A woman has been jailed after she stole £25 from a blind man’s pocket.

Tammy Duignan, 34, entered the home of Donna Chapman on April 8 this year after knocking on the door and asking to borrow some coffee, Bradford Crown Court heard yesterday.

The court was told Miss Chapman’s boyfriend Adrian Saunders, who is registered blind and partially deaf, answered the door.

He asked her to wait at the doorstep but she made her way into the lounge and stole a mobile phone belonging to Miss Chapman, who has cerebral palsy, is blind in one eye and has mobility problems.

Prosecutor Camille Morland said Duignan was then, “insistent and pushy”, asking Saunders for money until he gave her £2 and she left.

She said the defendant returned to the house about half an hour later and when Mr Saunders answered the door, she took £25 from his trouser pocket.

Duignan was also sentenced yesterday for a theft in June.

The prosecutor said the defendant had entered the home of a woman whom she knew, through a door which had been left unlocked, before taking a purse from the woman’s handbag Duignan, the court heard, has 31 convictions for 68 offences, including thefts, criminal damage and being drunk and disorderly.

Sentencing her to 15 months in prison, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC said: “I am sorry to say your offending is typical of somebody who has gone off the rails – drink, drugs, homeless.

“You should not have targeted Donna Chapman. You have had a tough life but that lady, partially blind and paralysed, and her friend Adrian, blind in effect, you behaved very badly towards them.

“They are kind people. You must never attack people like them again or you will go to prison for a very, very long time.”

For the burglary of Miss Chapman’s home Duignan, of Church Street, Keighley, was given a 15-month jail sentence. For the theft from Mr Saunders she was sentenced to nine months to run alongside the first sentence and for the theft in June she was given a six-month sentence, also to run concurrently.

Barrister Stephen Wood said Duignan’s offending may have been a result of drinking, drug taking and a “long psychiatric history”.