A PROLIFIC shoplifter has been jailed and given a two-year ban from Leeds city centre.

Andrew Milnes targeted the John Lewis store in Leeds on three occasions stealing fragrance and electric toothbrush heads worth about £1,000. 

Milnes, aged 56, of Shakespeare Approach, Burmantofts, was sentenced to eight weeks' imprisonment when he appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court last week. 

Following an application by specialist anti-social behaviour link officer PC Phil Underdown, of the Leeds Anti-Social Behaviour Team, magistrates also imposed a two-year Criminal Behaviour Order which includes an exclusion from the city centre on his release from prison. 

Where the order bars Andrew Milnes from 

The order bars him from entering the area bordered by and including Inner Ring Road, Willow Terrace Road, Calverley Street, Portland Street, Great George Street, Inner Ring Road, Westgate, East Parade, King Street, Wellington Street, New Station Street, Swinegate, The Calls, Call Lane, High Court, Kirkgate, St Peters Street and Eastgate, Crown Point Road, Bowman Lane, Waterloo Street, Hunslet Road, Bridge End, Sovereign Street, Neville Street, Bishopgate Street except to attend court, probation, solicitors, DWP or hospital for either personal medical treatment or visiting a relative who is an inpatient. 

It also prohibits him from being in possession of any drugs paraphernalia, glue, gases, solvents or aerosols intended for substance misuse, anywhere within West Yorkshire. 

He cannot be in possession of any medication not prescribed by a medically licenced professional and not intended for use by him, other than over-the-counter medication, anywhere within West Yorkshire. 

Shops in West Yorkshire Milnes is banned from

The order also specifically bans him from entering any JD Sports, Fishing Republic, The Hip Store, Blacks, Millets, Ultimate Outdoors, GO Outdoors, Size?, Naylors, Infinities, Wellgosh, Oi Polloi, Tiso, Wheelbase, and Sports Direct stores in West Yorkshire. 

Any breach of the order means he commits a criminal offence and can be arrested and prosecuted and could receive a further prison sentence.