A PROLIFIC Taunton shoplifter has been jailed for nine separate thefts.

Homeless Laura Thistleton, 31, who gave her address as East Reach, appeared at Taunton Magistrates' Court accused of committing a further offence in breach of a suspended sentence order that had been made on February 5.

Magistrates sentenced her for the nine previous shoplifting offences which had each attracted eight-week prison sentences suspended for a year.

 

 

Thistleton was jailed for a total of eight weeks when she appeared in the court on February 29, less four weeks after her previous appearance.

Here original shoplifting offences were all committed in October and November last year.