Probe launched after smug offender sweet-talks brewery boss into giving him '25 litres' of beer while egged on by community service supervisors
Probation bosses have launched a probe after an offender filled up a container with free beer during his COMMUNITY SERVICE - while his laughing supervisors looked on.
Video footage shows the petty crook looking smug as the boss of a micro brewery fills an empty screen wash container with buckshee bitter from a barrel.
Another crook can be heard shouting: “Twenty five litres of f***ing beer” as another jokes: “Plus screen wash.”
And of the two community service supervisors watching on can be heard joining in the banter saying: “Lads working hard on CS (Community Service)” during the 32-second clip obtained by The Sun.
The offender was then allowed to store the beer in one of the supervisors’ motors while he completed his community service sweeping the streets on the order of a court.
The incident took place at Tweedale Court Industrial Estate in Madeley, Telford, Shrops.
Four offenders supposedly being punished for their crimes had been taken to a unit used to store tools by a rehabilitation company before setting to work to tidy up roads in the area.
But before their stint one of the men spotted that the unit next door was used by the local called Shires Brewery and asked a staff member there if he could buy a barrel “for a tenner.”
The dray man told him he would give him free beer if he could find a container to put it in.
The offender went off to search through the community service tool store and returned with a swilled out 25 litre screen wash plastic drum which was then filled with beer from a keg.
The delighted crim - doing community service for driving offences - asked one of the supervisors if he could leave the booze in their Transit van.
But he was told he could store it in the gaffers’ own personal van until the leaf clearing session was over.
An eye-witness said:”The two supervisors just looked on as the bloke blagged a container of free beer during his community service.
“He then stowed it in one of the gaffer’s vans and carted it off when the gang came back from clearing up leaves in the area.
“I bet the magistrates who ordered him to do community service didn’t realise there was a free drink in it for him.
“The two blokes from the rehabilitation company didn’t bat an eye lid.
“It’s taking the Mickey out of the system really.”
The CS stint was being run by the Warwickshire and West Mercia Community Rehabilitation Company.
They run programmes when defendants are ordered to do community service work rather than serve prison sentences for their offences.
A spokeswoman confirmed an investigation had been launched into the incident.
