A 23-year-old Sutton man has been jailed for ten weeks because of his “total disregard” of previous court orders.

Fred Smith was told by Skipton magistrates on Friday they were revoking an earlier court order and re-sentencing him for offences of taking a car without the owner’s consent and driving it while unfit through drink.

Smith, of Greenroyd Mills, had admitted breaking the curfew order imposed by magistrates in March 11 times.

The order, which in itself had replaced an earlier breached order of unpaid work, had required Smith to be at home between 7pm and 7am,every day of the week until July 12.

In mitigation, Ruth Weir said Smith was a housing association tenant at Greenroyd Mills and had been out getting money for the electricity meter when he had overrun his curfew.

On other occasions, he had been suffering from appendicitis and had been in hospital.

But magistrates told Smith he would be sentenced to ten weeks each for the original offences of taking a car from a garage forecourt in Sutton in September and driving it while unfit, to run concurrently.

There was no order for costs.