A shoplifter has finally been locked up after 147 crimes ending in "an absolute torrent" around Newark.
Jay Parkinson committed so many offences in recent months that a recorder asked: "What on earth was the total amount of goods involved?"
The answer to that question was that stolen items were worth £1,638. They ranged from food to cleaning goods and clothes, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
Parkinson, 37, was jailed for 33 months and banned for five years from entering shops in Newark town centre. But she has been allowed to enter some stores to get food, medication and cigarettes.
Recorder Collingwood Thompson QC told her: "They were obviously committed with some skill as you were not detected at the time.
"You have amassed a very significant criminal record over a very short time. You have left this court with absolutely no choice as to how to deal with you. Every disposal appears to have been tried.
"There has been an absolute torrent of offending from September to February."
The recorder heard that 37 offences were admitted by Parkinson of London Road, Newark. These ended last month.
She was also subject to a suspended sentence and two conditional discharges.
Leanne Summers, prosecuting, said that Parkinson already had 110 crimes on her record, including "96 theft and kindred offences." The first was in 2010.
Miss Summers told the court: "She stated that she stole to live and eat and also fund a drug habit which became worse."
Denney Lau, mitigating, said that she had severe domestic problems and began to use "illicit substances."
On occasions, a man stood outside shops "watching while she goes in and steals," he told the recorder.
Mr Lau continued: "She received £190 a month in universal credit, pays £105 for accommodation and £36 council tax."
While in prison awaiting sentence, she had been working with the drug service.
There was a chance that she will get "rehabilitation placement in the community" when she is freed.
Mr Lau said: "She is aware she has caused a lot of trouble in the Newark area."
She accepted the terms of the criminal behaviour order which bars her from the stores.
But she hopes that eventually she will regain the trust of shopkeepers and will be allowed to use them again, added Mr Lau.
