MAGISTRATES have jailed a woman for stealing alcohol from shops in Basingstoke.
Isobel Hughes stole five bottles of Jack Daniels from Waitrose, to the value of £137.50, on January 29, this year.
She also took another three bottles of Jack Daniels on the same day, worth £88 from Sainsbury’s.
On January 26, she also stole 11 bottles of alcohol from another shop in the town, to the value of £460.
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In Fleet on April 7, Hughes took two bottles of Canadian Club, along with two lamb shoulder joints and a lamb leg joint, from Waitrose.
On April 4, she targeted the same shop and stole a bottle of Jack Daniels to the value of £22.
The 28-year-old, of Portsmouth, pleaded guilty to five counts of theft from a shop during a hearing at Basingstoke Magistrates’ Court on June 4.
Hughes was jailed for eight weeks due to her previous record of offending and because the ‘offences were so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified’.
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