A SHOPLIFTER punched a store manageress in the face when she challenged her outside a shop.
Blackburn magistrates heard Zoey Marie Daly had been pressurised into the offence by an ex-partner who wanted money to buy drugs.
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District Judge John Maxwell told Daly he hoped the sentence he imposed would enable her to get away from drugs and the influences that go with them.
Daly, 30, of Wellington Street, Accrington, pleaded guilty to theft of lamb worth £20 from Farmfoods and assaulting Debbie Horrocks.
She was sentenced to five weeks in prison suspended for 12 months with a nine months drug rehabilitation requirement and 20-day rehabilitation activity. She was ordered to pay £100 compensation to Ms Horrocks.
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