A WOMAN who was caught shoplifting days after being put on a suspended sentence for robbery has been told she may not have to serve the full jail term.

Leanne Goldsmith, of The Heights, Kingshill, was warned she would be sent to jail if she breached the order when a judge imposed the suspended prison term last year.

But the 29-year-old was caught taking clothes from a town centre store 10 days after receiving the sentence for the violent attack in which a woman was stabbed.

And she also went stealing ‘to order’ from a department store as she sought to pay off old drug debts. Goldsmith pleaded guilty to three charges of theft, two of which put her in breach of a suspended sentence.

Now, after hearing she had a lengthy history of crime, Recorder Ian Lawrie decided he needed the probation service to compile a pre-sentence report to before deciding whether to activate the jail term in full or in part.

Adjourning the case for two weeks he said: “Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day her mucky habits aren’t cured in a day.”

Goldsmith is due back at Swindon Crown Court on February 28.