{"id":478488,"date":"2025-10-06T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478488\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:43:22","slug":"jail-for-serial-bristol-thief-who-smashed-his-way-through-shop-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/478488\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail for serial Bristol thief who smashed his way through shop window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Connors broke through a glass door as he fled from a store<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">The moment a prolific shoplifter smashed his way through a shop door has been revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">Jeremiah Connors, of Bishopsworth, admitted to multiple thefts and criminal damage carried out over August and September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">The 30-year-old was captured on CCTV smashing through the front door of a shop in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">Connors was arrested by Bristol Neighbourhood Policing Team officers following a series of thefts from supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">He was later charged with five counts of shop theft, one of criminal damage and one count of possession of a class A drug (crack cocaine).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">He pleaded guilty to each offence when he appeared at Bristol Magistrates&#8217; Court on Saturday, September 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">Connors was sentenced on Tuesday, September 30 to 12 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">As well as the jail sentence, Connors was also handed a three-year Criminal Behaviour Order which bans him from entering several shops across the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">Sgt Darrell Boothroyd said: &#8220;Connors is a prolific offender whose crimes have had a significant financial impact on businesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">&#8220;Shoplifting also negatively effects our communities and we remain committed to identifying those responsible for shop thefts and making sure they are brought before the courts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\" publication=\"bristolpost\">&#8220;I would urge anyone who witnesses shoplifting to report it to us so we can take action.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jeremiah Connors broke through a glass door as he fled from a store The moment a prolific shoplifter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[9312,14343,381,748,30,188,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-478488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-avon-and-somerset-constabulary","9":"tag-bishopsworth","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-crime","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-great-britain","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115328228116277613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478488","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=478488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}