The shameless criminal discovered infamy when caught making an attempt to sneak an enormous Lay Z Spa out of his native B&Q superstore.
Shoplifter Carl Proctor, dubbed the ‘Sizzling Tub Crime Machine’ (Picture: Cheshire Police)
A shoplifter dubbed the ‘Sizzling Tub Crime Machine’ has been jailed – after returning to the scene of a earlier theft to pinch once more. Carl Proctor, 41, earned his moniker, a reference to the Hollywood 2010 comedy movie ‘Sizzling Tub Time Machine’, final September when admitting making an attempt to steal a Lay Z Spa and barred from each B&Q in his residence county.
However Crewe Magistrates Courtroom heard regardless of being slapped with a five-year Felony Behaviour Order (CBO) final yr he was again to his previous methods after returning to B&Q in Crewe, Cheshire, and making an attempt to steal £147 in gear. Now the serial offender has been jailed for 12 weeks, to run concurrently with an current six-month sentence for possession of monkey mud and hashish.
Proctor, of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, was sentenced on Wednesday this week for 4 offences – breaching an order for final yr’s offences, the brand new £147 theft and two drug offences – and ordered to pay £147.95 in compensation.
Proctor began final yr’s crime spree on sixteenth July 2025 by raiding Tesco of a Sharp TV, earlier than getting into a on twenty second July B&Q and swiping £1,000 of energy instruments.
He then returned 12 days later to sneak out a trolley with £800 {of electrical} gadgets.
Final yr North Staffordshire Justice Centre heard at a earlier listening to {that a} week after that he returned to the identical B&Q with a procuring trolley and tried to depart with it when the hearth alarm went off.
Safety challenged him and recovered the Spa, three outside lights and a plant. Proctor pushed the safety guard as he was alerting police and fled empty handed.
Proctor, was arrested and admitted 4 counts of theft from a store and one in all assaulting a safety guard again in August.
Insp Dan Welch, of Cheshire Police, stated: “Proctor was brazen in his makes an attempt to steal from the shops in Crewe and Hanley, taking 1000’s of kilos price of products.
“Due to the safety guard and workers, and native officers’ data in each Cheshire and Staffordshire, we have been in a position to put a cease to his offending and produce him earlier than the courts.”
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