A serial shoplifter with dozens of previous convictions has been jailed after breaking an order that banned him from Co-op supermarkets.

David Mundy, of Farndale Close, returned to Swindon Magistrates' Court on May 31 to face sentencing for seven new offences.

The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to stealing goods from the Tesco Express in The Circle and taking meat, alcohol, and household cleaning items worth £41.70 altogether from the Co-op on Highdown Way in Blunsdon on May 5.

He also admitted to taking other meat, alcohol, and household items worth a total of £81.45 from the same Blunsdon shop on May 23, shoplifting beer worth £6.80 and chocolate worth £33 from the Beechcroft Road Co-op on May 26, not paying for meat worth £100 at the Tesco on Elstree Way on May 27, and then stealing laundry products worth £100 from the same Tesco on May 29.

Mundy has been put behind bars for six months due to the seriousness of the offences, the fact that these new crimes were committed while he was on licence and a suspended sentence order, and the defendant's previous criminal record of 41 convictions for 254 offenses, as well as his failure to respond to non-custodial sentences.

He must also pay £154 to fund victim services.