Graffiti vandal targeted bus in Stourbridge traffic jam
Stunned passengers caught up in a traffic jam looked on in dismay – as a brazen graffiti vandal daubed their coach with 'tags' as they sat in disbelief.
Prolific graffiti scrawler Creagan Piesley got out his marker pen and spray paint to deface the vehicle as it crawled along Worcester Street, Stourbridge.
As members of the public also reported fresh graffiti on the walls of the nearby New Road subway, leading to Market Street, police officers gave chase on foot.
And they soon caught up with 20-year-old Piesley, who was already under a Crasbo (Criminal Antisocial Behaviour Order) banning him from carrying 'graffiti tools' in public.
At the time he was arrested, Piesley, of Hedgefield Grove, Colley Gate, was also already accused of daubing graffiti on door shutters at an architectural shop in Long Lane, Halesowen.
When he appeared before Dudley magistrates on Friday he admitted charges of criminal damage to the coach in Stourbridge on October 4 and to the shop Inspired in Long Lane, Halesowen, on August 31.
He also admitted two charges of breaching a two-year Crasbo, which was imposed on him in November 2011 for shoplifting and criminal damage. He had originally denied the latest offences but changed his plea.
Dudley magistrates gave him a five-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, warning him that if he did not stop daubing graffiti he would end up serving time in prison.
He was also given a new, two-year Crasbo, banning him from carrying marker pens, spray paint or shoe polish, and ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work.
