A MAN has been handed a community order after stealing items from a supermarket in Droitwich.

The order came after he had already been given a year-long conditional discharge for stealing more than £450 worth of goods from two stores in Malvern.

Mark Hewitt, 40, of Manor Lane in Stourbridge, pleaded guilty at Worcester Magistrates Court on January 5 after stealing £30 worth of items from BP Marks and Spencer on Worcester Road, Droitwich, on October 30, 2020.

He was fined £10 and ordered to pay £30 compensation.

Hewitt committed the offence whilst subject to a 12-month conditional discharge order which was imposed by the same court on October 22 last year, after he stole a jacket from Mountain Warehouse in Malvern which cost £12.99 on September 20, 2020.

He also stole various items totalling £453.99 from Boots’ Malvern branch on the same day.

On the same day at the magistrates court, a 35-year-old man from Worcester who had no insurance was banned from the roads for a year after drug driving

Adam O’Brien, 35, of Rydal Close, Worcester, pleaded guilty at Magistrates Court after he was caught behind the wheel of an uninsured blue Ford Fiesta on St Georges Lane North in Worcester on May 2 last year.

An evidential test revealed he had cocaine in his blood which exceeded the limit, as well as a quantity of Benzoylecgonine, a cocaine by-product, in his blood which also exceeded the specified limit.

He was fined £120, and ordered to pay £34 victim surcharge, and to pay costs of £80 to the CPS for drug driving.

O’Brien was also fined £120 for driving while uninsured and £40 for driving the Ford Fiesta without the required licence.

He pleaded guilty to all charges.