A pregnant woman who stole Mexican pesos and tried to flog them to a travel agents was jailed after attempting to shoplift from Asda.
Gemma Whalley's failed bid to steal perfume and clothes breached a suspended prison sentence handed to her when she threw a vodka bottle at another woman.
The "serial" offender was today sentenced for the breach - and the peso theft from a Birkenhead flat - at Liverpool Crown Court.
Whalley was pregnant when a suspicious security guard stopped her after she left the changing rooms at the Ellesmere Port branch of Asda in May.
The 26-year-old revealed three perfume bottles and clothing that had a combined value of £130.50, none of which had been paid for.
The crime was committed while she was the subject of a 12 month suspended sentence handed to her last year.
That was for an offence of wounding after she threw a spirits bottle at another woman, leaving her victim with a five centimetre cut to her head.
Today, Whalley also fell to be sentenced for the 2017 peso theft.
David Watson, prosecuting, told the court the defendant had been left unsupervised in the flat of Marilyn Somers while he visited a shop to buy teabags.
He later noticed an envelope containing Pesos, said to have been worth around £540, at the time had gone missing.
Whalley denied taking the money when questioned by her acquaintance of two years.
Mr Watson said: "Mr Somers made his own enquiries at a local branch of Thomas Cook where he was told a female matching the defendant's appearance had been in the branch the day after [his money had gone missing] trying to exchange Pesos but had been unable to do so."
When questioned by police, Whalley denied knowing her victim, visiting his flat or featuring in Thomas Cook CCTV obtained by officers.
Whalley, formerly of Rock Ferry , continued to deny theft but was convicted after a trial at Wirral Magistrates' Court in June.
Paul Davison, defending Whalley, said his client had been a victim of domestic abuse in the past and had lived in shelters and been homeless at various points over recent years.
He added his client, who gave birth to her fourth child in July, had been co-operating with support agencies since she was handed the suspended sentence last year.
Judge Robert Warnock said he could find no reason not to jail Whalley considering her record of offences, including the "unpleasant" Peso theft.
He activated seven months of her suspended sentence and gave her two further months for the theft of Pesos, jailing her for a total of nine months.
