MULTIPLE people have appeared in courts across Reading the week to be sentenced, to stand trial, to be arraigned and more.
Many people who have stood in the dock have avoided being sent to jail after receiving a suspended order of a community order.
However, several people have been sent to jail after their hearings with a range of different sentence lengths.
From a bank robber who stole £600k to a lady who abused emergency lines, here is everyone that has been sent to jail from Reading Crown Court this week:
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A robber has been jailed for eight years after stealing £600,000 in cash from Lloyds Bank in Woodley.
Dressed in a black balaclava and puffer jacket, Shaun Atkins threatened three bank tellers to open a safe in Crockhamwell Road on January 18 this year.
The 40-year-old stole about £370,000, €270,000 and $550 in cash from the safe before running to the car park opposite the bank.
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He was then tasered by a police constable after trying to flee from the officers and was subsequently arrested.
At Reading Crown Court on Monday (May 22), he was jailed for eight years – reduced from 12 years for pleading guilty.
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A Reading rapist has been jailed for almost seven years after assaulting a woman last year.
Caitlin-Petrisor Luca, of Chesterman Street, Reading, was jailed for six years and 11 months for one count of rape of a woman over the age of 16 at Reading Crown Court on Monday (May 22).
Thee 33-year-old was found guilty of raping a woman on October 30 last year in Reading.
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As well as his almost seven-year jail sentence, Luca has also been barred from working with children or vulnerable people indefinitely.
It is unknown if an order was made for costs.
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An elderly lady has been jailed after repeatedly calling 999 without a genuine emergency.
Ann Lea was sentencing at Reading Crown Court to six months in jail for two counts of breaching a criminal behaviour order in October last year.
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The order consisted of calling 999 without a genuine emergency, verbally abusing a member of the emergency services in person or via telephone, and calling 101 without a genuine police related matter.
Lea, of Great Goodwin Drive, Guildford, was sentenced to two six month prison sentences to run concurrently.
The 77-year-old’s sentencing was delayed in April after she made a ‘blunt refusal’ to attend.
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