goals are now to go straight and have a wife and family.

The 26-year-old Somerset Trojans player, once more in Magistrates' Court for breaking and entering, was given the maximum period of community service.

In a stern lecture, the Wor. Cheryl-Ann Mapp said he had a "very appalling history'' of such offences. She warned him to tackle his crack cocaine problem, keep away from bad company and set a better example to his fans.

He said she didn't want to see him in court again. "Everybody's tired of seeing you. You've become a household name around here.'' Goalkeeper Williams, of Harvest Lane, Hamilton Parish, stole $645 worth of belongings and $120 cash during a March 16 spree while on probation. He admitted breaking into three homes, stealing in two of them and attempting to break into another.

"It seems you've been given the benefit of every doubt this court can extend to you,'' Mrs. Mapp said.

"You have a lot of potential to make a positive contribution to the community but you don't seem to want to channel your energies in the right way.

"You're working against yourself because you keep getting yourself in trouble.'' The courts had tried giving him fines, community service and jail, she said.

"You're just a typical product of the system, because you keep coming in and out, in and out.

"You have no business being in anybody's house all hours of the night and helping yourself to their things, and half of it doesn't come back.'' Under the influence of crack he didn't know what he was doing, she said.

"This stuff can kill you,'' she said. "You should want more for yourself than you've given yourself over the last couple of years.'' She accepted Williams had recently taken positive steps to change his life around, and that he had done some serious thinking during two weeks in custody on remand.

The offences were a case of "the past catching up with the present''. But because of his history, every time there was a break-in in Somerset he was the first person blamed.

"You're just absolutely at the end now,'' she added. "There's no more leniency for you as far as this court is concerned.'' Mrs. Mapp gave him 12 months prison suspended for two years, 240 hours community service and extended his probation until 1995.

She said if he didn't comply with addiction services he would be brought back to court and dealt with an alternative way. Although the stolen property had been recovered the cash had not, and he would have to pay it back.

Williams told her he had been making progress but had "slipped back'' after problems with his girlfriend and difficulty getting work.

He apologised for his offences and for embarrassing his family. "I will just do my best,'' he said.