Crime definitely didn't pay for one Carlisle thief - after a bungled attempt to steal meat worth £42 costs her more than four times that amount.
At the city's Rickergate magistrates' court, Kylie Victoria Crothers, 30, admitted stealing the meat from an Iceland store in Carlisle on September 1.
The defendant, of Botcherby Avenue, Botcherby, was given a £40 fine, with court costs of £85, and a £30 victim surcharge.
Magistrates also imposed an additional £25 fine because her latest theft put her in breach of a conditional discharge imposed for an earlier theft.
That was imposed by the court in August for a theft offence committed in July when Crothers stole cleaning and laundry items worth £50 from the city's Asda store.
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