Shane Altmann, 26, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court on Friday to stealing peanut butter twice from the Darriwell Farms store.

Police were called to the shop at 8.50am Friday.

Altmann had sat at a table, but been asked ​by staff ​to move on if he didn’t order something. 

He got up, ​selected a jar of peanut butter and left without paying.

Altmann had done the same thing on Wednesday.

Officers found Altmann down the street with the peanut butter in his front pocket. 

​He was arrested late last week after stealing and eating steak in a supermarket.

He was jailed for the two days he spent in custody ​before getting to court.

During the week he was arrested for eating prawns and fillets of ling and salmon ​at another supermarket.

Altmann was fined $500.

Lawyer Louis Robertson said on Friday that he had repeatedly called the South West Mental Health Service but had not received a call back.

He said his client was clearly very unwell and he and police were trying to put supports in place.

Altmann said he could not take medication without that prompting negative interactions because he had so much drugs in his system.

Senior Constable Greg Kew said officers p​l​anned to take Altmann to the hospital for a mental health assessment, saying that the defendant’s offending was not at this stage putting any ​other ​person at risk.

“It’s abnormal behaviour,” he said.

Magistrate Cynthia Toose said Altmann was a huge risk of continuing to offend.

After hearing the police plan, she said: “I would appreciate someone doing something. If there’s not an intervention he will continue to commit offences”.

The peanut butter ​theft​ charges were proven and dismissed. 

Ms Toose told Altmann that he needed assistance but he had to stop self-diagnosing.

Thursday: A HOMELESS man jailed for two days earlier this week for stealing and eating raw meat has now been fined for sitting down to eat raw fish in a supermarket.

Shane Altmann, 26, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty in the Warrnambool Magistrates Court to theft on Thursday. 

Magistrate Cynthia Toose said it was very usual for someone to get fish and prawns in a supermarket, sit on the floor and eat them.

She noted that Altmann had consumed half a bottle of whiskey in 30 minutes before the offending. 

​Ms Toose told Altmann that drinking had a negative impact on him when when he was on medication.

"You do unusual things. If you keep offending, someone will sooner or later jail you for a long time,” she said.

Police said that just before 10am on Wednesday, Altmann went to a pharmacy where he stole a $10 container of magnesium tablets and walked out without making any attempt to pay.

At 4.20pm the same day he went to the Coles supermarket at Gateway Plaza where he used a Coles supermarket card to buy groceries. He then left but returned to the store, went to the deli and ordered raw prawns as well as ling and salmon fillets.

He then sat on the supermarket floor and ate the fish and prawns.

Police were called and when they arrived found Altmann sitting outside the supermarket surrounded by prawn shells. 

Lawyer Louis Robertson said his client was very unwell and had eaten the raw food to try and address what he thought was an iron deficiency.

“He’s caught in a cycle of offending. He has a diagnosis of schizophrenia and an acquired brain injury,” he said.