A thief who broke both ankles fleeing from a hotelier was greeted with little sympathy as his angry victim shouted 'Good, you thieving shit'.
And there was little support from the judge either who told the unemployed alcoholic that the victim was merely speaking on behalf of the rest of the public.
Darryl Philips suffered the injuries when he jumped 18 feet from a multi-storey car park in a bid to escape the vigilante hotelier as he fled with a bottle of whisky. He failed to look behind him as he vaulted over the barrier of the car park in Torquay, clutching the bottle of Jack Daniels, and as he lay on the ground he called up to hotelier Rick Johnson that he had broken his legs and the angry victim replied 'Good, you thieving shit'.
Philips tried to crawl away to escape the police but was found hiding in bushes 20 feet from the spot where he fell.
The 29-year-old of Paignton, Devon, admitted two burglaries and was jailed for 34 weeks, suspended for a year, and ordered to undergo a year's supervision by Judge Erik Salomonsen at Exeter Crown Court. The judge told him 'You are 29 and have made a complete mess of your life. You live with your mother in a caravan and have the most appalling drink problem. 'When you jumped off the car park and broke your ankles and the man pursuing you expressed no sympathy, he was expressing the view that most of the residents of the town would express.
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