Prolific Shrewsbury shoplifter gets suspended sentence to help her beat drug habit
A woman who admitted 14 charges of shoplifting in Shrewsbury to feed her drug habit has avoided an immediate prison sentence for the second time.
Magistrates in Telford have handed Molly Jones, aged 27, a suspended jail sentence to run concurrently with a similar sentence that she was recently handed at Shrewsbury Crown Court.
Jones pleaded guilty on Wednesday to stealing more than £1,239 worth of goods from retailers in the county including Marks & Spencer, Boots, Superdrug and Matalan.
Telford Magistrates Court was told that Jones, who joined Wednesday's hearing via a video link from custody, had been sentenced at Shrewsbury Crown Court to nine months imprisonment suspended for two years for shop thefts.
Kim Roberts, in mitigation, told the court that when Jones had been released from custody at Shrewsbury Crown Court a mix-up meant she was not accepted on a drug rehabilitation course.
She asked for the court to hand down another suspended sentence to run concurrently with the one given to Jones earlier in the month.
"This would allow her on her release to take advantage of the Willowdene rehabilitation programme," said Miss Roberts.
