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Protests have been staged outside The Bell Hotel, where he was being housed, since Kebatu's arrest and subsequent conviction on Thursday of five offences.

It’s good to have your own convictions, and it’s nice to share them.

Judge James Adkin said in sentencing that he accepted that Hopper, who had no previous convictions, was remorseful.

The court was told a review by the Crown Prosecution Service found there was no realistic prospect of conviction, because it could not be proved the defendant had been dishonest when he took the flowers.

Two years later it was closed, with the force concluding there was "insufficient evidence to support a realistic prospect of conviction".