A CRACK addict thief who went missing from the probation service for more than a year returned to Oxford to face justice.

Jason Glover, 35, was given one last chance to behave himself at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Tuesday(feb2).

The court heard how Glover, a crack and heroin addict, was caught stealing £105.47 worth of air fresheners from a Co-op in Oxford on October 15, 2014.

He admitted theft and was given a community order requiring him to meet regularly with a probation officer.

A member of the probation service told the court Glover had initially met with his officer, but after failing to make a November meeting, he disappeared.

He was not seen again until a police officer arrested him in Oxford on Friday(jan29) last week.

The probation officer said Glover had told police he went missing "in his desperation to get off Class A drugs".

Apparently a friend had offered him a place to stay in London and work at a marina on the condition he not take any Class A drugs.

Sentencing, District Judge Booker told Glover: "One more chance, okay?

"If you let me down over the next 12 months I'll have very little sympathy."

He handed Glover a new community order, requiring him to stay at his mother's house in Barton, with a three-month curfew between 7pm and 7am Monday to Friday.

He also ordered him to provide samples for drug testing for the next six months and ordered him to pay a £60 victims' surcharge and £50 costs.