A robber who stole £300 at knifepoint in Sainsbury’s will be sentenced in February.
Louis Fielding, 23, had expected to learn his fate at Oxford Crown Court earlier this week.
But his barrister, Kellie Enever, asked for the case to be adjourned – telling Recorder John Bate-Williams that her client had not been able to speak to the psychiatrist commissioned to write a mental health report in December as he and his cellmate were self-isolating due to a coronavirus outbreak at HMP Bullingdon.
Adjourning the sentencing hearing until February 11, the judge said: “This is clearly a very unfortunate situation and I’m very sorry from your point of view, Mr Fielding, that we can’t proceed today but it wouldn’t be satisfactory or sensible to go ahead today without the psychiatric report.”
Fielding, of no fixed address, appeared in court via video link from HMP Bullingdon. He was remanded in custody.
He has previously pleaded guilty to robbing a store assistant at Sainsbury’s in Wantage Road, Didcot, on September 8 last year of £300 cash and possession of a knife.
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