A conman who booked expensive holidays for himself and his friends with stolen credit card details has been jailed for a year.

Bradford Crown Court had been told on an earlier occasion that Ishfaq Mohammed got the details from a credit card receipt that that he found in a bin on the street.

The court heard he booked holidays for himself and two friends to Dubai worth £2,145.

He was found out when the owner of the card, Catherine Williams, complained to her bank when she noticed the unauthorised transactions and police traced them back to Mohammed, who had booked the trips in his own name.

Judge Peter Benson had adjourned sentencing until yesterday so that he could be given full details of Mohammed's previous convictions.

Judge Benson was told the 31-year-old has been in court for conning people before. In 1992 he ran a scam claiming he was doing a parachute jump for charity and went around collecting money but simply pocketed the donations. The court heard he also ran similar scams saying he was collecting money for cancer schemes and various other charities.

And in 1998 he tried to cash phoney checks at Morrisons to the sum of £1,235.

The father-of-three pleaded guilty in court to three counts of obtaining property by deception.

His barrister, Abdul Iqbal, told the court that this was a man who could stay out of trouble in the future.

He said: "This money was spent on frivolous activity and that does not go in his favour but it was not the most sophisticated of offences.

"It was done to impress his friends and the transactions were easily traced back to him."

Mohammed, of Union Road, Great Horton, was told by Judge Benson that a custodial sentences was inevitable.

He said: "You enjoyed holidays using a stolen credit card. These were calculated pieces of dishonesty set against a background of someone who has behaved in that way on three separate occasions in the past.

"It paints a picture of you as a dishonest young man who takes advantage of other people if he can.

"There was not a massive degree of sophistication but these are serious matters."