A PROLIFIC Oldham shoplifter was jailed for 12 weeks following a crime spree in which he targeted Chadderton's Boots store 10 times.
Robert Dunne, aged 45, of Oxford Street, Werneth, pleaded guilty to a total of 11 counts of theft during August, September, October and November last year at a hearing at Tameside Magistrates Court on January 23.
He was given a 12-week prison sentence for stealing £100 worth of confectionary from the Boots store on November 16.
He was given 10 separate12-week prison sentences to run concurrently for nine other thefts from the outlet, which totalled £1,297.50, and included £332 worth of skincare products on October 20, a £150 bath spa on September 19 and for stealing £220 worth of meat from an Oldham Co-op store on August 31.
He was ordered to pay £250 compensation to Boots and £50 compensation to the Co-op.
In a separate hearing on January 23 at Tameside Magistrates he was given a three-week prison sentence to run concurrently for stealing £75 worth of diesel from H&B Logisitics, in Chadderton, on January 13.
Dunne was also charged with syphoning fuel from a Heavy Goods Vehicle in the yard of H&B Logistics on the same date but no separate penalty was imposed for the offence.
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