{"id":208353,"date":"2025-06-23T18:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208353\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:44:10","slug":"man-is-caught-for-string-of-robberies-and-thefts-across-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/208353\/","title":{"rendered":"Man is caught for string of robberies and thefts across Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Parsons has pleaded guilty<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35 __className_7b2af9\">Annette Belcher<\/strong> Digital Publishing Editor<\/p>\n<p>18:17, 23 Jun 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0_ABR_BRISTOL_230625_parsons_01JPG.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>James Parsons appeared before magistrates<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">A man has pleaded guilty to committing a string of robberies and shop thefts across Bristol. James Parsons, 25, appeared before magistrates on Friday, June 20, after being charged with 13 offences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Parsons, of Kingsholm Road in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/southmead\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Southmead<\/a>, pleaded guilty to the following charges, which were all committed between February and June this year in <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/all-about\/clifton\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Clifton<\/a>, Eastville, Fishponds and St Werburgh\u2019s:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"UnorderedList_unordered-list__gzblI\">\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Two counts of robbery<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Two counts of attempted robbery<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">Seven counts of theft from a shop<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">One count of breaching a criminal behaviour order<\/li>\n<li class=\"sc-700e1ff3-0 VljCu\">And one count of criminal damage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">He was remanded by the court and will be sentenced on Thursday, July 24, at Bristol Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">PC Toby Downes said: \u201cParsons is a serial offender and has committed 12 of those offences in the past month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cHis arrest was made by plain-clothed police officers in Broadmead last week. This is an example of the proactive work we carry out that may not always be apparent because it did not initially involve uniformed officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">\u201cWe will always work tirelessly to bring offenders like Parsons before the courts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Parsons has pleaded guilty Annette Belcher Digital Publishing Editor 18:17, 23 Jun 2025 James Parsons appeared before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,18959,30,188,12894,393,12716,4884,10963,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-208353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-clifton","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-crime","13":"tag-eastville","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-fishponds","16":"tag-great-britain","17":"tag-southmead","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}