Bracelet thief threatened to burn coroner's court down

38-year-old avoids jail despite record for criminal damage

- AMY WALKER

A MAN who targeted jewellery stores, a coroners court, and a hospital car park in a crime spree has avoided jail.

Elliott Harrison, 38, first came to the attention of the police when he went into the Pandora store in the Arndale Centre.

He asked to see a bracelet and as it was placed on his wrist he walked out the store along with the bracelet worth £510. Later that day on May 25 this year he went into the Pandora store in the Merseyway shopping centre, in Stockport, and did the same thing with a bracelet worth £595, prosecutor Gareth Hughes said.

Harrison, of Stockport, went back to the same Pandora store but members of staff recognized him and alerted security staff who spooked him before he could continue. He has since pleaded guilty to two counts of theft.