A BRADFORD man has been given suspended jail terms for offences including stealing two bottles of alcohol from a shop.

Matthew McDonald, 28, of Leeds Road, was committed to prison for two months, suspended for 12 months, ordered to pay a £128 victim surcharge and £85 costs for stealing two bottles of alcohol, worth a total of £52, from Morrisons, Rushton Avenue, Bradford, on June 19, 2020.

He was committed to prison for one month, suspended for 12 months, for failing to surrender to police/court bail at the appointed time, on June 21, 2021.

McDonald was given the suspended sentence as the offence so serious as they involved a degree of planning/professionalism.

He pleaded guilty to both charges at Bradford & Keighley Magistrates’ Court on November 29, 2021.