Homeless Chesterfield in drunken attack on Tesco Express store

Daniel Parks, 44, of no fixed address, was last before Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court on February 10 and urged by the bench to relocate to Derby where he would not keep falling foul of orders preventing him from entering the town centre or being drunk in public.

But he was arrested again on Sunday, February 16, for trying the kick in the windows of the Tesco Express, on Lockoford Lane, after staff refused to serve him.

On February 10, your Times reported that Parks first had the order imposed in 2017, banning him from entering Chesterfield town centre and being drunk in a public place.

On Wednesday, February 5, he was arrested and brought to court after police spotted him walking through town and was given a community order, Chesterfield Magistrates’ Court was told on Friday, February 7.

But the following night he was found unresponsive in a shop doorway and was arrested again and brought back to court.

He was given a community order, which was revoked two days later and replaced with a 12-week suspended sentence.

Prosecuting on Monday, February 17, Becky Allsop said that police had been called and witnessed Parks kicking the windows of the store and shouting abuse.

“An off-duty police officer first saw the defendant kicking the panes of glass, which were shaking,” she said. “He was shouting abuse and looked to be drunk, and was staggering around the carpark. He smelled of alcohol and was unsteady on his feet. There have been a large number of breaches.”

Mitigating, Kirsty Sergent aid: “He thought that the security staff were being rude to him and taking the mickey out of him,” she said. “He thought the store was open 24-7.”

She added that Parks had failed to move to Derby where he could access homeless shelters because he didn’t have any money.

Parks, who admitted the latest breach, was jailed for a total of 20 weeks and ordered to pay a £122 victim surcharge.