A shoplifter from Bury St Edmunds has been jailed for three months after reoffending.
Jake Cambridge, 29, and of Northgate Street in Bury St Edmunds, appeared before Suffolk Magistrates' Court on Friday, December 15.
Shop watch... Jake Cambridge of Bury St Edmunds has been convicted to three weeks in prison with an additional nine weeks for breaching his suspended sentence order. This is following being convicted for shoplifting on the 15th December at Ipswich Mags #BuryStEdsCPT pic.twitter.com/jbPM4bXgQR
— Bury St Edmunds Police (@BuryStEdsPolice) December 19, 2023
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He was charged with theft from a shop and sentenced to three weeks imprisonment, as well as being ordered to pay a £154 victim surcharge.
However, Cambridge had already been issued with a suspended sentence for shoplifting offences which saw a further nine weeks added to his sentence.
Altogether, the 29-year-old will serve a sentence of 12 weeks in jail.
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