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1. This is an appeal against sentence. Just after midnight the Appellant was seen by police officers while he was looking into cars parked at the road side. He tried the door handles of various cars and then eventually was seen to take something out of his pocket and insert it into the door handle of a car. The police were satisfied that he was trying to steal from these parked cars and he was arrested. He was charged on two charges, one of loitering at night and one of possession of an instrume