Clearly, Judge Baxter, She's Right To Think They Are Daft...

A thieving mother-of-three has walked free from court despite being one of the most heavily convicted women in Britain.

Which is a difficult thing to rack up in modern Britain!

Police believe she has plundered tens of thousands of pounds worth of items during raids on ladies lockers at gyms, health centres and spas across the North of England. One victim lost her engagement and wedding ring and on other occasions Fidler broke into five different lockers in one swoop.

Despite being repeatedly arrested and jailed, Fidler would come out of jail and do the same thing again.

But I thought jail was a terrible, awful place? At least, that's what the bleeding hearts all tell us...

In a bid to stop her thieving spree, Fidler was banned from all leisure centres, gyms or hotels in the UK under the terms of an ASBO-style Criminal Behaviour Order.

But she was arrested again in July after various lockers were broken into after staff let her use the ladies toilet at Salford Community Leisure centre in Greater Manchester. At Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester, Fidler admitted breaching her Criminal Behaviour Order but escaped with a 12-month community order.

Why?

The single mother - who has three-year-old son (Ed: Why isn't the child removed from her 'care'?) - claimed she was only at the leisure centre because she was desperate for the toilet whilst visiting an art and craft fayre.

But Judge Bernadette Baxter said: 'I don't believe a word of it. The reality is she is a woman who is a heroin addict.

'She knew what this place was, she knew there was a pool there, with lockers and a gym.

'She could have gone to the local shops, pubs, cafes, anywhere that has a toilet. Why did she go out of her way to go to the leisure centre? How daft does she think people are?'

As daft as a mad old bat of a judge who lets her off a prison sentence because she has a child?

The judge added: 'You have umpteen previous convictions but I'm not going to send you to prison as I think this will encourage your little boy to get involved with the kind of life you have lived.

'We need to prevent you from going to leisure centre, breaking into the lockers and stealing other people's stuff, causing them distress and upset so you must get involved in a drug rehabilitation programme.

'You need to get in control and keep control and you need to start putting your child first instead of yourself.'

She's a junkie. She'll never put anyone ahead of that. You should be asking why she's allowed to keep a child. You've failed in your duty as a judge.