SHE’S 29 and has 68 offences under her belt – but Leanne Goldsmith has walked free from court yet again, this time after a shoplifting charge.

The repeat offender was back before Swindon Crown Court this week accused of having shoplifted just days after her court appearance last August for a robbery in which a woman was stabbed.

Goldsmith, of The Heights, Old Town, was given a suspended jail term last summer for her part in the robbery and was told by the judge she would face jail if she breached the order.

But instead, Recorder Ian Lawrie this week scrapped the one-year suspended jail term passed in August and replaced it with a two-year community order as punishment for her latest crime.

The court heard Goldsmith had continued to use cocaine, despite being put on a drug rehabilitation requirement, and that she was still stealing.

Judge Lawrie said if she broke the two-year order, she would be jailed for longer than the one-year maximum for a suspended sentence.

He also told her she would be under supervision for that time and would have to complete any programme probation recommended, as well as another drug rehabilitation requirement.

“I should be sending you to prison. Not only do you commit an offence of robbery in the street with your mates with a weapon, then you go thieving from shops,” he said.

“It would be very easy just to lock you up, keep you out of circulation, give the shopkeepers in Swindon a bit of respite from your thieving, but I have got to look at the future.

“I am going to give you a non-custodial sentence. I could give you a suspended sentence, I could give you 12 months – that is too little.”

And he warned her: “If you breach this order I reserve it to this court and I reserve it to myself because I have taken a quantum leap.

“Prove me wrong if you don’t you go to prison, and it will be more than 12 months, I can assure you of that. Don’t misuse the opportunity given to you.”

Goldsmith was put on the one-year jail term suspended for two years on August 27 last year, 10 days after she had been caught stealing a £35 child’s coat from Monsoon.

She was spotted again on September 6 taking two handbags worth £87 from the same store, and on January 5 this year she took a £100 leather coat from House of Fraser, which she told police was to settle a drug debt.

Goldsmith pleaded guilty to three charges of theft, two of which put her in breach of a suspended sentence.

The suspended sentence was imposed for a robbery where she and a friend targeted another woman as she went to work at about 5.30am.

After hassling and manhandling her in the street, Goldsmith’s accomplice used a pair of nail scissors to stab the victim in the buttocks before they fled with her handbag.

Martin Wiggins, defending, said the shoplifting took place when she was out drunk, apart from the third one when she was put under pressure by a dealer to settle an old debt.