A 47-YEAR-OLD man from Kidderminster admitted stealing nearly £100 worth of chocolate from Tesco.

Jason Baker, of Lion Street, pleaded guilty to theft when he appeared at Kidderminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday (July 2).

He stole chocolate to the value of £95.50 from the supermarket in Bewdley Hill on September 8 last year.

The defendant also admitted stealing three beef joints worth £59.95 from Tesco in Castle Road, Kidderminster on May 31 this year.

Baker was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay compensation of £155.45.

In a separate case on Tuesday, a Kidderminster man was fined £150 for breaching a domestic violence protection order the day after it was made.

Nigel Roberts, aged 55, of Glastonbury Close, admitted meeting with Julie Brown at the Red Man pub in Kidderminster on June 27, which he was prohibited from doing by a domestic violence order made on June 26.

Magistrates fined him £150.

A man from Kidderminster admitted stealing electrical items worth a total of £289 from Tesco.

David Ashbery, aged 37, of James Road, stole a Boombox speaker, TV satellite box, electrical items worth £120 and a shaver between May 10 and May 24.

He pleaded guilty to four counts of theft.

Ashbery was given a 12-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay compensation of £289.

Nathan Butler, of Lower Heath, Stourport, admitted stealing a car worth £2,600 from a James Walford on March 4 this year.

The 23-year-old pleaded guilty to theft and was given a two-month curfew with electronic monitoring.

In another case, Dean Buckley, of Waterside Grange in Kidderminster, pleaded guilty to stealing eight bottles of gin from Aldi.

The 42-year-old stole £79 worth of gin from Aldi in Kidderminster on June 11, as well as a bottle of Jack Daniels worth £23 from Tesco on May 21.

Buckley was given a 12-month conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £23 in compensation.