A Puzzling case: Tunstall Road man who attacked ambulance worker finally jailed after stealing £200 Jigsaw

A Tunstall Road man suffering drug addictions has finally been jailed after he was caught stealing a £200 Jigsaw.

Michael O’Connor, 42, is a repeat offender who avoided prison after he attacked on spat on an ambulance worker last year.

Despite being given an 18 month community order, he continued to offend and violate a ban on entering Sunderland City Centre.

The judge revoked the community order and jailed him for six weeks for the emergency worker assault.

And she jailed him for six weeks for theft and two weeks for breaching a section 35 antisocial directive to stay out of the city centre, both to run consecutively.

Of the section 35 offence, prosecutor Rebecca Gibson said: “The defendant was issued with a dispersal notice at 6pm on July 21, for 48 hours.

“He was located at 10.30am on July 23 in the dispersal notice exclusion zone. He was arrested.”