A burgling mum wept as she was led to the cells for a jail term which means she might not see her father alive again.
Lisa Fletcher and her then partner Lee Owens stole more than £1,200 of stock from an independent shop in Maghull last year. Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday that the couple were caught after an off duty police officer spotted them in a restaurant and recognised them from CCTV.
Ian Criddle, prosecuting, said the pair targeted Ryat Menswear on Moreton Way on November 21, waiting until the owner went out to get lunch before ransacking the shop in the space of a minute. He said they took £1,285 in stock from the shop.
