A MAN who stole a car and burgled a bakery has been put behind bars.

Robert James Boyt, 32 and of Lower Buckland Road, Lymington, was sentenced at Swindon Magistrates' Court on October 16.

The court heard Boyt stole a Toyota Yaris belonging to a man in Lymington between October 13 and October 14.

He drove the vehicle while disqualified, used it without insurance and made out without payment of £10.06 of fuel in Salisbury.

The defendant then entered Reeves the Bakers in the Wiltshire city on October 14 with intent to steal.

Boyt pleaded guilty to offences of burglary, making off without making payment, theft of a motor vehicle, driving while disqualified and using a motor vehicle without insurance.

Magistrates sentenced him to 44 weeks in prison and ordered him to pay £10.06 compensation for the fuel offence, £85 costs and a £156 surcharge.

He was also disqualified from driving for a further 18 months.

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