Sean McAvoy
Dopey Sean McAvoy is feeling the cold after mistaking a freezer for a toilet.
He was handed a six month jail sentence after he triggered the alarm at his local boozer BREAKING OUT of a freezer cabinet!
The 21-year-old was convicted of causing criminal damage to a fridge freezer in a local pub while attempting to escape its frosty confines.
The boozed up ice breaker claimed he became locked inside after mistaking the kitchen area as toilets and was forced to break his way out as oxygen in his icy cell began to run out.
He pleaded guilty to the charge of criminal damage – a charge of burglary was dropped when it emerged he didn’t trigger the alarm by breaking in but by breaking out!
McAvoy was trapped in Bank bar on Trevor Hill in Newry for hours before managing to escape.
Prosecution told Newry court this week the PSNI were called to the bar after the manager contacted them to report a possible burglary in process.
Police arrived at the scene and found a mobile phone belonging to McAvoy.
When approached by police at his home McAvoy said: “is it because of the Bank, I was locked in the fridge”.
During police interview he admitted to being “lost” and did not recall being in the bar earlier in the night.
He claimed he did not know where the bathroom was and had walked into the kitchen by mistake. He began to panic when he realised he had locked himself inside an industrial fridge freezer.
An industrial fridge freezer
Defence counsel said his client had no intention of burglary; he was extremely intoxicated, it is only the charge of criminal damage that is appropriate,” he said.
District judge Eamonn king alluded to McAvoy’s lengthy criminal record from the age of 17-years-old, most of which for public disorder through alcohol.
“I have explained to him if he is going to have a career as a criminal, it is not a good idea, as he always gets caught, because of alcohol” said Mr King.
“I hope the three months in jail have given him time to reflect. We had one of the best summers ever over the last few months, the driest summer on record and you got to see it from your prison cell.
“When are you going to grow up..or are you just going to have a sad and pointless existence of alcohol and drugs. Will you continue to inflict yourself on the whole community..only you can answer that,” added the magistrate.
McAvoy must also pay an offender's levy.
He was barred from the Bank bar two years previous.