A SERIAL offender has been jailed after he stole more than £100 of women’s clothing.

Beau James Houghton stole £110 of women’s clothing from Marks and Spencer in Swindon on June 27.

He also stole a bike in the town on July 7.

He pleaded guilty to one count of shoplifting and one count of bike theft.

Magistrates jailed the 45-year-old for a total of 12 weeks.

He must also pay £110 in compensation to Marks and Spencer.

They deemed the offence so serious because “the defendant has a flagrant disregard for court orders, because the offence was aggravated by the defendant’s record of previous offending”.

At the hearing at Swindon Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday (September 6), it was heard Houghton, of Groves Street, was under a community order, imposed on June 6 for six counts of theft.

The order was revoked and he was resentenced to prison.

He had been in court earlier this year for a number of other theft offences.

Houghton had admitted stealing a £31 jumper from the Puma store at the Designer Outlet on June 9, and washing up liquid from Iceland in Havelock Square five days earlier.

In a hearing on June 13, was fined £50 each for the two thefts, ordered to pay a £34 victim surcharge and banned from entering the Designer Outlet for a year.