THE RINGLEADER of a gang who stole credit card details and used them to buy £7,000 of goods and then sell them on internet auction site eBay has been jailed.

Lee Goodchild stole the card details of eight customers who ordered takeaways from Domino’s Pizza in the Old Town where he worked.

Kate Mallinson, prosecuting, told Swindon Crown Court, Goodchild would ring the customers back after they placed their orders, asking for more information and the security number.

On one occasion a tall thin man fitting Goodchild’s description delivered a pizza and asked the customer to write their credit card number onto the back of a cheque.

“From May to August 2006 there were eight occasions when people phoning Domino’s Pizza had their details taken.”

Goodchild used the card details to order satellite navigation devices, tools and motorbike parts over the telephone from companies across Swindon.

Accomplice Richard Woodhouse was recognised by staff when he went to Skurrays, on Drove Road, to collect a TomTom sat nav, paid for using a stolen card number.

Drill parts bought from Marshall and Parsons using fraudulent details were then delivered to Woodhouse’s address in Stamford Close, Toothill.

Goodchild also used fraudulently obtained card details to buy tickets to the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford.

He bought 12 tickets, worth £309.50 each then arranged for them to be collected in person.

Goodchild sold all of the things he bought using stolen details on eBay.

“Someone at RIAT had suspicions and made a test purchase and got Lee Goodchild’s details,” said Miss Mallinson.

Goodchild also tried to buy a laptop and Yamaha parts and arranged for goods to be delivered to his second accomplice, Hayley Hosell’s address in Chester Street.

Miss Malllinson told the court Goodchild, 27, had a long list of previous convictions, including at least nine offences of fraud and obtaining services by deception.

Noel Sweeney, defending Goodchild, told the court: “Most men are immature and spend their lives proving it. He is a classic stereotype of that.”

Mr Sweeney explained that Goodchild’s life had descended into a spiral of substance abuse and criminality since his father died of a heart attack in front of him when he was 17.

Mr Sweeny said that since he was last released from prison in March, Goodchild had been getting his life back on track and had taken custody of his three-year-old son Oakley.

Sentencing Goodchild to 24 months in custody, Judge Douglas Field said: “You are 27 and a thoroughly devious and dishonest person. That is illustrated by your appalling record and your role in undertaking this serious criminality.

“You obtained the information on these credit cards, then dishonestly used them to obtain goods, then dishonestly disposed of them, mainly on eBay.

“Some of these offences were committed while you were on bail, making them even more serious.”

Hosell, 23, of Albion Street, was given a conditional discharge after the court heard she had no previous convictions and had only been paid £20 for her part in receiving goods bought with the stolen card details.

Woodhouse, 28, of Stamford Close, was given a 36 week sentence, suspended for 12 months. He was ordered to complete 200 hours of unpaid work and given a curfew banning him from leaving his home between 7pm and 7am.

All three pleaded guilty to their parts in the plot.