A Bristol man who stole women's clothing has been given a six-month community order.

David Key was caught at the Superdry store on Park Street. Key, 21, of Ship Lane in the city centre, was apprehended by manager Danny Thorne on June 30 who remembered him from earlier CCTV footage.

Prosecuting, Mike Duffy said: "Mr Thorne locked the doors and detained him inside."

Bristol Magistrates Court heard that before seeing the footage, Key told police he had picked up a jacket and a pair of jeans and went to try them on. He also picked up the two women's jackets, worth £89.98, and then went upstairs with them.

But two coat hangers and electronic tags were found in the changing room, and CCTV shows Key reaching out of the fitting room, looking around the shop and grabbing the two jackets.

When he dropped the clothes off upstairs he left behind the men's garments, but kept the two jackets.

The court also heard that on Tuesday staff at Boots in the Mall Galleries caught Key stuffing toiletries worth £4.73 into his pockets, despite having more than £25 cash on him. Key, who is subject to a six-month community order made against him in March for assaulting an Asda security guard, admitted both the charges.

Defending, his solicitor Paul Stevens said: "He is on benefits which have been cut. He used to be on £101.40 a fortnight, but this is now £60.88." Mr Stevens added that the benefits office had agreed he couldn't live on this sum and was going to increase his payments. He said Key didn't have drink or drug problems, it was a shortage of money.

Sentencing, presiding magistrate Ben Oograh said: "Your offending is serious enough for a community sentence. We make this for six months, with a curfew order from 7am to 7pm for a period of 12 weeks."

Key was also ordered to repay the £89.98 to the shop, a well as £50 for the earlier assault.