Man, 41, jailed for six weeks after shoplifting in Aldershot

A man has been jailed for six weeks after pleading guilty to shoplifting in Aldershot.

Richard Burns, 41, of Grosvenor Road, Aldershot, was charged with theft from a shop and using threatening / abusive / insulting words / behaviour to cause harassment / alarm /distress.

It comes after officers received a report that alcohol had been stolen from the Tesco store on Wellington Avenue on Monday 8 January.

Meanwhile, officers received a separate report that a man in his 30s was threatened at the same store the following day (9 January).

Burns pleaded guilty to both offences and was jailed for six weeks at Basingstoke Magistrates Court on Friday 12 January.