Drug-addicted mum who's clocked up 75 offences given a chance - and promises to hand herself in if she blows it

A mum with an addiction to drugs has promised to turn over a new leaf after clocking up 75 offences.

Charlene McKerrow, 33, appeared on a police wanted list having embarked on a shoplifting rampage.

She clocked up 75 offences and repeatedly went on the run, sleeping on sofas at the homes of friends across Bolton, before police were able to catch up to her.

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McKerrow, now of Manchester Road, Bolton, was detained after she defied an ASBO-type Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO) 20 times and embarked on a shoplifting spree in which she stole more than £1,000-worth of items from high street stores while claiming she was armed with a knife.

Despite there being a 'high risk of reoffending', according to probation officers, McKerrow was handed a 20-month sentence, suspended for two years, at Bolton Crown Court earlier this week.

The court heard how McKerrow had led a 'chaotic' lifestyle due to domestic violence she witnessed at home growing up.

She was put in care and left school at the age of 14 without any qualifications.

During her criminal career, she attacked passengers on a bus; went on a foul mouthed rampage at a takeaway; and was involved in a robbery in which a girl had a can of beer poured over her head, before she had her phone taken.

Of the 75 offences, 38 involved thefts and 13 were breaches of court orders.

McKerrow has also been given a number of conditional discharges, community orders and suspended sentences.

In 2013, she was jailed for five years and three months for wounding after she smashed a bottle of lager in the face of another woman leaving her scarred for life and needing 36 stitches.

In December 2020, she