A THIEF has been jailed after breaking into a fast-food restaurant and stealing more than £1,000 worth of food and electronics.

Jason Bourton, 44, was caught on July 9 last year trespassing into a KFC restaurant in Oxford and stealing £1,031 worth of electronics and food.

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Three months later, on October 6 he was caught with a Samsung Tablet belonging to an Oxford charity – Helen and Douglas House – the value of £300.

He was charged with theft by finding, Oxford Crown Court heard.

On November 10, he stole six bottles of Irish cream to the value of £29.94 from an Oxford Aldi store.

Bourton, of no fixed abode, was jailed for 16 months and one day at Oxford Crown Court yesterday (January 15).