A car thief described as a scourge on motorists has been banned from every car park in Manchester city centre.
Carlo Lanzon, aged 27, received an ASBO on conviction as he was sentenced to 18 months in prison at Manchester Crown Court on Friday, 14 January. He was found guilty of stealing a laptop and sat nav from a car parked in the Whitworth Street car park last August, as well as stealing a handbag from a bar on Princess Street last March and stealing money from the till of a city centre bar last February.
Speaking at the hearing, Judge Goldstone QC also said Lanzon, from Westmere Drive in Collyhurst, had an appalling record of car crime and had been a scourge on motorists leaving their cars in the city centre.?Lanzon also had 27 previous convictions including shoplifting, stealing from charity collection boxes and stealing handbags. ? ?These offences included breaking into 10 cars parked in the city centre between March 2009 and December 2010, causing hundreds of pounds worth of damage and stealing items such as sat navs, cash, a laptop, an ipod and a musical instrument.
The order, which will take effect as soon as Lanzon is released from jail, will exclude him from any private or public car park in the city centre unless he is a passenger or the driver of a vehicle parked or about to be parked there.
He is also banned from entering or attempting to enter any unattended vehicle in the city centre without the owner’s permission. Breaking any of the order’s conditions could see Lanzon go straight back to prison.
Lanzon is well known to security staff at city centre car parks, and they will be able to report him to police as soon as they see him.
Councillor Paul Andrews, Manchester City Council’s Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services, said: "People who live, work or visit the city centre should be free to park without worrying whether their vehicles will be safe, and this order sends out a clear message that car crime will not be tolerated in Manchester.?"Lanzon’s behaviour was completely unacceptable and any other criminals who operate in the city centre’s car parks can expect the same treatment."
