A PEMBROKE woman has been jailed after theft and assaulting a police officer while serving a suspended sentence.

Alisha Stokes, aged 30, of Devon Drive, appeared before Haverfordwest Magistrates’ Court on Monday, June 9, with further sentencing taking place at Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on June 10.

Stokes pleaded guilty to four charges of theft from shops; two in Pembrokeshire. On May 1, at ASDA, Pembroke Dock, she had stolen meat products to the value of £119.46, then on June 7, at Home Bargains, Pembroke Dock, she stole various goods amounting to £149.28 in value.

Because the offences were committed during the operational period of a suspended sentence, Haverfordwest Magistrates activated the 26 week custodial sentence that had been suspended. In addition, two weeks were added for each theft, concurrent to each other but consecutive to the original sentence. Compensation matched the value of the goods stolen (£268.74 total).

Having pleaded guilty to four further charges, Stokes was remanded in custody for sentencing at Llanelli.

The convictions comprised two thefts in Swansea on January 22, one from Poundland (amounting to £40.75), the other from Tesco (totalling £81), resisting a constable at in the execution of his duty and assault by beating of an emergency worker, a police officer. The last two offences had taken place at Bridgend on January 23.

Taking into account the guilty pleas, Llanelli Court imposed no separate penalties for the two thefts at Swansea.

The assault on the emergency worker carried the heaviest penalty, regarded as an offence so serious that only a custodial sentence could be justified. Stokes was sentenced to 20 further weeks in prison, uplifted from 16 weeks. A concurrent sentence of four weeks was imposed for the offence of resisting a police constable.

Costs to Crown Prosecution Service were £85.