A BRADFORD man has been jailed for a number of charges of stealing vodka from shops in the city.

Paul O'Hara, 35, of Reevy Crescent, Buttershaw, was jailed for a total of 18 weeks for nine counts of theft from a shop. Each of the individual prison terms will run consecutively.

O'Hara pleaded guilty to all offences when he appeared before Bradford & Keighley Magistrates' Court on June 28, 2021.

He was jailed for two weeks for stealing three bottles of vodka, worth a total of £57, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 25, 2021.

He was jailed for a further two weeks and ordered to pay a £128 victims surcharge for stealing three bottles of vodka, worth a total of £57, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 22, 2021.

O'Hara was jailed for two weeks for stealing three bottles of vodka, worth a total of £57, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 21, 2021.

He was committed to prison for two weeks for stealing two bottles of vodka, worth a total of £40, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 19, 2021.

He was jailed for two weeks for stealing two bottles of vodka, worth a total of £40, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 3, 2021.

O'Hara was jailed for two weeks for stealing two bottles of vodka, with a total of £40, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 5, 2021.

He was jailed for two weeks for stealing razor blades and shaving products, worth a total of £140, from Tesco, Halifax Road, Bradford, on May 5, 2021.

He was committed to prison for two weeks for stealing two bottles of vodka, worth a total of £40, from the Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 12, 2021.

He was jailed for two weeks for stealing one chocolate bars and two bottles of vodka, worth a total of £41, from Co-op, Fair Road, Bradford, on May 14, 2021.

O'Hara was jailed as the offences was deemed so serious because they was aggravated by being committed whilst subject to a community sentence, because the offence was aggravated by the defendant's record of previous offending.