A THIEF was sent to jail for 16 weeks for three counts of shoplifting.
Kevin Kenny, 40, of Oxford Street, Long Eaton, pleaded guilty at Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court to stealing hair straighteners from Wilkinson in Long Eaton on December 11; for stealing £86 worth of meat from the Co-op in Long Eaton five days later; and for stealing meat worth £32.50 from the Co-op on January 4.
Magistrates handed him a prison sentence because of his previous record for persistent shoplifting.
He was also ordered to pay £105 compensation.
