Colchester man jailed for shoplifting

A man from Colchester has been jailed for 18 months for shoplifting.

38 year-old Daniel Jones of Spruce Avenue, had previously admitted 33 thefts and ignoring 31 times a two-year criminal behaviour order which banned him from entering any Co-op store in Essex.

He was sentenced at Chelmsford Crown Court on 30 March, after the judge heard he was also in breach of a suspended six-month jail term.

The court heard that, altogether, the total loss to the four stores Jones targeted was £2,926.73.