POLICE who "collared" a man as he left a Blackburn store discovered he had stolen £87 worth of dog collars.
Blackburn magistrates heard Paul Brown was taken back into Poundstretcher where staff confirmed he had been in three days earlier and stolen £100 worth of toilet rolls which he had thrown over a wall to an accomplice.
Brown, 42, of Bolton Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to two charges of shoplifting. He was fined £40 and ordered to pay £100 compensation, £85 costs and £34 victim surcharge.
The magistrates decided not to activate a suspended sentence order imposed for burglary offences after hearing it was just two weeks from expiring.
Colleen Dickinson-Jones, defending, said her client said the offences were just a blip.
"He is now free of drugs but around these few days he had taken some tablets which interfered with his judgement," said Mrs Dickinson-Jones.
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