‘Stay out of trouble… and get some smaller trousers’

A magistrate told a smartphone thief to buy some smaller trousers after he struggled to prevent his baggy gangsta pants from falling down in the dock.

Abdi Hashi, 22, waddled up from the cells in Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing low-riding jeans to admit handling stolen goods.

He was ordered to take his hands out of his pockets as the court heard he had handled a stolen Samsung S5 at Albert Embankment on the south bank of the Thames on 3 January.

But it soon became clear he had his hands in his pockets to hold his trousers up.

The hapless fashion victim then had to gyrate his hips try and maintain his modesty as bench Carolyn Mishon granted him a conditional discharge.

She told him: ‘Stay out of trouble.’

The magistrate paused for thought for a moment and added: ‘And get yourself some smaller trousers maybe.’

Hashi, of the West London YMCA Hostel, on St Mary’s Road, Ealing, west London was also wearing a neck brace and he struggled to nod his head before leaving the dock with his hands back in his pockets.