TWO vagrants who were found at a waste recycling centre intending to steal have been sentenced.

Christopher Griffiths and Andrew Worrall appeared at Liverpool, Knowsley and St Helens Magistrates' Court.

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Griffiths, 31, and Worrall, 34, both pleaded guilty to being in an enclosed area at Ravenhead Waste Reception Centre on Burtonhead Road with intent to steal on July 9 last year, contrary to The Vagrancy Act of 1824.

Griffiths, of Queensland Avenue, Thatto Heath was fined £40 for the offence, made to pay a £34 surcharge and £45 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service, making a total of £119.

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Worrall, of Cleveland Street, Peasley Cross was also made to pay the same amounts.