Bakery bandit who ‘stole half of cake maker’s stock from her honesty box stall’ fails to appear in court
A bakery thug accused of stealing half of a pastry shop’s stock from the honesty counter without paying a penny failed to appear in court after being charged with theft.
Blake Young, of Sprignall, Peterborough, was reported to have unloaded 25 baked goods worth £80 from the Treat Street Bake Shed in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on May 9.
He was supposed to appear in Boston Magistrate Court on June 22 but did not show up.
Prosecutor Lottie Tyler said the reason Young did not appear in person was because ‘he didn’t have the money to go to court’.
Arrangements were made for the alleged bakery thug to attend via video link instead, and although he had been awaiting his hearing over the phone for much of the day, Young did not attend when his case was finally ready at 4.45pm.
The hearing was later postponed to July 20 and an arrest warrant will be issued for him if he does not attend the hearing.
Young was charged with theft after a hidden camera inside the honesty box caught him taking various baked goods without paying.
He is accused of starting the theft of treats by opening the door of the shack with his red T-shirt covering his jaw, in order to hide his identity.
A pony-tailed bakery thug failed to appear in court this week after being charged with theft
Blake Young, 18, is accused of stealing baked goods from an honesty box in Spalding, Lincolnshire, on May 9
Bakery bandit’s trial postponed until next month in Boston Magistrate Court on June 22
Young then licked her lips as she seemingly slowly filled a plastic carrier bag with various goodies and even attempted to open the safe inside the cabin before calmly walking away.
When she saw the pony-tailed thief take her homemade cupcakes from just outside her front door, treat kiosk owner Sabina Seidel assumed he was just a supportive customer.
The 39-year-old man, thinking he had paid cash, came out, thanked me and replied, ‘I have a request’ as he left.
But when she turned to look inside the cake shack, the coin fell out and Sabina realized she had fallen victim to the bakery bandit.
“I assumed he had paid with cash and I checked the till and he hadn’t put any money in there,” he previously told the Mail.
Sabina started the cake shack in March as a way to realize her dream of owning a bakery despite her other life commitments.
She bakes a variety of homemade treats and fills the shed next to her front door, relying on customers’ honesty to pay in cash or online.
Once his customers caught wind of the theft, the rest of his stock quickly sold out, and one customer even offered him money, but he politely declined.
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Owner Sabina Seidel, 39, initially thought the man was a supportive customer, but the footage shows the moment she realized half of his shares had been stolen.
After the theft, the community came out to support his business and the rest of his goods were sold the same day
At the time of the theft he said: ‘People have been very supportive, there are regular customers and customers who come at the same time every week.
‘After hearing what happened yesterday, someone came to deposit money but I didn’t take it.’
Even though the man was said to have stolen half of her shares, Sabina said her only reaction was to cook more than before.
She spent the rest of her evening cooking and restocked the shed the next morning.
Treat Street Bake Shed uses an honesty system with QR code and till or cash for card payments. It is open from Monday to Friday.
