A MAN armed with a knife in a playground who went on a crime rampage has been jailed for a year.
Ryan James Axton, 29, went on a shoplifting and vandalism spree and tried to burgle a healthy and beauty salon in Newport.
The city’s magistrates’ court heard how he stole goods worth nearly £1,000 after targeting Boots and carried out an attempted burglary at Beauty and Chloe.
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Axton, of no fixed abode, Newport, pleaded guilty to theft, attempted burglary, criminal damage and possession of a knife in public.
The offences took place between July 19 and December 28, 2021.
Axton was ordered to pay £1,384.70 in compensation, costs and a surcharge.
The court ordered the forfeiture and destruction of the knife.
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