A prolific shoplifter has been jailed for a year after being convicted of a total of 18 shoplifting offences.

Justin Godefroy, aged 28, was sentenced at Plymouth Magistrates’ Court last Monday [August 4] after entering guilty pleas to the charges. He was also ordered to pay £600 compensation to the Co-op.

Godefroy’s offending included the theft of the following, all from various Co-Op stores around Plymouth - including Devonport Road and Albert Road - across a number of dates over the summer. The court heard Godefroy, of no fixed abode, was already on licence for previous offences at the time of the offences.

His haul included:

• Food worth £60

• Laundry products worth £50

• Meat and cheese worth £80

• Meat and laundry products worth £100

• Meat, coffee and detergent worth £115

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