminal behaviour order. Two of those were due to aggressive behaviour, and the other was for entering an area he was banned from.
He was remanded in custody, to be sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court on October 17.