CRYING boy beggar Wayne Rose is today behind bars after he was again caught turning on the waterworks as he peddled his sob story to get money to fund his heroin habit.
The 23-year-old preys on good Samaritans with tales of woe, saying he has been abandoned and needs money to get home to Reading.
On other occasions he turns on the emotional blackmail, saying he has been beaten up by his family or that relatives are ill and he needs to be by their side.
After magistrates were persuaded to put him on a drug treatment and testing order in April, Rose told the Evening Advertiser his begging days were over: "I hope this will change my life," he said. "I want to put everything behind me."
Earlier magistrates had been told how at the time of his offending he was feeding a drug habit but had shown determination to change his ways.
"That impressed us and the probation service," said chairman of the bench Stephen Blanchard at the spring hearing.
But in the six months since it has all gone wrong for Rose, who not only failed on the 18-month drug treatment and testing order but was caught cheating people out of money with his sob story and even just snatching it.
At the latest hearing Frank Murphy, prosecuting, said Rose approached a couple in the car park of Wicks in Ocotal Way on August 17 and spun them his line about being stranded in Swindon.
"The wife was considering what to do when he leaned through the car window and snatched £22," he said.
Mr Murphy said that on Saturday, September 7, Rose was spotted in the Granville Street car park begging from three motorists.
Magistrates were told that a couple of days before the first of the latest offences he had admitted breaching his DTTO and the matter was adjourned for a pre-sentence report to be prepared along with another DTTO assessment.
But Rose, who admitted theft and begging, failed to turn up for either report to be prepared and was brought before the court in custody.
Rod Ross, defending, asked magistrates to release his client on bail for the reports to be prepared, saying that his heroin use had reduced .
Rose, he said, had also been in contact with his family who were prepared to take him into their Monroe Close home if he was released.
He said that his client had been living with his girlfriend in Gladstone Street and she said he had cut down his heroin use considerably.
Magistrates declined the application and remanded him in custody for reports to be prepared.
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