A WOMAN who had clocked up a huge list of 226 offences – and first took heroin when she was just 14 – has been jailed for 16 weeks after breaching a suspended prison sentence.
Penny Piggott, a serial offender who was given an antisocial behaviour order in 2010 because of "nuisance" thefts, was locked up after Grimsby magistrates condemned her "appalling record".
Piggott, 40, of Wellington Street, Grimsby, admitted theft from Sainsbury's in St Peter's Avenue, Cleethorpes, on September 13.
She admitted breaching a 26-week suspended prison sentence imposed on July 31 for assault and four theft offences.
Probation services officer Martin Fairbank told the court that Piggott had made "no progress whatsoever" on a community order.
Andrea Wilkes, mitigating, said mother-of-five Piggott had suffered accommodation problems since being released from prison in July.
"She has been homeless and has been living out on the streets," said Miss Wilkes.
"Each day was a fight over where she was going to live and what she was going to eat.
"She was using heroin from the age of 14 and became addicted to it. Any money she got was used on heroin.
"If she had no money from benefit, she would steal to fund that habit."
Unemployed Piggott was now drug-free and alcohol-free. She had not come before the court for any other offences since sentence was originally deferred in November.
The magistrates told Piggott she was being jailed because she had failed to comply with any aspect of her community order and had an "appalling record" for such matters.
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