A SHOPLIFTER has been given a conditional discharge after magistrates heard he had been working well with the probation service.

Ryan Heywood, 42, was filmed on Skipton Tesco's CCTV pushing a trolley around the store on January 18, heard Skipton Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Some items he put in the trolley, and paid for at the checkout, but not other items to the value of £38 he had placed in his pockets and a cold bag, the court heard.

Heywood, who admitted shop theft, and who last year was convicted for burglary, had been short of money and hungry, the court was told in mitigation.

Mitigating, Keith Blackwell, said Heywood regretted what he had done. He had been taking drugs since he was 14 years old; he was now on Methadone and was working with a drug agency to beat his addiction.

In addition, Tesco had told him if he was hungry again to ask for one of the supermarket's food parcels.

Magistrates told Heywood, Keighley Road, that they understood he was working with probation and gave him a 12-month conditional discharge. He will have to pay £38 compensation to Tesco. There was no order for costs or a surcharge.