Nottingham shoplifter, Gurdeep Virdee, sent to jail after taking Lynx deodorant and boxer shorts from Next

A serial shoplifter has been jailed for 10 weeks after confessing to thefts the police did not even know about.

Gurdeep Virdee, who has 57 previous convictions for dishonesty, committed a string of thefts between April 18 and May 22.

But when he was stopped by police over two of them, he admitted to having stolen even more things that same day.

The 40-year-old, of The Wells Road, St Ann's, appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court yesterday, when he pleaded guilty to seven charges of theft from a shop.

Prosecutor Nicole Hepburn told the court the items he had snatched ranged from Lynx deodorant to tins of halal salmon. She said: "On April 18 at the Next store in the Victoria Centre, he stole boxer shorts to the value of £1000 and on May 12, he stole fourteen boxes of Ferrero Rocher chocolates. On the same day, he stole seven bottles of sun cream from Superdrug in the Victoria Centre."

She said he had stolen four hundred jars of coffee from Aldi on May 4, coffee from Tesco on May 15 and 21 tins of salmon and four Lynx deodorants from Waitrose on May 22.

She added: "An aggravating feature is the fact he has a propensity for this offence, with 57 previous offences of dishonesty on his record."

Chairman of the bench David 'Stumpy' Wilson said: "Given the amount of previous convictions you have for the same offence, we are going to impose a custodial sentence."

Virdee was also ordered to pay an £80 victim surcharge and a £180 court charge.

This bastard wants his hands cutting off - vote BNP and we'll do it.