A woman has been sentenced to jail after being caught on CCTV stealing bouquets from a 14-year-old boy's grave.
Leanne Slater, 39, stole the flowers from the Durham Road Cemetery in Stockton-on-Tees on June 7 last year, with the intention of selling them.
She denied the claims but was caught on video, and was later detained by the mother of the boy whose grave she stole from, Donna Dixon.
Grieving mother Donna, 45, had visited the cemetery the same afternoon to pay her respects to her son, who died suddenly in 2012.
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Slater was confronted after Keiran's childhood friend, Jessica Hart, received a Facebook message containing a picture of Slater carrying the stolen bouquets and passed it on to Ms Dixon.
Slater argued with the judge and sobbed in court when it was revealed that she was in breach of a previous suspended sentence for trying to steal an elderly woman's handbag in Hartlepool.
Prosecutor Uzma Khan said that Slater had also tried to steal an elderly woman's handbag while out shopping in Hartlepool on April 10.
The 58-year-old woman, who was attacked in a car park near Fens shops, in Hartlepool, was left with gravel-rash and a sore hip after she was 'pulled to the floor and dragged around'.
Slater was handed a three-year and ten-month prison term for the theft of the flowers, the attempted robbery and the breach of a suspended sentence order.
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