By Cathy Elelman • Published: 08 Apr 2020 • 14:19
A SOUTH London man caught nicking surgical masks from a hospital in the English capital has been sentenced to three months behind bars.
Security staff at King’s College Hospital caught Lerun Hussain pocketing masks on Sunday morning. Police charged the 34-year old from Clapham with theft later that day.
He pleaded guilty to stealing the essential personal protection equipment when he appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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