A sweet-toothed shoplifter who stole more than £200 of chocolate and whisky was caught after being spotted in a car parked on double yellow lines.

Prolific Herne Bay thief Naomi Denton-Younger was a passenger in the vehicle when she was arrested by police last Wednesday.

Although she initially provided officers with a false name, the local PC recognised the 31-year-old from CCTV footage of four thefts close to the town centre.

Denton-Younger swiped 53 chocolate bars worth £105 from the Co-op in Mortimer Street on Boxing Day.

At about 7pm on December 27, she then took three bottles of whisky - also worth more than £100 - and ran out of the Tesco store in Sea Street without paying for them.

She targeted the Morrisons store in Beach Street at 8pm on January 3 and put two joints of beef worth £36 into a bag before leaving the supermarket.

And Denton-Younger then returned to the Tesco in Sea Street at about 9.45pm on January 4 and hid seven packs of fresh salmon in her jacket and left without paying again.

Denton-Younger, of High Street in Herne Bay, was charged with four counts of shoplifting, resisting arrest and refusing to provide a sample for class A drug testing.

She admitted the offences at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court on Thursday where she was sentenced to a 54-week custodial sentence.

Investigating officer PC David Cross said: "Naomi Denton-Younger is a prolific shoplifter in the Herne Bay area and such behaviour often has a detrimental effect on local businesses and the wider community.

"The officers who worked on this case were determined to bring her before the courts and we are pleased she has been given a custodial sentence and can no longer continue her criminal behaviour."