Serial shoplifter from Spalding faces prison if he re-offends

A serial shoplifter will face prison if he re-offends.

Benjamin Jenkins admitted 15 counts of theft when he appeared at Boston Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (December 12).

Springfields Outlet and Spalding’s Wygate Park Co-op were among the stores he had attempted to steal from.

Forty-year-old Jenkins was was sentenced to 26 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.

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Jenkins, of Park Road, Spalding, was also ordered to pay £85 costs and the £154 victim surcharge.