New Addington teenager jailed for riot-stolen phone

7:30am Thursday 20th October 2011 in Your Say

Teenager jailed for riot-stolen phone Teenager jailed for riot-stolen phone

A 19-year-old was sentenced to ten months in prison for handling stolen goods taken during the August 8 riots.

Grishaj Gridi, of King Henry’s Drive, New Addington, was pulled over by police in Crown Road, Sutton, on August 13, and found to be in possession of a mobile phone stolen from a shop in Purley Way, Croydon, during the looting on August 8 and 9.

Gridi was arrested and taken to Sutton police station.

He told police he paid £100 for a phone from a man he only "knew loosely" in Thornton Heath on August 11 or 12.

He was sentenced at Inner London Crown Court on Thursday, October 13 after previously pleading guilty to handling stolen goods.

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Comments(4)

ColP404 says...
11:48am Thu 20 Oct 11

From the look of your picture he has already been let out for good behaviour or did he play the discrimination card ?

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Charles Edwards says...
12:11pm Thu 20 Oct 11

Good, good. Keep 'em coming.

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MikeyF says...
5:38pm Thu 20 Oct 11

Excellent news "KEEP LOCKING THEM UP" It's great to read about so many of these people who took part in the riots in some way being locked up, hopefully they will learn from their mistakes?

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Monstermunch17 says...
8:28pm Thu 20 Oct 11

Doesn't say anywhere in the report that he took part in the riots, so not sure where the poster above is coming from. If he had, or had stolen the phone himself, this would surely have been captured on CCTV.
So to summarise, a 19 year old who bought something from someone he knew, gets 10 months in prison, because the courts want to be seen as doing something. Putting him in what is basically criminals' finishing school, at taxpayers' expense, (particularly if he goes on to re-offend, as stats suggest he will), is the criminal justice system at it's knee-jerking, short-termist worse.

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