Career criminal has 60 convictions for twice as many crimes

A career criminal with more than 60 convictions for more than twice as many offenses has been jailed again. Ross Vicars, 32, of no fixed abode, appeared before Truro Crown Court for sentencing today (Friday, May 24) via video link from prison in relation to a charge of breaching a behavior order murder, another of using threatening behavior towards another person and a third charge of assaulting a police officer.

The court heard how Vicars, who committed more than 139 offenses with 63 convictions over the years, was given a criminal behavior order in October 2020 but on August 31 last year, while visiting Poundland in Truro, he there was an incident involving a member of staff. at the shop in Boscawen Street after being asked to leave as he was refused entry.

Ramsay Quaife, prosecuting, said Vicars was walking towards Victoria Square after leaving Poundland and was followed at a distance by a member of staff while police were en route.

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The vicars began shouting abuse at the member of staff and made threats that when he got out of prison they would stab him and come to his house and burn it down.

Police officers showed up, and while he was getting into the back of a police car, he spat at the arresting officer. As a result, Vicars was moved to a police van, but once inside, on his way to the custody room in Newquay, he punched the police officer present with him.

His defense heard that Vicars is an “experienced defendant who knows when the writing is on the wall and knows when his record is going before him”.

His lawyer said: “He committed his first offense at 17, was in prison for the first time at 21, was the subject of his first Criminal Behavior Order in 2017. Since then he has been convicted of various offenses four times . he has been in and out of prison since this offense since last August.

Jailing Vicars for 12 months on the latest charges, reporter Christopher Quinlan, KC, said: “You have a formidable record. You commit crimes like this all the time.”