Mum jailed for six months– for wearing pair of looted shorts | Manchester Evening News - menmedia.co.uk
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A mum-of-two who slept through the riots will spend the next five months behind bars – because she accepted a pair of looted shorts the morning after.
Ursula Nevin was in bed at home when city centre shops were ransacked by vandals.
Her housemate Gemma Corbett, 24, returned from the mass crime spree with £629 of clothing and accessories from the upmarket Vans store.
The next day, Nevin picked out a pair of shorts from the haul, tried them on and decided to keep them.
Hours later, police raided the women’s house in Stretford.
Nevin was arrested for handling stolen goods. Now she has been jailed for five months after pleading guilty at Manchester magistrates’ court.