A MAN has been given a suspended prison sentence after admitting to breaking into a sandwich shop and stealing £425 in cash.

Burnley magistrates were told how 49-year-old Shaun Thomas Ross committed the offence at Nice Bites, Burnley Road, Padiham, on November 24.

The court heard on December 4, Ross stole a transformed drill extension and tile cutter belonging to a man referred to in court as Mr Atkinson. That offence also took place in Padiham.

Ross, of Burnley Road, Padiham, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft.

By committing the second offence, Ross was in breach of a conditional discharge imposed by Lancaster magistrates on May 25 of this year for failing to surrender to custody.

Ross, who also goes by the aliases Sean Thomas Ross, Shaun T Ross, Shaun Ross and Rossy, was sentenced to 12 weeks’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months for the sandwich shop burglary and six weeks, suspended for 12 months, for the tool theft.

Magistrates also imposed an eight-week curfew banning Ross from leaving his home between 8pm and 7am.

Ross was ordered to pay costs of £42.50 and a £115 victim surcharge.

Ross was given no separate penalty for breaching the conditional discharge.