A 25-year-old man who snatched a shopping bag from a woman in broad daylight has been jailed for a total of three years and nine months.

Bradford Crown Court heard how Hazel Mackie was walking home in the Clayton Heights area of the city one afternoon last October when she came face-to-face with Lee Naylor. She tried to resist him when he grabbed her bag but he slapped her in the face, causing her to fall. Naylor then fled from the scene and got into a car before his accomplice Linda Inseal drove them away.

On the same day, Inseal was also the driver of a car involved in another robbery. Katherine Leech had just got off her bike by her garage door when a man grabbed her shopping bag and ran to a car.

Prosecutor Andrew Semple said Inseal stole a handbag from a trolley outside Asda supermarket in Shipley in a separate incident a month earlier.

On that occasion, an 82-year-old man was about to unload the shopping when Inseal ran towards

In December 2001, Inseal tried to cash a stolen income support book before it was seized.

Five months later, she cashed two other benefit books after they were stolen in a burglary.

Meanwhile, Naylor was spotted driving a Vauxhall Corsa last August after it had been reported missing. When officers began to follow the vehicle, he drove away at speed and went down a cul-de-sac. Naylor jumped from the car but was arrested a short distance away.

Naylor, of Bracewell Avenue, Allerton, pleaded guilty to robbery and aggravated vehicle taking. He was banned from driving for two years and ordered to take an extended driving test.

Inseal, 42, of Draughton Street, Bankfoot, Brad-ford, pleaded guilty to three charges of handling stolen goods, two of obtaining property by deception, two of robbery, one of theft and one of attempting to obtain property by deception.

Mitigating for Inseal, Neil Clark told the court she had been influenced when she acted out of character. Mitigating for Naylor, Colin Harvey said his client was "absolutely ashamed of the chaos he has caused over the last 12 years of his life".

Inseal was made the subject of a community rehabilitation order for two years.