A CAREER criminal is back behind bars after committing a crime spree in the town.

Alan Reid is no stranger to being locked up having amassed a ‘terrible’ criminal record, with a number of offences being committed while possessing weapons.

The 51-year-old was jailed in 2021 for poking a knife through his neighbour’s letterbox and charging at a mum while brandishing a broken glass.

This came after months after he was again incarcerated after being spotted on CCTV carrying a knife in the town centre.

His latest offences saw Reid charged with three counts of theft of pedal cycle, and he appeared to be sentenced at Chester Magistrates’ Court on Monday, January 23.

Alan Currums, prosecuting, told the court how the offences occurred on January 15 and 16 this year in Warrington.

Reid stole three bikes worth a combined £705 by cutting through cable locks.

Now of Folly Lane in Bewsey, Reid was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment by district judge John McGarva after pleading guilty.

The judge remarked that the defendant has a flagrant disregard for people and their property, with police in Warrington urging cyclists to consider using robust D-locks after his offending.

Reid was jailed for 27 months at Liverpool Crown Court in July 2021 after he turned on Good Samaritans after they attempted to stop him from dishing out a sickening beating on a woman.

The court heard at the time that he had amassed a staggering 61 previous convictions for 130 offences.

The woman was then threatened with a smashed glass, had a clump of her hair ripped out and was kicked to the ribs several times – causing her to black out.

The ‘vulnerable’ victim later required hospital treatment, and although she did not suffer any broken bones she was left with two black eyes and bite marks on her cheek as well as bruising to her neck.

An occupant of a neighbouring property intervened after hearing ‘shouting and screaming’ and saw her being dragged around by her hair in the communal hallway.

Reid, who was described in court as ‘acting like a savage animal’, then made racist remarks and poked a knife through a letterbox and waved it around.

When the neighbour’s mum arrived at the scene, Reid ran at her brandishing a broken beer glass and swung the weapon at her, again using racist and abusive terms.

He was out in the community on licence at the time of the attack, having been jailed for six months in January for possession of a bladed article in the town centre.

Other offences on his lengthy record include a string of bicycle thefts from outside the Cockhedge Centre.

In 2017, he was sentenced to 32 months in prison for breaking into the Orford Hotel and smashing up cashing machines inside with an axe in order to steal more than £1,000.

The prolific thief, who once appeared on BBC’s Rogue Traders, was given six months in prison in 2016 after conning elderly residents out of hundreds of pounds for home repairs.

He also staged a four-hour rooftop siege in 2009.