A WOMAN who smashed up a Wetherspoons pub in Warrington town centre less than a fortnight after being spared prison has been jailed.

Lesley Ann Murphy was handed a suspended prison sentence at Warrington Magistrates Court last month after stealing and using a bank card before pinching items from a parked car.

Only 12 days later, she committed further offences which have now landed her behind bars.

The 45-year-old, of Museum Street in the town centre, caused damage to a fire exit door at the Looking Glass on Buttermarket Street while ‘using threatening and abusive behaviour’ during an incident on Saturday, September 25.

Appearing at the same court on Monday, September 27, she admitted criminal damage, affray and breaching a suspended sentence and was jailed for 26 weeks.

Murphy was also told to pay a victim surcharge of £128.

The defendant had been handed a 20-week imprisonment suspended for 18 months on September 13 after being pleading guilty to two counts of theft, two charges of fraud and interfering with a motor vehicle.

This conviction came after she stole a bank card on Princess Street in Sankey Bridges during an incident in June, then used the card to buy items from shops on Lovely Lane.

Nine days later, Murphy took a phone, cash and clothes from a parked car on Cartright Street in Whitecross.

These offences put her in breach of a six-month conditional discharge imposed for theft in January after she stole goods from the Disney Store in Golden Square Shopping Centre.

Murphy was previously jailed for assisting an offender in connection with the brutal murder of Malcolm Crompton.

The 39-year-old homeless man was stabbed 100 times at a flat on Leicester Street in Whitecross in May 2004 before being pushed into Sankey Brook in a wheelie bin, where he drowned in the water.

Stephen Wood and Philip Hubbersty were jailed for life with minimum terms of 20 and 19 years respectively after being convicted of his murder.

Murphy, who was Hubbersty’s girlfriend, cleaned the apartment – the home of Alan Warburton – while the three men transported the victim to the canal.

She was handed 18 months in jail at Chester Crown Court in 2005 after admitting assisting an offender.

Warburton was found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the attack and was jailed for seven years.