A SHOPLIFTER who became the scourge of traders in his home city of Liverpool has been locked up by a judge in a bid to protect Burnley shopkeepers from the same fate.
Jason Miles, 31, had almost 100 previous convictions and was told by District Judge John Sawyer: "This campaign will be brought to an end one way or another."
Miles, now of Leyland Road, Burnley, had admitted theft of coffee and wine worth £100, a second count of theft and breach of a community punishment order.
He was remanded in custody until November 15.
The judge said the shopkeepers of Liverpool must have "quaked in their boots," when they saw Miles going into town.
He said Miles had not only been responsible for his own conduct but had been "leading astray," Claire Forbes, the mother of his seven-month-old child.
Forbes, 21, also of Leyland Road, who is a mother of two, sobbed in the dock as she admitted one count of theft and was bailed until November 26, for a pre-sentence report.
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