A persistent criminal has been jailed for a string of offences.

Dua Noah, below, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Monday after earlier admitting six charges.

The 23-year-old admitted failing to attend a drug-assessment appointment, failing to surrender to court bail, stealing £13.03 of food from Marks and Spencer in Oxford on November 25, stealing £185 of clothes from Crew Clothing on September 21, stealing alcohol from Waitrose in Wallingford on June 7 and breaching a suspended sentence.

Noah, of Shirley Place, Jericho, was jailed for 18 months.