‘Pay? You’re having a laugh’

8:30am Sunday 21st March 2010

WHEN staff approached a prolific shoplifter and asked if he intended paying for wine he had selected, he replied: “You’re having a laugh.”

Brian Jones, 38, admitted five charges of stealing Marks & Spencer foodstuffs and alcohol worth about £470.

Jones, of Byron Road, Southampton, received a 25-week suspended sentence coupled with 50 hours community service and 12 months supervision.

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