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A ‘prolific’ shoplifter who attacked a man in a Co-op store has been handed a prison sentence according to a court document.

Leith Mohammed, 35, of Hollington Old Lane, St Leonards, was found guilty of attempting to steal meat worth £15 and chocolate worth £6 from Co-op at London Road, St Leonards, on January 14. He was also found guilty of assault by beating at the London Road Co-op on the same date.  He was found guilty of stealing bath products worth £15 from Lloyds Pharmacy, in Battle Road, St Leonards, on December 21.  All the verdicts were proved in his absence.

SEE ALSO: Forty year old Hastings woman in possession of heroin and crack cocaine He pleaded guilty to stealing chocolate worth £94 from Co-op in Bexhill, on December 2 and to stealing meat and cheese of an unknown value from Co-op at Battle Road, St Leonards, on January 10. He pleased guilty to failing to surrender to court custody at Hastings on March 6.  He was sentenced to a total of 18 months in prison and ordered to pay £250 in compensation for the assault.

Magistrates said the sentence was because he was ‘a prolific shoplifter and that drug taking was involved’.

Hastings shoplifter who assaulted man in store is sent to prison