A shoplifter who used a joint of meat to assault a store manager has been jailed. Forty-five-year-old Desmond Stephens pleaded guilty to stealing meat worth £40 from a shop in Long Sutton and a charge of assault by beating when he appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday (April 17). His case was deferred to Peterborough Magistrates’ Court for sentencing on Friday (April 19) to be heard alongside another charge. “The defendant attended the Spar store where the manager was watching the CCTV cameras,” prosecutor Kerry Close told Boston magistrates. “He noticed Mr Stephens put a piece …