A man who shoplifted from two Co-op stores in Ipswich and Stowmarket has been jailed for six months after the offences put him in breach of a suspended prison sentence.

Darren Wragg was given an 18 month prison sentence suspended for two years on June 20 last year for being involved in the supply of cocaine and heroin and he breached the sentence by shoplifting at the Co-op stores in June and July this year, Ipswich Crown Court heard.

Wragg, 34, of Campbell Road, Ipswich, admitted stealing laundry detergent and meat from the Co-op store in Combs Lane, Stowmarket on June 16,  stealing packets of steak on two occasions from the Co-op store in Hening Avenue, Ipswich in July and breaching the suspended prison sentence.

He was given a six month prison sentence for breaching the suspended sentence and the two shoplifting offences.

Adam Norris for Wragg said his client had struggled with drug use.