Craigavon Magistrates Court was informed that together with three associates, Tom Mongan went into Sainsbury’s in Rushmere procuring centre in November 2021 and so they every stuffed luggage with “regenerative beauty creams”.
While the full quantity stolen was simply over £700, a prosecutor informed the court docket on Wednesday the 28-year-old was liable for stealing 4 Olay branded lotions value £120.
Mongan, from Alton Avenue in Dunmurry, was recognized from CCTV footage and later entered a responsible plea to a single depend of theft.
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) lawyer started to open an extra alleged incident the identical day the place the identical gang allegedly stole over £1,000 value of Olay and Nivea lotions from a store in Cookstown however he stopped after defence counsel argued that offence was not on the indictment.
One of the puppies seized from Thomas Mongan who was convicted of inflicting pointless struggling to 16 pups
District Judge Francis Rafferty informed the court docket he had a pre-sentence report about Mongan “showing thievery on an industrial scale” and revealed that among the many convictions is one in England “for something similar — £2,500 of cosmetics from Marks and Spencers”.
“Notwithstanding all of that, probation say he is a low likelihood of reoffending,” stated the decide as he imposed a four-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months.
Two weeks in the past Mongan stood earlier than Glasgow Sheriff’s Court the place he and three kinfolk admitted inflicting what a decide described as “unspeakable cruelty” in the direction of a lot of dogs between December 2020 and February 2021.
According to court docket papers, Mongan was liable for three dogs at rented properties in Glasgow’s Shawlands and Tollcross.
The cost outlines how the dogs weren’t stored in a clear situation or appropriate setting, that two of the dogs, Bella and Albi, weren’t vaccinated and so they had been uncovered to struggling, harm and illness.
One of the puppies seized from Mongan
Bella and Albi, who’ve since handed away, had been discovered to have worm burden, underweight physique situation, parasitic infestation, diarrhoea and parvovirus signs.
Mongan and his co-accused are to be sentenced for these offences in November however the Scottish case shouldn’t be the primary time that Mongan has stood in a dock accused of stunning cruelty.
Last May at Belfast Magistrates Court, Mongan was ordered to finish 100 hours of group service after he tried to move 16 puppies to England by squeezing them into the boot of his automotive.
He was additionally banned from holding dogs for 10 years after admitting inflicting pointless struggling to the various breeds who had been confined in small and filthy canine crates with out meals or water.
Belfast Harbour Police uncovered the pups as Mongan tried to board a ferry to Liverpool in October 2020.
The 16 puppies, together with chihuahuas, spaniels and beagles, “had been squeezed into two crates that were too small, lying on top of each other,” a prosecution lawyer informed the court docket.
Veterinary examinations established that at the very least among the dogs had been lower than six weeks old and exhibiting indicators of illness.
One of the animals who appeared significantly weak was recognized with water on the mind and later needed to be put to sleep.
On prime of the group service and 10-year animal ban, Mongan was ordered to pay £680 in the direction of authorized and veterinary prices.
