Cases dealt with at Leicester Magistrates' Court include:
Graham Baxter (57), of Dunslade Grove, Market Harborough, was committed to prison for four weeks after pleading guilty to stealing cider worth £2.99 from the Co-Op, Coventry Road, Market Harborough, on July 30, and a further four weeks, to run consecutively, after admitting stealing beer worth £13.99 from Emerson and West, Market Harborough, the following day. Both offences were committed while Baxter was on a community order and he asked for two other offences to be taken into consideration.
Martin Powell (33), of Aikman Avenue, New Parks, pleaded guilty to stealing washing gel and energy drinks worth £29.94 from the Stocking Farm Post Office, Marwood Road, Leicester, on June 13, 2013. He got a 12-month supervised community order including attending six months' drug dependency treatment and probation appointments and was ordered to pay £29.94 compensation.
Matthew John Greasley (18), of Fosse Road North, Leicester, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle worth £100 in Leicester on July 22. He was given an 18-month community order, including 120 hours' unpaid work, to be carried out within the next 12 months and attending probation appointments. Greasley was also ordered to pay a £60 victim surcharge and £40 costs.
Mary Cook (47), of Sandhurst Street, Oadby, pleaded guilty to a joint offence of stealing items worth £47.58 from Asda, Leicester Road, Oadby, on July 15. She was discharged conditionally for 12 months and ordered to pay a £15 victim surcharge and £35 costs.
Alan Hobson (41), of Cheney Road, off Barkbythorpe Road, Leicester, pleaded guilty to driving in Barkbythorpe on June 1 with 92 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 milliletres of blood. The legal maximum is 80mg. He was disqualified from having a driving licence for 12 months, fined £350 and ordered to pay £85 costs with a £35 victim surcharge.