A JUDGE has told a man who stole a licence part that the crime was ‘stupid and dishonest’.
Oriano Guadagno, 43, was sentenced at Reading Crown Court on Monday (May 15) for theft and fraud.
On February 3 this year, Guadagno stole a number plate from Bucklebury Close in Maidenhead before using cable ties to attach it to his own vehicle.
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The licence plate was later found abandoned in a bush in Monkey Island Lane.
Judge Edward Burgess described the incident as ‘stupid’ before expressing his confusion over why the case had not been sentenced at a lower court.
He said: “You have a conviction in one foreign country – namely Germany – between the later part of 2004 and nothing since then.
“What you did was not only stupid but it was dishonest and in some sense echoes your previous offences of robbery.
“Though looking at your record you would have through you grew out of all that.
“It remains somewhat confusing to me, with the greatest of respect to the [Magistrates judges], why the Magistrates though it was necessary to send you case to the Crown court.”
On February 3 this year, Guadagno stole a number plate from Bucklebury Close in Maidenhead before using cable ties to attach it to his own vehicle.
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Guadagno, of Chiltern New Road, Uxbridge, was given 80 hours of unpaid work and orders were made for compensation.
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