An alcoholic with hundreds of previous convictions told JPs he’d been refused entry to the court building – because he was drunk.
Andrew Robinson, who has more than 670 offences on his rap sheet, was due before Oxford Magistrates’ Court last Tuesday to answer an allegation he breached an earlier court order.
When he didn’t turn up to the hearing, the magistrates issued a warrant for his arrest.
Appearing in the dock on Saturday morning, Robinson, 52, of no fixed address, said he had come to court. “Security wouldn’t let me in. They said I was drunk.”
The bench granted him unconditional bail to return to court on December 14.
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