Carl Minto

A thief racially abused shop staff who challenged him for stealing lager after brazenly announcing: "I'm just going to walk out with this, you can call the police if you like". It was on the afternoon of July 20 this year that intoxicated Carl Minto went into a Premier shop, in Sunderland , where he had been a regular customer.

He told a university student who was looking after the store for her parents of his intention to take a crate of Stella Artois without paying before helping himself. When the shop worker sought to stop him and grab the lager, he pushed her with both hands and left the shop with the cans after struggling with her.

The struggle then continued in the street, during which her arm was caught in the door and left with a red mark. Minto then went on to raci

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