A WOMAN has been jailed for a string of charges including assault and possessing an imitation firearm at a Bradford shopping centre last month. 

Abigail Spalding, 19, of no fixed address, was jailed for a total of 16 weeks.

She was jailed for eight weeks for a charge of assault by beating at JD Sports in The Broadway on April 26.

Spalding was committed to prison for eight weeks, to run consecutively, for another count of assault by beating, at the same shop on the same day.

She was also jailed for four weeks, to run concurrently, for possessing an imitation firearm in a public place.

Spalding was caught with a realistic-looking BB gun in JD Sports on April 26.

She was also committed to prison for four weeks, to run concurrently, for stealing a Nike tracksuit, worth £150, from the shop on the same day. 

Spalding was also given a four-week prison sentence, to run concurrently, for stealing baby formula, worth £32, from Boots in the Forster Square Retail Park on  April 12.

Spalding pleaded guilty to all offences when she was sentenced at Bradford & Keighley Magistrates’ Court on April 27.