A 27-year-old man who admitted obtaining £46 worth of goods using someone else's bank card has been jailed for a total of five months at Selkirk Sheriff Court.
Gary Stewart was also sentenced for three counts of reset in July when he was found in possession of items which had been stolen the day before.
Stewart admitted using the card through contactless transactions on two occasions to obtain goods to the value of £46 from McColl's in Gala Park, Galashiels on April 11.
Sheriff Peter Paterson took into account that Stewart had already spent 19 weeks on remand for the reset offences explaining he would have imposed a 14 months jail sentence.
Instead Stewart - whose last known address was in Kelso - was sentenced to five months in prison.
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