LONDON (Web Desk) – A man has been accused of stealing his own barrister’s mobile phone during a court appearance where he admitted drug and driving offences.
Bobby Heath, 25, is alleged to have taken Charlotte Johnson’s £300 Samsung mobile phone while she defended him in a case at Bexley Magistrates’ Court on May 1, the Daily Mail reported.
Heath, from Rochester in Kent, is said to have taken the phone from a window sill after he and Ms Johnson discussed the payment of fines following his guilty pleas to charges of possession of cannabis and driving without insurance.
Magistrates fined him £165 and he had to pay further costs of £170. His driving licence was also endorsed with six points.
Details of the unusual incident were tweeted by Scotland Yard’s @MPSBexley account.
Bobby Heath, 25 of Strood, Kent has just been charged with stealing his barristers mobile phone at Bexley magistrates court on 1st May 2015.
— Bexley MPS (@MPSBexley) May 5, 2015
Appearing at the same court on Wednesday, he denied the charge of theft of his lawyer’s mobile phone and was released on unconditional bail until his trial at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court on November 12.
