A BRADFORD man has appeared in court charged with stealing boxes of washing powder from a city shop.

Michael Thwaites, 39, of Grantham Road, Bradford, was handed a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay a £22 victim surcharge for stealing six boxes of Surf washing powder, worth a total of £42, from Wilko, Rawson Quarter, John Street, Bradford, on September 17, 2021.

He pleaded guilty when he appeared at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on October 9, 2021.