A YOUNG York heroin addict has been locked up for the second time this year for shoplifting.

Peter David Orrey, 20, was released from a young offenders institution 14 days before he began his latest round of stealing from shops in the city, York Magistrates heard.

They sent him back behind bars to serve 31 days unserved of his previous sentence plus 28 days for three new offences.

Orrey, of Danebury Drive, Acomb, pleaded guilty to stealing 100 Regal cigarettes from the Spar shop in Acomb Road, a 100 Lambert & Butler cigarettes from Dillons, Foxwood, and 200 Benson & Hedges cigarettes from Jackson's, Woodthorpe.

He asked for five more thefts of cigarettes from shops, committed before his first sentence, to be taken into consideration.

Prosecuting, Silvester Graham, said that on March 29 he was caught on CCTV in the Spar shop and committed the other two thefts the following day.

On each occasion he asked a shop assistant for cigarettes and when they were placed on the counter took them out of the shop without paying for them.

For Orrey, John Howard said he had been a heroin addict for four years and stole the cigarettes to raise the money to fund his habit.

On March 15 he was released after serving part of a three-month sentence imposed on January 31 for shoplifting.

The family is now planning to move out of York.

The court heard that he was still subject to the old sentence until April 29.