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Credit: Alfie Reynolds<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>He also disclosed his client\u2019s account of the whereabouts of the jewellery pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ten items were apparently sold on at \u00a33 apiece \u2013 something Mr McSorley argued was below the usual illicit market rate of 50% of stolen goods&#8217; retail price, citing the current economic climate as reason for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When she committed the crime, 37-year-old Jones was only three weeks into a 12-month community order following a previous offence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has 62 convictions for 470 previous offences &#8211; 130 of them theft-related, dating back as far as 2002, as well as a history of substance abuse, according to her lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the community order, she has been attending rehabilitation sessions to deal with her class A drug abuse &#8211; something which her solicitor Mr McSorley described as a \u201chistory of chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since attending the sessions, Jones has regularly been taking her medication and is now clean from illicit substances, according to her lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chair of the bench, Patricia Blackwell, praised the defendant in response to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing really well on the course and we don\u2019t get many people doing as well as you at this stage of it,\u201d she told Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court ordered the defendant to pay a \u00a340 fine and \u00a3250 compensation to Tesco, alongside a \u00a316 surcharge. 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