A MAN is to be sentenced by a crown court after he admitted stealing more than £1,300 worth of alcohol from a Aglionby restaurant.

Jorden Gargett, 23, of Shildon in Durham, admitted entering the Rahi Indian Restaurant as a trespasser, before then stealing alcohol worth £1,345.

The incident took place on May 14 last year, with Gargett admitting the offence before Carlisle Magistrates' Court on February 9.

Gargett will be sentenced at Carlisle Crown Court on March 13.

He was also sentenced for driving a car while over the legal limit of benzoylecgonine (the main metabolite of cocaine), while over the legal limit of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (the principal psychoactive constituent of cannabis) and for driving without insurance.

All three offences relate to driving in Durham on October 14 last year, with Gargett admitting all three offences.

Gargett was found to have 153 micrograms of benzoylecgonine per litre of blood. The legal limit is 50 microgrammes per litre of blood.

He also had more than seven micrograms of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol per litre of blood. The legal limit is two micrograms.

For the benzoylecgonine offence he was committed to prison for six weeks, ordered to pay a surcharge to fund victim services of £115, was disqualified from holding or obtaining a driving licence for two years, and was ordered to pay £85 in costs to the Crown Prosecution Service.

In relation to the driving without insurance charge, no further penalty was imposed.

Gargett was given a six week sentence for the delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol offence, which will run concurrently to the other six week sentence.