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A couple who snuck into a woman's house, smashed a mirror, stole her medication and created a slippery mess in her kitchen with washing up liquid have been given a "last chance" to complete community service for the crimes and avoid jail.
Around 20:00 on 17 September, Carl Henriette (33) started throwing things at the woman’s bedroom window.
When she briefly went out to go to the shop around 30 minutes later, Henriette and girlfriend Shannen Dempsey (25), who had previously been convicted of grave and criminal assault, entered.
Henriette pushed over a heart-shaped mirror leaning on the wall, causing it to smash, and stole multiple strips of woman's medication. Dempsey stole a red toiletries bag, which included make-up and more prescription drugs. Together, the pair covered the kitchen floor in washing up liquid.
Henriette and Dempsey admitted the crimes, but the Royal Court heard yesterday that they had not abided by their sentencing orders.
Henriette had been sentenced to 210 hours of workbut Crown Advocate Matthew Maletroit, prosecuting, said he had only completed 20 hours.
Dempsey had only done five hours out of the 180 hours she had been sentenced to.
Advocate Maletroit said: "Despite assurances time and time again that every effort would be made to complete the orders, there has been a routine failure to attend or provide proper justification for not attending."
Pictured: Henriette and Dempsey appeared in the Royal Court yesterday.
He suggested replacing the orders with prison sentences. He recommended 14 months in jail for Henriette and 12 months for Dempsey.
Advocate Chris Baglin, defending Dempsey, said she had suffered from the highly infectious rash impetigo for part of the time, which had prevented her from working.
He said: "There have been medical reasons. But she is now fit and able. When she has attended she has engaged well."
Advocate Allana Binnie, defending Henriette, said: "We are dealing with three sessions that he has missed. A prison sentence would mean the loss of the remaining biological parent for his young child, the loss of the financial support for that child that my client provides."
She added: "He is profoundly sorry to his daughter and to the court. He has asked for one final opportunity to prove himself."
Bailiff Sir Timothy Le Cocq, presiding, told the defendants: "Community service is not meant to be easy and is not meant to be convenient. It is not optional."
But he said the Jurats had agreed to grant them a final opportunity to complete it, with a review of their progress scheduled for 24 November.
He told Henriette: "Please see this as a last chance. If there is another breach it will be you and you alone who let your daughter down."
The Jurats sitting were Steven Austin-Vautier and Karen Le Cornu.
Couple stole meds and messed up kitchen in attack on woman's home
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