A recidivist thief with more than 160 convictions might be an "old dog" but he is capable of "new tricks", his lawyer says. It’s either make or break for me, and I want to make it," Bell told Judge Russell Walker at the Dunedin District Court. The rhetoric resulted in a sentence of community detention and intensive supervision — an attempt to give the man the tools he needed to turn his life around. It was a different kind of tools, however, that brought about his most recent downfall. However, a security tag on one of the tools set off an alarm and he was pursued to his car by a staff member.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 14, 2021 16:33 UTC