Craig Edwards (Image: Gwent Police)
A SHOPLIFTER has been jailed after he stole two garden strimmers worth £360 from B&Q.
Craig Edwards triggered a suspended prison sentence when he walked out of the DIY store on Newport’s Corporation Road store with them on Wednesday, May 29.
The defendant had been handed a six-month custodial term suspended for 12 months last December for theft, fraud and failing to surrender.
That sentence was activated at Newport Magistrates' Court.
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Edwards, 39, of Harlequin Drive, Newport was locked up for six months after he pleaded guilty to the theft of the garden strimmers.
He was ordered to pay compensation to B&Q.
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