A serial shoplifter has been jailed after targeting the same store twice in one day during her quest for cash.
Nicola Hanratty paid a visit to B&M in Portlethen on November 8 and made off with a pile of toiletries and fragrances without paying.
Not content with just one haul, she returned later that day to grab even more goods.
The 43-year-old appeared at Aberdeen Sheriff Court yesterday, which heard that she had pilfered nearly £100 worth of goods between the two trips.
More than £77 of this was later recovered by police.
Solicitor Lynn Bentley said, that at the time of the crimes, her client had been awaiting approval to join a methadone programme and had just applied for Universal Credit.
She said: “The first payment would be on February 6, so she was without an income.”
After the new year Hanratty turned to crime once more, this time targeting Semi-Chem on Union Street on January 16 and stealing more than £50 in household goods.
But she was unknowingly caught in the act by CCTV, and while she was apprehended a short time after, police were unable to recover any of the stolen items.
After admitting to the crimes Hanratty, of Hetherwick Road in Kincorth, was sentenced to three months in prison by Sheriff Andrew Miller.